The Democrats have constantly tried to paint PDJT as a racist. During the 2016 campaign they made a huge deal out of the fact that David Duke endorsed him. Of course, Trump did not seek Duke’s endorsement and blew it off when it came. When elected, did he then ignore the black community as the Democrats have done for decades after they won elections?
What is his record with regard to minorities? Specifically, what has he done that has helped or hurt the black community? What is his record on black employment? How about education? What about black income? How about black business formation?
Have PDJT’s policy decisions have a positive or negative effect in the black community? Black unemployment has hit record lows. Black teenage unemployment has never been lower. The rate of job growth for blacks has been 40 percent higher than the average under Obama. What is really remarkable about that is that Obama was elected when employment was way down.
On education PDJT is a champion of the idea of vouchers/scholarships. PDJT wants every child to be able to attend a quality school, public or private. The goal is to give every poor or minority child the same range of education choices that wealthy families have. On this he has been less successful. Why? The Democrats, who are heavily funded by the AFT and the NEA, have blocked attempts to expand school choice programs. Who are the racists here?
Black family income is rising just as the income of families all across America has risen. This is the opposite of what was happening under Obama. Fewer families are relying on government assistance to survive. More and more are getting off programs like welfare and food stamps and becoming self-sufficient. Overall some 4 million people of all races have left the food stamp program.
Many ethnic groups have entered this country during its history. Arguably the strongest path to financial improvement of any group has been small business formation. So, how is black small business formation doing under the Trump administration? Skyrocketing would be understating it. There has been a 400% increase in the formation of new black small businesses. Again this is a dramatic reversal of the Obama’s administration record. Under Obama new business formation in general was the weakest since they started keeping records. In 2015 for the 1st time in the country’s history more businesses died then were born.
So it would seem that PDJT should be liked by blacks. Once again the Democrats have advanced a false narrative about the President in claiming he is a racist. If he is, he is the most unsuccessful racist ever.
What has been the effect? PDJT’s approval numbers among blacks have doubled since last year. It now stands at 36%. It was at 8% when he was elected. This has led to the identification of a new mental illness called Kanye Derangement Syndrome. Any well-known black (Kanye West and Jim Brown) who dare to stand with PDJT must be mentally ill.
Kanye’s embrace of PDJT has created a full-blown panic among Democrats. Why? The political calculus of the Dems says that they need 90% of a strong black turnout to win national elections. The Dems pit Americans against each other based on ethnicity. Blacks walking away from the Democratic plantation seriously weakens their chances in such elections. And they know it. This leads to a full frontal assault of any well-known black who strays from the plantation.
This is the modern Democratic Party.