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Trump is already doing more for Black people then decades of Democrat rhetoric.
Trump is not even sworn in as President, and is already doing what must be done to actually help the Black race come out from their decades of dysfunction.
Tell me what kinds of fools keep doing the same things when it is proven not to work? Ask yourself why Democrats have changed nothing to get Black people out of the ghettoes? Every single election we heard the same lies and rhetoric of how it's the white republicans holding Black people back.
Well, Trump asked Black people the simple question, what did they have to lose if they elected him. He said that for decades Democrats have done nothing more than keep Black people addicted to welfare programs.
Look who Trump is going to appoint to head up HUD...... BEN CARSON!
Trump's doing the one thing Democrats have refused to. He picked a good Christian Black man who understands first hand how the problems in the Black community are not created by the White man. Ben Carson knows what most intelligent people know.... that these systemic problems are created from the broken family.
There are approximately 72% of black children with no father at home! HELLO! HELLO! HELLO!
I guess Democrats have been deaf and dumb for the past decades. They somehow missed the reality of the problems in the inner cities. They somehow missed the statistics of how many children are being raised with no father at home.
The sickening part is that Democrats KNOW FULL WELL the core reasons for most of the problems in the inner cities. Democrats have used and abused Black people by constantly laying the blame on White Republicans rather than the core problems of broken families.
It's all politics and the Democrats are finally being called out!
You ask, how will Ben Carson fix the huge problem of broken families? It's simple...... it's called actually addressing the problem! It's called shaming dead beat fathers who walk out on their famiies! It's called educating people to the core problems rather than telling Black people that they are victims and to vote for Democrats.
As with most of our nation's problems, it's a moral problem, and nothing more.
Hmm. The black community is more divided now than in previous generations. They have been voting for democrats for over 40 years and next to nothing has changed in the way of prosperity. Unsurprising given the party's history however....
Well, Ben Carson hasn't fixed any of that by being appointed to a future job. So, it would be incorrect to say that Trump has done anything for black people.
Nobody, black or white, need instruct Trump on assisting black people because he has been doing that of his own volition for a long time, shrouded as this information is by popular media. Jesse Jackson himself has attested to this. Becoming President simply means that Trump now has an even greater arsenal from which to expand his work.
Carson is a billionaire, the last President was ....what color?? Oprah is one of, (if not THEE) richest woman in the world (she's really a white girl in blackface...). Many OTHER doctors, scientists, Congressmen and Senators are the same "shade", and MOST of it has happened over the last 40 years! A HUGE majority of "blacks" voted Democratic the last 3 elections, and more WOULD HAVE voted THIS time if the conservative character assassination and Gerrymandering of white districts hadn't been so effective! I don't see any groundswell of blacks moving to the "right" (I hate that designation, it's so.....wrong!)
I don't know Mr. Carson's finances. It was said on the news today that he was a billionaire. Oprah has made her political preference known, though quietly, many times.
No, Oprah is NOT rich because black people have been voting for Democrats, but, laws passed by the Kennedy's and Johnson made the going MUCH easier.
I used the designation "right" because I can see little similarity, today, to the Republican Party of Reagan and before. (Certainly not Lincoln). Therefore, I hesitate to use the " R " term.
You might need to find a new news source. It wasn't even reasonable for Carson to be a billionaire, he is a doctor.
Why not just say that Kennedy and Johnson helped black people instead of bringing up Oprah? The guy was making the argument that Democrats haven't helped black people, not that there aren't successful black people.
But, Republican is more accurate since they are way to the left now.
If we didn't have differences of opinion, we wouldn't need debate sites, now, would we??
I often agree with you, but I don't always HAVE to. I have lived through many years with the Republican Party, even voted Republican a couple of times. If YOU see this organization as the Republican Party, fine. I don't even recognize them as anything vaguely resembling the Party of Lincoln I knew. More like the party of oligarchs that existed circa 1890's. (Even before MY time). Where is Teddy Roosevelt when we need him! THAT was a good Republican! He brought Republicans back to being Republicans!
A few billionaires (and millionaires) are taking control of America. So sad ....again!
Carson is a billionaire, the last President was ....what color??
Colour alone is of little consequence here. In fact, it makes it even more woeful that the last president did not have his own community's interests as a priority enough to fight hard for their advancement.
Oprah is one of, (if not THEE) richest woman in the world (she's really a white girl in blackface...). Many OTHER doctors, scientists, Congressmen and Senators are the same "shade", and MOST of it has happened over the last 40 years!
