What Donalds and others are saying is that faith, discipline, hard work, dedication to family, and inner strength permit Americans — including black Americans — to thrive and advance even in hard times. In contrast, the message of Sharpton and the Democratic Party discourages and disables people by telling them that they are victims unable to help themselves.
Oh good grief. You completely rephrased what the guy said, adding detail and dropping the offensive part. He didn’t say that. Jim Crow equals hard times? Diminishes it quite a bit. Slavery perhaps an inconvenience but at least they had jobs of a sort.