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    Donald Trump Calls The Slavery Era A Good Time Before Reaching Out To Black Voters

    Donald Trump Calls The Slavery Era A Good Time Before Reaching Out To Black Voters

    Yup, that will turn the tide with African-Americans.
    08/17/2016 07:00 pm ET

    Julia Craven Reporter, The Huffington Post

    Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump tried to improve his abysmal image with black voters during a Wisconsin trip on Tuesday. But he fell flat even before he got started, with some tone-deaf comments to the La Crosse Tribune.

    Buried deep in that interview was a very Trumpian idea of what periods in American history were great and what made them so awesome:

    Trump, whose campaign slogan is “Make America Great Again!” said he views the 1980s as the time when things were good for the nation, though he also hearkened back to the late 1700s and early 1800s.

    “The industrial revolution was certainly ― in terms of economically ― that was when we started to grow,” Trump said. “I liked the Ronald Reagan years. I thought the country had a wonderful, strong image.”

    There’s a lot to unpack in those racially insensitive comments.

    The Industrial Revolution may have been a great time for white Protestant cisgender men. For everybody else, the memories are not so good. Lest Trump has forgotten, black people were enslaved in the U.S. until the 1860s. Afterward, strict Jim Crow laws barred them from freely sharing public spaces with white people, essentially legalized lynchings and effectively disenfranchised black voters. It wasn’t until the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that many black Americans were truly able to cast ballots.

    As for the 1980s under President Reagan, that’s when the crack cocaine epidemic swept through many black communities, and the war on drugs drove incarceration rates for black people through the roof.

    Though Trump made clear that he was focusing on the economic benefits of the Industrial Revolution, he failed to note how much that revolution was built on the backs of enslaved Africans in cotton fields.

    Those remarks show once again why Trump ― who was polling at zero percent of the black vote in July ― has so much trouble in appealing to African-American voters, according to Brandon Weathersby, communications director of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.

    “There has not been a full-throated, full-hearted effort to make the case to people of color of what Donald Trump will do for them and do for their community,” Weathersby told The Huffington Post.

    On Tuesday night, Trump tried to argue ― to a mostly white crowd in West Bend, Wisconsin ― that he is the candidate who will best represent the interests of black Americans.

    The GOP nominee vowed to restore “law and order” via “more law enforcement, more community engagement, more effective policing is what our country needs.”

    “Those peddling the narrative of cops as a racist force in our society ― a narrative supported with a nod by my opponent ― share directly in the responsibility for the unrest in Milwaukee, and many other places within our country,” Trump said. “They have fostered the dangerous anti-police atmosphere in America.”

    “Every time we rush to judgment with false facts and narratives ― whether in Ferguson or in Baltimore ― and foment further unrest,” he continued, “we do a direct disservice to poor African-American residents who are hurt by the high crime in their communities.”

    West Bend is about 40 miles north of Milwaukee, the most racially segregated major metropolitan area in the country and a city that has been shaken by violent protests following the death of Sylville Smith. The 23-year-old black man was shot and killed by Milwaukee police on Saturday.

    The protests were driven by more than Smith’s death and police abuse. Black residents also expressed anger over destructively high incarceration rates, poorly funded schools and much else.

    But Trump’s speech focused mainly on bettering life for police officers and essentially accused black people of causing problems by raising their voices.

    It didn’t sound like Trump had heard what African-Americans were saying at all.

    “It really sounds like Donald Trump just sees people of color [and] communities of color as potential votes,” Weathersby said.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b0fd5a2f40ee2d
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    The Lacrosse Tribune article from their interview with Donald Trump referenced in the above Huff Post article.

    Donald Trump tells La Crosse Tribune: 'Temperament is one of my greatest assets'

    CHRIS HUBBUCH 21 hrs ago

    Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Tuesday America needs a president with a “strong temperament” and firm tone, and, despite widespread criticism, he is the candidate who has it.

    “I think temperament is one of my greatest assets. I’ve won all my life, I’ve been winning,” Trump said during an interview with the La Crosse Tribune. “I always thought that temperament — I mean I have always felt — and been told — that my single greatest strength is temperament.”

    Trump critics — including some prominent Republicans — have said he doesn’t have the temperament to be president. Only 17 percent of respondents to an NBC News poll released Tuesday thought he had the “personality and temperament to serve.” Among those who identified as Republicans, 19 percent thought he was fit to serve.

    The real estate mogul — who in recent weeks lashed out at the parents of a Muslim soldier who died in Iraq and engaged in public feuds with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and other members of his party — suggested his Democratic rival lacks a steady hand.

    “I actually think that Hillary Clinton doesn’t have a good temperament. I thinks she’s very unstable in certain ways,” he said. “I don’t think she has what it takes to make our country into and turn our country into a winner again.”

