Opinion: Black millennials who refuse to vote are falling for a political fraud (via latimesopinion)
in Hershey, Pa., “They didn’t come out to vote for Hillary. They didn’t come out. And that was big — so thank you to the African American community.” Had blacks voted in the numbers they did in 2012, Trump would probably not be president. So, his newly announced campaignan appeal to black voters for 2020, rings hollow against his record of racism and litany of lies.
His pitch that black Americans have fared well under his administration and that Democrats have taken them for granted is as solid as a two-legged stool. Criminal justice reform and job growth are now his main talking points for why blacks should be grateful for his leadership. Yet only a few months ago Trump made clear his disdain for the First Step Act, which brought about criminal justice reform and which he signed. “A total dud,” is how one person with knowledge of an Oval Office meeting on campaign strategyof son-in-law Jared Kushner’s bipartisan legislative deal. “He’s really mad that he did it. He’s saying that he’s furious at Jared because Jared is telling him he’s going to get all these votes of all these felons.
Trump’s claim to black job growth during his term in office — besting what President Obama did in eight years — is simply laughable. The in 2018 that black Americans gained 700,000 jobs under Trump, while under Obama’s two terms they gained 2.8 million.As far as arguing that Democrats have taken blacks for granted, I believe it’s the other way around. We black Americans take for granted that Democrats are less racist than Republicans. Trump’s insulting remarks about black people — “
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