Yesterday, Donald Trump went to a rural white community, stood in front of an all-white audience, and addressed the nation’s disaffected African Americans. Today, white people all over the Internet are hailing the speech as the greatest advance in race relations since Vanilla Ice smashed the color barrier in rap music.
For example, Trump whitesplained:
The problem in our poorest communities is not that there are too many police, the problem is that there are not enough police.
That’s right you silly minorities, the only only problem you have with your policing is that you don’t get enough of it. You need:
More broken-windows policing, More people dying in police custody, More unarmed people shot, More unconstitutional stops and searches.These practices have nothing to do with the recent rioting in Milwaukee. The problem? Complaining about those things.
Those peddling the narrative of cops as a racist force in our society – a narrative supported with a nod by my opponent – share directly in the responsibility for the unrest in Milwaukee, and many other places within our country.
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Our job is not to make life more comfortable for the rioter, the looter, the violent disruptor. Our job is to make life more comfortable for the African-American parent who wants their kids to be able to safely walk the streets.
And when Trump says “safely,” he means, of course, “in a manner that will not startle a white person into shooting them for any conceivable reason.” I mean, let’s meet halfway on this “walk in the streets” thing, OK?
Now some people might be resentful that Trump is being recognized as a genius when he read this speech off a teleprompter. After all, when the black guy does that, it’s lampooned as idiocy. But other than that, the speech was oratory gold. Just ask the The Whites of Free Republic. They’ll tell you that not only was this speech “Reaganesque,” but it was just what black people need to hear.
Trump hit it out of the park, on EVERY topic, spot on. Jane Long
OUTSTANDING!!! The Youtube link needs to be copied and given to EVERY democrat voter you know, every low income, innercity black and poor person. Tell them, don’t say NOTHIN ‘bout NOTHIN cause you don’t know NOTHIN until you listen to this here. mublypeg
We truly have not heard an American leader speak this way since Reagan. I feel uplifted and hopeful just reading it. Did you catch how strongly he reached out to minority voters? I’m almost afraid to watch the video, for fear I’d break down and bawl like a kid. Windflier
I am passing this link to my black friends. Have had many conversations with “The community.” I am convinced Trump will get a HUGE part of their votes. Several have told me the same thing: They don’t even talk about Trump much in their neighborhoods and families because they get shouted down. But they will speak in the voting booth. Disestablishmentarian
Some saw this as a jumping-off point for even deeper minority outreach:
would love to see an inner city tour with Sheriff Clarke and Ben Carson at his side.....Baltimore, Chicago, Philadelphia, St Louis. repeat the stats, repeat the stats....education, crime rate, poverty, drug use GotMojo
Of course! Nothing could be more effective in getting blacks on board than going on a “Some of my best friends are black tour” of poor black communities and telling them about their poverty and crime. And don’t forget to promise to send more of the same policing. Yeah, Baltimore, stop with the poverty and crime or you’ll be taking the Freddie Gray express yourselves.
Naturally, not all of the commentary centered on Trump’s brilliant minority outreach, but on some of the other wonderful characteristics of Trump that were revealed.
If he’s not sincere, he really missed his calling by not becoming an actor. jazminerose
To date, Donald Trump has appeared as an actor in 19 roles in film and television. This does not count over 200 appearances as himself. I think this sums up the delusion of the Trump voter: believing that Trump must not be a movie or TV star because he hasn’t attempted to become one.
There were some grumblings that Trump is not a bona fide “Constitutional conservative,” to which SubMareener offered this bit of practical insight:
As I used to say to them: After Donald J. Trump finishes doing all the things he has promised: build the wall, deport illegals and Syrian invaders, cancel Obama’s unconstitutional executive orders, roll back twenty years of intrusive government regulations, prosecute Hillary and her crew, release the secret 28 pages from the 9/11 report, negotiate prescription drug purchases, repeal and replace Obamacare, simplify the Tax code, repatriate $2.5 trillion in off-shore profits, stop the IRS from abridging the free speech of Christian Churches, reform the libel laws to remove the “public figure” distinctions, defund Planned Parenthood until they stop doing abortions, cleaning up the mess that is the VA, cutting waste, fraud and abuse where ever it is found, canceling Common Core and returning control of education to the States, end the assault on the Second Amendment, audit the Federal Reserve System, investigate the harmful additives in Vaccines and the coverup of studies at the CDC, and destroy the culture of Political Correctness, then we can talk about all the Conservative issues that need to be addressed.
Emphasis mine.
Yes. You just read that.
Update: Thank you for the rec’s!