    Trump was in La Crosse Tuesday for a $2,700 per-plate fundraiser at the Riverside Center. Earlier in the day he met with former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson and Logistics Health founder Don Weber at Weber’s Charmant Hotel.

    Mary Jo Werner, a partner with the consulting, tax and accounting firm WIPFLI, said about 100 people attended the lunch, where Trump spoke for about 15 minutes about the economy, immigration and law and order.

    Werner, who said she supported Trump before the event, went “to hear what he had to say with my own ears, unedited.”

    “It was not loud and outspoken,” she said. “It was very businesslike.”

    Tuesday marked Trump’s first visit to La Crosse since April 4, when he rallied supporters ahead of the GOP primary. Sen. Ted Cruz won the state, though Trump carried the western part.

    A Marquette Law School poll released last week showed Trump trailing Clinton by 15 points among likely voters. He fares worse with female voters.

    Trump is confident he can win over those women in the 83 days before the November election.

    “All I can do is talk about safety, talk about security, talk about women’s issues, which I’m very happy to do,” he said. “But I think we’re going to do very well. I think in the end we’re going to come out very nicely.”
    Tax plan to have ‘immediate’ impact

    Trump said his tax plan, which the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center has estimated would reduce federal revenues by $9.5 trillion over the first decade — would not require cuts to balance the budget because it would spur immediate economic growth.

    “I think it will be very close to immediate,” he said. “Right now companies are leaving because the taxes are so high. We’re the highest industrialized nation in the world in taxes. And I think it’s going to have an immediate effect.”

    But he promised to trim the $3.8 trillion budget anyway.

    “I’m not talking about the cuts. Of course I’m going to make cuts,” he said. “In many different ways, the country is very fat with waste. It’s waste, fraud and abuse.”

    Trump suggested the Department of Education, which this year has a $70.7 billion discretionary budget, and the Environmental Protection Agency which runs on about $8.6 billion. For comparison, the nation spends about $615 billion on defense and $590 billion on Medicare.

    “If you look at the Department of Education, if you look at the department of environmental protection, these are massive bureaucracies that have tremendous room for cutting. Tremendous.”
    Better times?

    Trump, whose campaign slogan is “Make America Great Again!” said he views the 1980s as the time when things were good for the nation, though he also hearkened back to the late 1700s and early 1800s.

    “The industrial revolution was certainly — in terms of economically — that was when we started to grow,” Trump said. “I liked the Ronald Reagan years. I thought the country had a wonderful, strong image.”

    http://lacrossetribune.com/news/loca...9e736511f.html
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    Though Trump made clear that he was focusing on the economic benefits of the Industrial Revolution, he failed to note how much that revolution was built on the backs of enslaved Africans in cotton fields.

    Those remarks show once again why Trump ― who was polling at zero percent of the black vote in July ― has so much trouble in appealing to African-American voters, according to Brandon Weathersby, communications director of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.
    Well, Trump really should have pointed out that it was the Democratic Party that promoted slavery, enabled slavery, and fought to keep slavery. It was Republicans who ended slavery in the United States. He really should have pointed that out, along with the additional important facts that it was the Democratic Party that ended Reconstruction before it was finished, cancelled slavery reparations for the freed slaves, enacted Black Codes, then Jim Crow Laws, challenged in court the 1866 US Civil Rights Act passed by Republicans to establish equal rights for freed slaves, fought all future efforts by Republicans to pass the full US Civil Rights Act for almost a century, and that it was Democrats who assassinated Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King. And lest I forget, he should have also pointed out that when John F Kennedy was in the US Senate, he voted against the 1957 US Civil Rights Act.

    Yes, he really should have "noted" all that in his interview with the Lacrosse Tribune. That would have been quite the good fodder for the Media Democrats to harp on for a week. I can hear it now, "why is he always so dark, can't he ever say anything nice?"
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    Also, on this subject, the STUPID, SICK, MENTALLY ILL CORRUPT MEDIA, DEMOCRAT PARTY and DEMOCRAT "Civil Rights" leaders have been criticizing Trump for having his speech on law and order in a suburb of Milwaukee. The venue was originally scheduled as a Trump Rally in West Bend, Wisconsin. It was scheduled several days before the Milwaukee Riots. Trump was concerned with the riots in Milwaukee and decided the day before the Rally to change the presentation from a typical Trump Rally to a speech on law and order, the riots, and the underlying cause of the crime, riots, poverty and unemployment black Americans face in our inner cities.

    See, one of the major differences between Trump and Clinton is that Trump actually gets it and wants to solve it while Clinton wants to perpetuate the problems because it keeps black Democratic voters trapped in these ghettos in the cities, dependent on welfare handed out by Democrats, because the Democrats sold out their jobs and opportunities to illegal aliens, refugees, excess immigrants and foreign countries.
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