2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNo, Don, the African American community is not a "gift from God" to the American people.
The African American community is here because they were taken away from their homes in chains, by evil human beings -- not God.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/03/politics/donald-trump-black-voters-detroit/index.html
"For centuries, the African-American church has been the conscience of this country. So true," Trump said, reading from prepared remarks. He added, "The African-American faith community has been one of God's greatest gifts to America and its people."
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)of Black America.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)ALL people in Power .
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)As if God had anything to do with them being brought here, and as if they are an "other" that was separate and given to the American people.
volstork
(5,403 posts)Not that he wrote it. Then again, the whole campaign-- the whole republican party-- is tone-deaf.
hlthe2b
(102,343 posts)sarae
(3,284 posts)NO.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Hekate
(90,774 posts)sheshe2
(83,861 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)CNN is really hauling water on this one. Note how they contort themselves to "normalize" this posturing, narcissistic buffoon. Just where *is* that mythical entity of LIBERAL media when you need it?
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Story highlights
Trump, for the first time as a presidential candidate, addressed a largely black audience.
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A subdued Donald Trump on Saturday directly addressed a largely African-American audience for the first time as a presidential candidate, delivering a warmly received message of unity that focused on fixing economic hardship in the black community.
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"I believe we need a civil rights agenda for our time," said Trump, before he concluded by citing 1 John 4:12.
"No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us," Trump said, adding, "That's so true."
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Lsantos04
(48 posts)But this is par for the course for that orange turd. He's been a racist moron for years now, just like his KKK father.
Hey Donald, whatever happened to that investigation into Obama's birth certificate? That sure backfired on you pretty badly, considering how few black voters support you.
DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)Is that what he's saying?
tblue37
(65,483 posts)a gift so that the US economy could be built on their backs, with their stolen labor.
Besides, the way that stupid comment is phrased excludes "the African-American faith community" from the category of "America and its people." How can they be considered a "gift to America and its people" if they are part of America and its people?
Oh, man, this makes me so mad! I swear steam is pouring out of my ears.
I despise carelessly tossed around clichés anyway, but this jackass's cheesy clichés are spouted with no thought at all, no awareness of what the words mean and how disgustingly at odds they are with the reality that is the history of black enslavement, torture, and murder, which continues even now, along with ongoing social, economic, and political dispossession, disempowerment, and disenfranchisement that imposes a tax on every endeavor, every success.
As we have seen all too often, it doesn't matter how accomplished, successful, or celebrated a black person is. His or her accomplishments will be discounted as the result of affirmative action, and his or her success will be devalued by racist commentary and action.
Think of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, a respected, world renowned academic/author/TV personality, who was badgered, disrespected, manhandled, and arrested for entering his own home in an upscale neighborhood and then failing to sufficiently "Yes, sir" the young racist cop who showed up to harass him after a white neighbor called the cops on him--because of course a black man had to be breaking into such a fancy house; he couldn't, you know, belong there!
Think of Charles Belk, the successful film producer handcuffed while on his way to a pre-Emmy party and forced to sit on the curb during rush hour by cops who claimed he "fit the description" of a man who had robbed a nearby bank (IOW, he was black):
Belk told NBC that he was convinced that I would still be locked up if he had not been able to reach an attorney.
I get that the Beverly Hills Police Department didnt know that I was a well educated American citizen that had received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, an MBA from Indiana University and an executive leadership certificate from Harvard Business School <emphasis added>, Belk said on Facebook. Hey, I was tall, bald, a male and black, so I fit the description.
If something like this can happen to ME, it can certainly happen to ANYONE! he wrote in the Facebook post, which was titled When you Fit the Description.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-producer-arrest-beverly-hills-20140827-story.html
Think of Harvard educated James Blake, the tennis star, who was violently tackled by a plain-clothes cop (who never bothered to identify himself) as he leaned against a wall and texted, because the cop saw a black man and automatically assumed he must be the criminal they were investigating for credit card fraud:
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/ex-tennis-star-james-blake-mistakenly-tackled-white-cops-article-1.2353983
Retired black tennis star James Blake, in an NYPD double-fault, was slammed to a Manhattan sidewalk and handcuffed by a white cop in a brutal case of mistaken identity.
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It was definitely scary and definitely crazy, Blake told the Daily News. In my mind theres probably a race factor involved, but no matter what theres no reason for anybody to do that to anybody.
Blake, on his way to make a corporate appearance for Time Warner Cable at the U.S. Open, said none of white cops identified themselves, including the officer who charged straight at him and bounced him off the E. 42nd St. concrete around noon.
Dont say a word, snapped the officer, who Blake said was not wearing a badge.
They are automatically assumed to be dangerous criminals, no matter how respectable and well-heeled they look, no matter how well-spoken they are, and no matter that they are not behaving in any suspicious way, not speaking rudely, and not resisting or running away when accosted by LEOs. Even worse, they aren't just arrested and handcuffed, but they are also treated rudely and brutalized, and if they dare to ask why they are being arrested, they are told to shut up and often beaten for daring to ask a question at all.
And then, of course, there is the disrespect and blatantly racist questioning of every single attribute of and accomplishment President Obama--including his citizenship--as well as those of his wife and daughters. Their intelligence, grace, dignity, and decency are evident, yet the racist yahoos endlessly deny that they have actually earned anything that they have accomplished.
How dare Trump say such a thing. Yeah, I know they were prepared remarks--prepared by someone else--and that he was just reading them aloud. But no one should dare say such a stupid, stupid thing when so much has been stolen and continues to be stolen from African-Americans.
Someone needs to smack that jackass upside the head with a smelly dead fish. And then they need to do it again, and again, and again.
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)the American people.