BEWARE BLACK AMERICANS! DON’T BE FOOLED BY TRUMP’S LIE ABOUT BEING THE PRESIDENT WHO DID MORE FOR THE BLACKS THAN PRESIDENT LINCOLN. THAT SOUNDS CRAZY, IS INACCURATE, AND MANIPULATIVE. HE CONSISTENTLY TALKS TO AND SEES THE BLACK COMMUNITY THROUGH A NEGATIVE, STEREOTYPICAL LENS.
(Opinion, Jan. 15, David Leonhardt and Ian Prasad Philbrick)
- Trump’s real-estate company tried to avoid renting apartments to African-Americans in the 1970s
- In 1989, Trump took out an ad calling for the death penalty for the Central Park 5. He continued to refer to these men of color as guilty, even 15 years after they were exonerated by DNA evidence,
- In 2012, he made unfounded accusations that the first black US President had a fake birth certificate and was not a US citizen
- Speaks to blacks as one community, that “lives in poverty, have schools that are no good, and they have no jobs.”
- He exaggerates urban crime statistics then labels black cities as crime-ridden
- Has criticized prominent African-Americans for being unpatriotic, ungrateful and disrespectful.
- He called some of those who marched alongside white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., last August “very fine people.”
- He refused to disavow the support of former leader of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke
- Chose white nationalists, like Steve Bannon, to serve in his administration.
- Supports candidates who support voter suppression policies in black communities
- He is telling blacks that he is not a felon, but rather the victim of a justice system that is weaponized against him, like it is weaponized against them. It’s another example of how he views blacks as gullible and not smart.
Freedom is on the ballot. Minority black and LGBTQ communities stand to suffer discrimination, violence, and marginalization if Donald Trump becomes president again. The people he has announced will be part of his administration are known racists. He appoints white Christian nationalist judges. Hopefully, blacks stick with Democrats and avoid a return to a Jim Crowe America
Powered a historic economic recovery that created 2.6 million jobs for Black workers—and achieved both the lowest Black unemployment rate on record and the lowest gap between Black and White unemployment on record. ( White House.gov, Feb. 2024).
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