Trump’s ‘Black Outreach’ Is Backfiring
August 31, 2016 10:58 a.m.
By Ed Kilgore
... he is rather conspicuously conducting it via nearly all-white campaign appearances in nearly all-white communities ...
... Trump’s message ... is familiar to those accustomed to conservative agitprop on race: Black folks are dupes for a Democratic Party that has enslaved them on a “plantation” where they give up their freedom and any chance at dignity or equality in exchange for the idle life of welfare beneficiaries ...
... it’s probably not a coincidence that Trump’s view of black people as lazy freedom-despising dependents living in a hellish prison built of their own pathologies happens to coincide with that of white racists ...
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I learned about racism from my grandmother and grandfather who lived near Stone Mountain, Ga.
In the 60's in America, Vietnam and Thailand I met racism.
In the 70's Nixon and Atwater intoduced me to a "Southern Strategy" designed to divide a nation's races in an extremely racist manner.
In the *80's 'trickle down economics', voodoo economics and charges of all black people being "welfare queens" were all brought to us by that Rethuglican hero, Ronald Wilson Reagan's administration. Many to come later in the american racist parade 'made their bones' during this time---cheney et al.
In the 90's, a "kinder gentler america" that turned out to mean a harsher meaner america for many, Guess who? ALSO mistakes were made that true have been admitted as such, but not rectfied and in fact have made things worse in the area of race concerning bullshit incarceration to provide bodies for a prison for profit scheme that has not abated and in the telecommunications field, MSM mainly
In 2000-2004 Ronald Reagans racist legacy was molded, perfected, tried out in a war based on lies that destroyed another country and over 100,000 innocent civilians and that was also let loose on America with thousands rising up in the new klan and tea party(s) to proclaim an america that was for whites only again.
In 2008, surprise!!! Hope sprang anew with the election of Barack Hussein Obama......hope soon to be dashed on the rocks of racist RW America, the continuing murder, killing and execution of young unarmed men women and children of color. The RW obstruction of many present administration plans that would have helped all americans, even those too stupid to realize it, speaks volumns to just how hateful, spiteful and self defeating amerikkkan racism is.
In 2016 those too stupid to realize it finally find their 'perfect' candidate of division. A fascist, racist demagogue to lead those too stupid to understand the real america to a place that will be a hell for ALL.
Good luck america
