Shocked and disappointed by their loss in the presidential election of 2016, the left and the Democratic Party went absolutely crazy. By the day after the election there was talk of impeachment. Ads on television begged members of the electoral college to change their votes and vote for Clinton instead of Trump. Demented people marched in the streets, crying “He is not my president!” And the Democratic “insurance policy” went into effect as Trump detractors within the FBI, the DOJ, and Obama’s administration who had already spied on the Trump campaign for months, began to set wheels in motion to force the appointment of a Special Counsel to investigate “collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians.” How else could he have beaten Clinton, they argued? This, of course, is the Democratic mantra. If a Democrat wins with tainted ballots — ballots cast by dead people, illegal aliens, and ex-convicts who have no right to vote, or ballots that mysteriously turn up long after the deadline — it is a valid election. But if a Republican wins because election laws were followed, it is voter suppression and he/she has stolen the election.
The media and the Democratic Party alike swung into full attack mode, after President Trump’s election, the Democrats labeling themselves the #Resistance as if they bore any similarity to the brave men and women in countries like France who fought the Nazis in the underground at peril of their lives during WWII. The news media, except for Fox, found fault with everything from the president’s former model wife’s choice of clothing to the expressions on his face. And they labeled President Trump a homophobe, a misogynist, a xenophobe, and a racist, and eventually bestowed those labels on his supporters as well. He, and we, are none of those things, of course, but most assuredly, President Trump is not a racist.
A racist, by definition, is “a person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who believes that a particular race is superior to another.” To be sure, there remain racists in America, but the percentage here is actually much smaller than in countries like Britain and France who feel overwhelmed by Middle Easterners who live in their own enclaves and pretty much by their own Sharia Law. In the U.S., according to left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center, there are, for example currently between 5000 – 8000 members of the Ku Klux Klan out of a population of nearly 330 million. Other organizations, put the number much smaller — even in the hundreds. However, using the SPLC number of 5000-8000, we are still looking at only about 0.00002222% of the population. In 1920, when the U.S. population was about 106 million, there were 4 million Klansmen. That was about .038%. That is a considerable improvement. However, let’s look at it another way. In 2016, the WNBA, perhaps the least attended professional sport, had record attendance, averaging 7,655 fans per game. If we took the average of the the SPLC’s range of KKK members, the number would be 6,500 KKK members, fewer than the fans that attended the least popular professional sport on average in 2016.
President Trump has shown just the opposite from racism. His original so-called Muslim ban was not only deemed well within his duties as a president by the Supreme Court, but in fact, only included immigrants from seven majority Muslim countries which had been listed by President Obama’s administration as having failed governments. It would be impossible to be sure that anyone entering from these countries did not have ties to terrorist organizations simply because no valid government records were available about them. A British reporter, for example, discovered that within 24 hours in Syria, he could obtain a passport and a complete false background. In addition, the ban only covered 7 of the 49 Muslim countries in the world, involving only about 12% of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims.
Furthermore, if President Trump were trying to be racist here, he failed woefully. Islam is a religion, not a race and many Muslims have skin as white as the President’s. If the charge is that he is prejudiced against Middle Eastern people (a race as defined by most anthropologists) he made two serious blunders. A man who felt superior towards and was prejudiced against Middle Eastern peoples would not have made his first foreign visit to Saudi Arabia nor would he have befriended Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. Israelis are Middle Eastern also!
So, he is not prejudiced against Middle Easterners unless they are trying to kill Americans. Then who is he prejudiced against? Not Asians. Elaine Chou, wife of Senator Mitch McConnell, is Secretary of Transportation and a member of his Cabinet. . . both a woman and an Asian. Another mistake if he is truly a racist.
But wait! What about black Americans? Let’s begin with the Republican primary debates. There were 17 candidates: a woman, two Hispanics, an Indian (from India),a American and 12 white men. At one debate, the candidates were called onto the stage one by one by the announcer. Amid the roar and applause, Ben Carson, the black candidate, did not hear his name called and did not leave the wings. The announcer continued with the next name and then the next. Each of the other candidates brushed past Carson as he waited in the wings, but not Donald Trump. Showing compassion and friendship for his opponent, he stopped by Carson when his own name was called, placed his hand on Carson’s shoulder, and waited with him while the rest of the candidates went onto the stage. At last Ben Carson’s name was called again, followed by that of Donald Trump, and the two men took their places on stage. No one who is prejudiced against another race would act with such compassion for someone he despised. And while I would not accuse any of the other candidates of being racist either, still not a single one of them waited with Carson. Not a one. Only Donald Trump. Ben Carson is now the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and a member of the President’s Cabinet.
President Trump has demonstrated great concern for the plight of black Americans. They suffered greatly under President Obama as jobs grew scarce and more and more of them were forced onto welfare. The push for higher minimum wages, fought for by liberals, actually hurt minority groups such as blacks. Companies paid more per hour, but reduced many full-time workers to part-time and let others go in order to maintain their bottom line. Under President Trump, the black unemployment rate has dropped to 5.9%, the lowest it has ever been since records have been kept. Hispanic unemployment (another race he is accused of hating) has dropped to 4.9 percent. Under President Obama, the incomes of blacks fell more than $900 adjusted for inflation. Gradually they are realizing that under this president their lives are improving considerably. Even the rate of job growth for blacks has been 40% higher per month than under President Obama. This under the president that the left calls a “racist.”
The President is also pushing for school choice so that poorer students can opt to go to schools where they can get a better education. Those who benefit from this voucher system in cities like Washington D.C. and Milwaukee are predominantly black. Unfortunately, bowing to the unions who support them almost exclusively, the Democratic Party is pushing back against school choice and many cities run by Democratic mayors, such as Chicago, will not allow the use of vouchers.
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2018, fifteen year-old C.J. Pearson posted the following on Twitter:
.@realDonaldTrump has done more for black folks in one year than Obama did in eight. #MLK would be proud. #MAGA #MLKDaypic.twitter.com/bpkP2greqd
— CJ Pearson (@thecjpearson) January 15, 2018
And he is not the only black American to feel that way. Pastor Darrell Scott of Cleveland said, “This is probably going to be . . . the most pro-black president I’ve seen in my lifetime. This president actually wants to prove something to our community, our faith-based community and our ethnic community. The last president didn’t feel like he had to.” Many other blacks, athletes — singers, actors, and columnists — support him as well. His approval rating among blacks has risen to to 36%.
Several times President Trump has had influential blacks — ministers, athletes, and even rappers – meet with him in the White House to discuss things that can be done to improve life in the black community and to discuss prison reform. He wants to see Americans, all Americans, regardless of their race prosper in a country where most of us have been ignored for decades. Unlike the left, he sees citizens of this country as Americans, not as Native Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, white Americans, black Americans. And he believes that with his business background he can help us all to prosper. And that has proven to be true.
President Abraham Lincoln, when informed that General Ulysees S. Grant was a drunk, asked what whiskey he favored so he could send a barrel of it to every other Union general, since Grant was the only one winning any battles. If President Trump is a racist, American minorities need more just like him!