Donald Trump Calls The Slavery Era A Good Time Before Reaching Out To Black Voters
Not The Onion!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-black-voters-slavery_us_57b4bd84e4b0fd5a2f40ee2d
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:...
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 wasnt until the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that many black Americans were truly able to cast ballots....
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.