Posted on 11/21/2016 7:29:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
On North Avenue, young black men with nothing to do wander past boarded-up buildings and dilapidated shops. It is a sad, desolate landscape.
They and other African Americans in Milwaukee contributed to Hillary Clinton's crushing defeat in the presidential election: not only did they not vote for her, as had been expected, some even backed Donald Trump.
Wisconsin's largest city is also America's most racially segregated one, according to a study based on the 2010 census.
And Wisconsin served up one of the biggest surprises of an election day that shocked America and the world: no one thought the midwestern state would fall to the Republican billionaire.
Clinton was so sure of victory she did not even bother to campaign here after the Democratic primaries, instead sending her daughter Chelsea or her husband, former president Bill Clinton....
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Good for them. They finally wised up.
Trump will make America great for everyone.
Smug arrogance doesn’t work for any race.
Yahoo News was a particularly caustic, vile, Clinton biased propaganda site. This sort of balanced analysis was verboten on Yahoo when it mattered.
Who's been running the city and other hellholes since 1908? Democrats. How come nobody blame the local Rats for the failures?
A’ Rat Urban Utopia.
Hold on up there! The Trump train is coming and everybody gets to ride!
I’d like to take a tiny bit of credit for this. I was pounding away throughout my social networks against Clinton throughout the campaign. It was a soft target, there was not a lot of love for her, and Trump did a good job of creating just enough of a question in their minds about what he might be able to do, such that they just stayed out of it.
+100!
"You cannot count the number of people who did not even try to vote because of the voter ID law."Money quote. Voter ID is critical to stop the fraud. Anyone who values their vote will take the time and trouble to get registered and have a valid ID. you do that for virtually everything else in life.
Because until Trump came along, Republicans weren’t there to challenge them. They figured they’d be a party for middle class suburbanites and cede the working class and inner cities to the dems.
Trump will make America great for everyone.
Donald Trump will, if his supporters allow him to do it, by creating an atmosphere which will attract more minorities to the new GOP.
Unfortunately, I see simply too much overt racial animus coming from many places. It seems like it's so easy to fall into the trap of taking the easy route to prejudice.
For instance, every time an article about a violent crime is posted here, a flurry of "if Obama had a son" (and related) responses invariably follow. It frequently becomes a veritable orgy of racially antagonistic outrage.
Now I fully understand that there needs to be blunt talk about the horrifying facts and statistics regarding violent crime and race. There's simply no excuse for it. Black culture, as a whole, should be both embarrassed and angry about such shameful realities.
Now I posit: would the FReepers like Donald Trump to talk like that? Would they like to see Donald Trump make gratuitous race-baiting statements under such circumstances? I hope not!
If President Trump plays his cards right, he'll transform the GOP into a principled "big-tent" party that will relegate the Democrats to minority status for decades to come.
But those voters aren't going to be attracted to the GOP, and aren't going to stick with the GOP, if they encounter a racially hostile environment. I submit that we should care about this issue.
So I think it behooves us all to try to be a little more thoughtful about the comments we make regarding race, just like Donald Trump ostensibly is.
Donald Trump can "tell it like it is" without lapsing into racial animus, and so can we. That's how he gets re-elected, that's how the new GOP builds an overwhelming electoral coalition, and that's how it becomes a governing party for decades.
I'm not lecturing anyone in particular here; I was just taken aback as a result of reviewing the intemperate spree of responses on another thread (which was an article that reported a particularly heinous violent crime).
I just feel like if Trump supporters don't keep their noses clean, and are too self-indulgent with their new-found political power, that the propagandists on the Left will gain undue traction with respect to fanning the flames of racial division, and thereby all of our hard work will come to naught.
Let's do this right. Let's not blow this. That goes for Donald Trump, and it goes for those of us who voted for him...
Born and raised in Milwaukee - wouldn’t recognize the place now. Actually I would - go back every summer to visit my aged, declining mother, but there are large swaths of the city that I avoid, areas where in my youth I would travel through without a thought. I also know - knew - Chicago well once. Don’t get me started on that he**hole. I fear for my life having to transit through on the toll way/I94.
“If President Trump plays his cards right, he’ll transform the GOP into a principled “big-tent” party that will relegate the Democrats to minority status for decades to come.
But those voters aren’t going to be attracted to the GOP, and aren’t going to stick with the GOP, if they encounter a racially hostile environment. I submit that we should care about this issue.
So I think it behooves us all to try to be a little more thoughtful about the comments we make regarding race, just like Donald Trump ostensibly is.”
You are making excellent, valid points. I hope people are paying attention.
But this cuts both ways. Unfortunately there are some people who use their racial status as an excuse for their failures, instead of working hard,
Condi Rice was brought up right and look what she accomplished.
Many years ago now, I found myself back in Milwaukee. My wife was pregnant and we availed ourselves of the wonderful free prenatal program of a local Catholic hospital - God bless the Catholics! - which by then was located in a sketchy neighborhood. So on one of our visits to the hospital we decided to go with our kids to a nearby park. No sooner had we settled in for what I mistakenly assumed would be an uneventful afternoon at the park suddenly turned ominous when I saw a group of - shall we say young men of color - taking notice of us and moving towards us. Fortunately there were workers nearby working on a park building, and I quickly herded my family over to them, and we were protected.
Good on ya!
If you’re being given taxpayer money by the guvment you have an ID.
Trump did the thing that has needed to be done for decades. He cut through the crap of the “political class,” which does nothing but promise goodies to get elected and re-elected, and then routinely reneges on those promises and laughs about how great life is at cocktail parties.
Both parties are in that class, and both parties are now finding out what it’s like to have a leader at the top who is going to be stressing work, and results. Or else.
The cocktail party is over. They will perform their duties to make America great again, or they will hit the bricks.
I’d love to see more Black Americans join the middle class.
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