Good to have a Trumpster tells us what's what in the minds of black Americans.
Phew, what a relief.
You're used to having Joe Biden do that, Mac?
As pathetic as he is, it's better than a Trumpster.
Better yet, neither should, but both ends just love showing us how similar they are.
If they're so similar then why in God's name are blacks giving political power to one Party without getting much of anything in return? That's just plain idiotic!
Not if you (honestly) look at the alternative.
It's a question of political power, Mac! You don't have any if you don't get anything in return for your vote. If blacks vote for Democrats simply because they've always voted for Democrats then they've rendered themselves powerless. Let's be honest here...most Democratic politicians show up in poor neighborhoods when they're running for office and then aren't to be seen until the next election. You want to get results? Organize and consolidate your political power. The Irish did it. Jews did as well. Hispanics are doing it now. Demand results or you're taking your votes elsewhere and then DO SO!
Right now our hands are a tied. We cant have that incompetent fuckup in the white house any longer with his dog whistles to white racists. When the repubs produce a non sell out Black person or a non racist white person for POTUS then and only then will they get my vote.
You only wish that were true. He wasn’t racist until he starting running for president on the gop ticket. Imagine that!
For those wanting the truth, here is a taste with links for you. Don’t believe other crap put out there.-
When I was Manhattan Borough president and president of the New York City Council, I asked him numerous times to help black or Hispanic groups, and he always came through, many times without publicity. When a hurricane ravished Puerto Rico in the mid 1980s, I asked many big companies to give various forms of assistance — but the problem was how to get all of this aid down to Puerto Rico. I called Donald Trump, and he provided us with a 727 jet to take all of the donated material down to the island, and he didn’t ask for any publicity for that generous act.
My friend,
Rev. Floyd Flake, the minister of the largest black church in Queens, asked for some help for his senior center. Again, I called Donald Trump and he wrote a big check.
One day I met an African American woman on the street with her two adorable young kids. She was homeless, and I gave her some money — and then asked Donald to get her into some low-income housing in Queens. He came through, and did so without any fanfare.
The president is honest and doesn’t parse his words, like most politicians, and that drives the media crazy. But his honesty is refreshing, and he is usually right, if not always diplomatic.
thehill.com
Meanwhile, Trump invited celebrities to stay at Mar-a-Lago, as his personal guests, including a famous interracial couple:
Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley in 1994 (right before they married)—which attracted paparazzi.
The writer for New York Magazine asked somebody at Palm Beach: “Was Donald Trump ever really popular there?” The answer: “No, not really.” The interviewer: “Why, too vulgar?” And the person replied: “Oh no, not at all. He would have these parties and everyone would come, but then he wouldn’t accept invitations back to their houses.”
At an elegant dinner party, one member of a social club (unattended by Trump), a woman,
spoke frankly to the writer from New York Magazine: “
Of course we’re prejudiced down here; of course we discriminate.” She explained: “But people get the wrong idea. It’s not that we have anything against all these others [minorities]. We simply want to be with people like ourselves. Our own kind. What’s wrong with that?”
But then, in 1995, Donald Trump opened up
Mar-a-Lago as a brand new social club. Promptly, the Palm Beach town council tried to impose restrictions on membership, party attendance, photography, etc. But suddenly,
Trump undercut them “with
a searing attack, claiming that local officials seemed to accept the established private clubs in town that had
excluded Jews and Blacks while imposing tough rules on his inclusive one.”
To scorn them, in the fall of 1996 Trump’s lawyer sent copies of classic
movies on discriminationto each member of the Palm Beach town council. The movies were A Gentleman’s Agreement, about a journalist
exposing anti-Semitism in New York, and the other one was Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, about a white woman who brings
her black fiancé to meet her white parents.
In December 1996, Donald Trump
filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Palm Beach, alleging that the town was discriminating against Mar-a-Lago, partly because Trump’s “
Mar-a-Lago was open to Jews and African-Americans.” The lawsuit sought $100 million in damages.
Despite some misgivings, the national director of the
Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, was pleased that Trump denounced discriminatory policies at social clubs. Foxman said that Trump had exposed Palm Beach for “its seamier side of
discrimination. It has an impact.”...
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Meanwhile, since the 1980s, an organization that
Jesse Jackson founded and still chaired, Operation PUSH, carried out boycotts of businesses to pressure them to provide more
job opportunities and housing for black people. In 1996, Jackson merged PUSH with another non-profit organization he had founded. The Rainbow/PUSH Coalition would continue to do activism on social justice and civil rights.
To help, Donald Trump agreed to give office space in The Trump Building at 40 Wall Street, free of charge, so that Jesse Jackson could have a prominent position from which
to pressure corporations to hire and promote African Americans. This central location was across the street from the New York Stock Exchange. At the time, Wall Street was occupied mostly by white people, with nearly no African Americans. As
reported by the New York Times, “Jackson said his new office would seek to cajole, persuade and pressure American companies to hire and promote more blacks and members of
other minorities, name more of them to corporate boards and award more business to companies owned by members of minorities.”
(My note, they had been pushed out of the area due to increasing rents)
The media complained that Trump said "the blacks" -- yet writers ignored the many times when Trump supported, praised and befriended African Americans.
www.newstandardpress.com
Much more at the links