Read Sowell’s latest piece for some answers:
http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/08/18/trump-and-blacks-n2207012
Focus on empowerment: school choice, fewer illegals taking jobs. For starters. I think K-12 school choice alone wins big for a lot of blacks who want their kids out of dead-end inner city schools and are sitting on long waiting lists for charter schools. Big pool of voters there, I’d bet.
>>Focus on empowerment: school choice, fewer illegals taking jobs.<<
School choice is a big one because the Dems have made it clear that they’ll fight it at every opportunity even though black parents in the center cities are desperate for better schooling for their children.
But Trump is also targeting the “law and order” message to blacks and that could be an even bigger issue given the way Obama’s anti-police statements have roiled the inner cities.
School choice is nice, but first your kids have to survive to school age, and then they’ve got to be able to get to school safely.
I think most black parents will find Trump’s law and order message not only appealing, but right now absolutely a priority. I think they want the police back patrolling their streets. And if he can get his message out to them, he’ll garner a lot of black votes, justifiably.
Furthermore, if he wins and actually makes the streets safer and makes charter schools easier to get into, he could turn the black vote around for the foreseeable future. That, of course, will be tough to do, but I think it can be done. Giuliani proved that in NY City.