In 1970 about 11% of Blacks were Middle class or better. In 2016 about 76% of Blacks are Middle class or better. This means that since civil rights took hold, 65% of Blacks have gone from poverty to the Middle class. What the perception Donald Trump is speaking too, and why he is speaking to it, is the ignorance of Whites toward Blacks caused by the legacy of segregation. That is most Whites still do not associate or know any Black person socially. Trump is playing on that ignorance to get the votes of Whites, who may not like the “N” word but still think of Blacks as “those people”.
That is the main reason middle class Blacks are more likely to be harmed by crime than middle class Whites is segregation and the nature of “minority” neighborhoods. Because there are so many more Whites than Blacks in America, segregation has allowed for White neighborhoods by class. But because Blacks make up about 13% of the population, in a Black neighborhood you will have all classes including the undesirables. So today even though 3 out of 4 people in a most Black neighborhoods are Middle class or higher, unlike a White neighborhood that is also segregated by class, undesirables will live in the same neighborhoods as Middle class and wealthy Blacks.
And 9-11 didnt happen until he came along either. And the whole 11 million undocumented in the country, they all suddenly materialized in Arizona and Jan Brewer suddenly realized we MUST pass our own State immigration law our Border is porous because of this President. And the rest of the GOP followed suit because all of a sudden Emergency Rooms were treating people with medical emergencies who had nowhere else to go. A lot of important things happened in Dixiecrat Never Never Land the instant we elected a Black President.
Trump responds: “Many people are saying that Obama’s promoting racism and division…playing the race card…like a ‘foreign’ born terrorist! Many people are talking. That’s what I’ve heard.”
I had heard of it, though it was a little beyond my comprehension at 8 years old, but even in White McWhiteville, I knew that the Black community had been segregated until about 15 years before I was born…
Indeed. Did anyone read David Brooks, claiming today that Hillary is way too “20th century” in her campaigning, not realizing that “politics is now entertainment.” !!!
I don’t know. That would be about third grade? I’m pretty sure I remember it having been touched on at least in the context of things like Martin Luther King Day by that grade level.
Couldn’t agree more. I’ve screwed up twice that way myself. As a college student in 1980, I was active in “Students for Kennedy,” working against Carter. It brought us Ray-gun. Then, even as a grown man, I backed Nader over Gore, and got Bushitler. Young folks out there, listen and learn from my experience. I love Bernie’s politics but there ain’t but one alternative to Drumpf.
I’ll admit when it comes to history stuff I learned when I was young I have a hard time separating stuff I picked up in school and stuff I picked up having a high school history teacher for a father, but I do remember clearly covering things like de facto and de juro discrimination in elementary school civics. Although thinking about it that would have been more 4th or 5th grade than third and it would, admittedly, have been a parochial school, although the text books were all old copies from the local public school district, in north Omaha as opposed to the inner part of a larger city.
