And I am left to wonder, AGAIN, why the black community thinks Trump is out to get them. Trump has always been very open to minority participation and success. That’s why he got an award on the same platform as Rosa Parks and Muhammad Ali. That is why Jesse Jackson partnered with him on minority outreach.
If I were to pick one single aspect of public black life which most opens them to the accusation that they are inferior in some way–to be clear, to racist beliefs–it would be their inability to see, after fifty years, how blatantly they have been used and abused by the Democrat party, which was ALWAYS the party of Jim Crow. There was never a Republican Jim Crow, only Democrat. The Republican Party was founded to end slavery, and to some vastly lesser extent, to end racism. Republicans oppressed Southern whites, but all the racist oppression: 100% Democrat.
And now, not to be Democrat is to hate blacks?
This, to be clear, is why they are told to hate Trump: he isn’t a Democrat, and, they are told, only Democrats protect blacks. But how? What have they REALLY done to protect blacks? Free phones with 150 minutes of speech a month? Slightly better food stamps? Seriously?
As Kanye pointed out, Chicago did not change in ANY WAY in Obama’s 8 years, other than that it got more violent, the economy got worse, and the educational system either stayed the same or also got worse. And Obama was from Chicago. Do you think he gave a shit about the blacks who voted for him? Of course not. He was more worried about the price of arugula.