Yes, and good for them. They are not the majority however. Blacks cannot claim success at such an average like their white counterparts can.
A HUGE majority of "blacks" voted Democratic the last 3 elections, and more WOULD HAVE voted THIS time if the conservative character assassination and Gerrymandering of white districts hadn't been so effective!
...Or they became weary of more talk and less action and were crying out for change after looking back at the Democratic track record.
I don't see any groundswell of blacks moving to the "right" (I hate that designation, it's so.....wrong!)
Please explain why such a designation is wrong.
You were saying.....?
Turn your attention to the inner cities and tell me if the black community are rising higher than they did before their beloved black president came into office.
"Turn your attention to the inner cities.....etc." We (I hate to use a word I have hated for the last few years, but)...OBSTRUCTED the African American race (hope you don't mind if I use a bit of PC), for over a century. those, mostly on the ...er...right...still do. You can't expect it to improve greatly over 20 or so years, just like you couldn't expect our ruined economy, set back about 60 years, to completely turn around in one decade .... while STILL being obstructed!
While MANY African Americans are killed and few of their killers are convicted, (or even charged), it will take a prolonged time to pull them out of their "depression". Unfair legalities only slow the process.
ALL lives matter, but when only white ones get a fair shake you cannot expect that grouping ALL together will get ANY attention for the black ones. The "Black Lives Matter" slogan is justified! Accept it, understand it, and you and we will ALL benefit.
The "Democratic track record" and that of the President, were intentionally obstructed by the "do nothing to allow success to Obama Congress", so it's largely on THEM that far less was done. THey held the purse strings. Now, with Trump throwing out the Presidents "Executive Orders", let's see how much more the Donald does for "other colors". "You can't improve a bad cake by changing the frosting!"
"Turn your attention to the inner cities.....etc." We (I hate to use a word I have hated for the last few years, but)...OBSTRUCTED the African American race (hope you don't mind if I use a bit of PC), for over a century. those, mostly on the ...er...right...still do. You can't expect it to improve greatly over 20 or so years, just like you couldn't expect our ruined economy, set back about 60 years, to completely turn around in one decade .... while STILL being obstructed!
Obstructed by whom? Who would seek to prevent black unemployment rates from rising or race relations from improving? How do you explain that both of these, including the income for the average black household have worsened?
ALL lives matter, but when only white ones get a fair shake you cannot expect that grouping ALL together will get ANY attention for the black ones. The "Black Lives Matter" slogan is justified! Accept it, understand it, and you and we will ALL benefit.
They are certainly NOT justified. Does it not strike you as peculiar that under a black president, a quite frankly black power movement like Black Lives Matter has materialised? Their actions do not even assist their own community in any way shape or form; instead they quite literally dismantle it. They are divisive and any president who is seeking to bring unity should not be sanctioning their behaviour, any more than they would the KKK.
The "Democratic track record" and that of the President, were intentionally obstructed by the "do nothing to allow success to Obama Congress", so it's largely on THEM that far less was done. THey held the purse strings. Now, with Trump throwing out the Presidents "Executive Orders", let's see how much more the Donald does for "other colors". "You can't improve a bad cake by changing the frosting!"
Well if what the Donald has done so far for other colours is anything to go by I think it will be a great success and the black community will realise how cheated they were by Mr. Hope and Change. The American economy is already beginning to pick up with his agenda. And if there was any obstruction pertaining to the black community that he faced, with the amount of executive orders Obama passed, he would have managed to do something greater, if it were in his keen interest. He was more interested in his legacy than anything else, as evidenced even by his campaign rhetoric.
They got a Liberal Black president in the white house.
Do you ever have a clue what I am talking about? Maybe you missed it when i said Ben Carson is a good Christian Black man who knows what is causing all the poverty in the black community.
He knows IT IS NOT THE WHITE MAN CAUSING IT!
Obama used the usual race bating victim rhetoric to keep garnering the black vote and LITTLE was said concerning the break down in the Black families.
CARSON IS WILLING TO STATE THE TRUTH AND HAS ALREADY DONE SO MANY TIMES!
I blame all irresponsible people regardless their skin color. If they choose to walk out on their children, or sleep around getting pregnant and then running down to social services to have tax payers support them, then they are irresponsible losers.
You are the old Democrat party type of thinking where everything is the rich man's fault. GET SOME NEW MATERIAL. YOU JUST LOST THE ELECTION WITH THAT STATUS QUO LIBERAL RHETORIC.
It's time to grow and learn how failed a system Liberalism is.