Donald, you are an utter scream.
Drumpf has evolved from an old-fashioned closet Dixiecrat racist to a tried and true 21st century Repuglican bigot â who better to lead the GOP into oblivion?
There were so many offensive things Trump said tonight. Because of it, this one kind of got lost in the shuffle.
You have to wonder why Trump wasted so much time in the last few weeks trying to appeal to blacks when itâs obvious he has no respect for themâŚor any other person of color other than lily white rich male.
The truth of how he really feels came out tonight almost by the grace of God. He lied about everything else. Thatâs not saying itâs a good thing, but at least we know thatâs how Trump really feels.
The man is so racist. He thinks he can judge everyone else. Heâs the ONLY one who sees the world the way it really is? Really?
There are various types of racists. There are the nuckle dragging Alt-right racists we all hate, but the vast majority are the whites isolated in their gated suburbs who gain all they know about the black experience from their local action news. They donât think of themselves as racist. They think of themselves as fair minded. They treat their black coworkers well, but believe they are rare exceptions, as are black entertainers and athletes. They give to black charities at Christmas time just like they give to staving children overseas.
Donald Trump is trying to appeal to those ignorant suburban racists whose parents escaped from the same inner city slums decades ago and who have long forgotten their own roots. Those crime infested neighborhoods have been bad for a long,long time. They were bad we they were home to the Irish. They were bad when they were home to the Italians. They are bad now that they are home to blacks and Hispanics. Race has nothing to do with it. Nobody ever tells them that for the grace of God go you.
Suburban America is changing as blacks and Hispanics escape from the means streets where they have been confined. That change gives me hope. Sadly many old whites donât notiice the change.
Why isnât Meeks âbowing downâ?!
Trump made it sound like it was âwild in the streetsâ time every time you stepped out of your house. Of course, his entire campaign has been that. Last night he appeared unhinged.
There are a lot of great achievements in Black communities and history. Ditto Hispanics, Orientals, and Native Americans. I seriously doubt Trump could name one thing.
Although we are a minority in the population, the Black voter is the most engaged voter in the electorate, especially, black women who vote at greater rates than any other demographic in the electorate. I donât think he won any last night!
For the 100th time, Trump isnât reaching out to blacks. He is pandering to a white audience by pretending to care while simultaneously reinforcing the most negative stereotypes about African Americans.
The great tell is that when Trump was asked about race, he immediately jumped to the subject of crime. In his mind, race and crime are two sides of the same coin. He sees race only through the lens of his personal safety. Itâs revolting.
But it is typically modern American.
I think this is inaccurate. It is typically Republican leaning aging Reagan Democrats and their offspring and aging Dixiecrats and their offspring.
His view of the minority experience in America as limited to crime ridden ghettos is very 50-60âs type of condescending racism that Harvard Professor (and later UN Ambassador and NY Senator) Daniel Patrick Moynihan popularized in his sociological thought formed in the post WW2 perceptions of Black and Puerto Rican experience in the Northeastern Cities. That is where Trump seems frozen in time, in the one Sociology course he was forced to take at Wharton, and its bleak view of the Melting Pot failed by the new ethnicities not fit for our democracy. And of course his own family perceptions, having been raised by a Klansman.
There are a lot of older white people with that view of African Americans. They didnât all go to Wharton.
I understand. They probably never heard of Moynihan as a Sociology professor either, but his ideas, and the ideas recycled from when the immigrants were Irish, Italian, Jewish and Chinese on the West Coast, are the same as ever: that the Melting Pot just isnt gonna work with these (insert Papist, Drunkards, Dictator Needing, inferior mongrel) not fit to participate in our democracy peoples. I am sure a lot of people who never had a mid sixties Sociology course about the Permanent Underclass harbor the ideas. Seems like certain Australian Media Owners who hire Sex Predators to run their US TV station share the same ideas.