{"id":14130,"date":"2024-11-01T01:27:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T01:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=14130"},"modified":"2024-11-01T01:29:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T01:29:17","slug":"trump-wants-black-males-to-vote-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/01\/trump-wants-black-males-to-vote-for-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Wants Black Males to Vote for Him.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"What do they have to lose? A hell of a lot.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Michael A. Grant<\/strong><\/p>\n

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Looking historically at demographics, Black men in America have for centuries been singled out for the most vicious and dehumanizing attacks on their personhood and their manhood.<\/p>\n

Without delving too deeply into America\u2019s dark past, one need only to read the Autobiography of Frederick Douglas to capture a glimpse of the atrocious acts perpetrated against Black men that began during slavery and continued unabated with the murders of George Floyd, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and others to understand that the institutional animosity, the stereotyping and the marginalizing is an everyday phenomenon that still defines the day-to-day existence of many Black men struggling to survive in America.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump continues to perpetuate a \u201cGuilty until proven innocent\u201d mentality that too many in authority still perpetuate.\u00a0His record of racist and derogatory behavior toward Black men is well-documented.\u00a0To begin, he and his father discriminated against African-Americans who wanted to rent Trump apartments in New York.<\/p>\n

To add to this record of racial discrimination, Trump \u2013 without hard evidence \u2013 asserted that the \u201cCentral Park Five\u201d (four young Black males and one Latino) were guilty of the brutal rape of a young White woman and asserted that they deserved the death penalty.\u00a0Even after the accused were exonerated, Trump has consistently refused to apologize. He doubled down on this false accusation during his recent debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n

When Colin Kaepernick, an NFL free agent, encouraged other players to \u201cTake a knee\u201d in protest of unfair treatment within the NFL franchise, Trump\u2019s answer to their grievance was to call the players \u201cSons of Bitches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recently, Trump ranted that police officers should become even more aggressive, more abusive, when making arrests.\u00a0Guess who would bear the brunt of this Jim Crow \u2013 era policing?\u00a0You guessed it: Black males.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump is a politician who knows how to tamp down his racist rhetoric when he stands to gain from creating an illusion of civility but someone has wisely stated: \u201cLipstick on a pig is still a pig\u201d.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s insulting remarks about Black men identifying with him because he now has a \u201cmugshot\u201d represents a new low for this incorrigible con man.\u00a0And marketing gold sneakers is not identifying, it is exploiting.<\/p>\n

Benefitting from Black Republicans organizing \u201cBarbershop Meet-ups\u201d and alluring Black men to MAGA rallies is nothing but cheap ploys designed to manipulate the uninformed.<\/p>\n

To be fair, Trump does not limit his selling of snake oil to receptive Black men only.\u00a0His demagoguery has convinced millions of uneducated, poor White Americans that he is a populist advocating on their behalf.\u00a0What a joke!\u00a0The only voters who seem to enjoy Trump\u2019s concern are those who he has called: \u201cRich as hell\u201d.<\/p>\n

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have track records worthy of all American voters \u2013 including Black males.\u00a0They are the real \u201cChampions of the People\u201d.\u00a0Compare their economic agenda with Trump and Vance\u2019s Project 2025 blueprint for more \u201cTrickle-down economics\u201d.<\/p>\n

The stakes in the election are too high to allow showmanship to prevail.\u00a0The more American voters \u2013 of all stripes \u2013 study the priorities of these candidates, it will become crystal clear that most White and Black voters share more in common than they might realize.\u00a0The public record, if thoroughly studied, should cause the overwhelming majority of the electorate to stifle Trump\u2019s pursuit of power and force him to face his day of reckoning.<\/p>\n

Michael A Grant, J.D., president emeritus of the National Bankers Association and former assistant professor of political science at Morgan State University, is a columnist with the Trice Edney News Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n

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What do they have to lose? A hell of a lot. By Michael A. Grant (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Looking historically at demographics, Black men in America have for centuries been singled out for the most vicious and dehumanizing attacks on their personhood and their manhood. Without delving too deeply into America\u2019s dark past, one need only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[260],"class_list":["post-14130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14133,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14130\/revisions\/14133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14130"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=14130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}