Trump Kept His Promise to Black America

RUSH: You know, I went back to the archives. Sometimes things in the news jog my memory and I go back to the archives. I keep an archive of pretty much everything I use in show prep, in a number of different ways, and I have found excellent keyword search techniques to be able to recall things. If I can’t remember who wrote it, if I can’t remember the website, keyword search. I pretty much have a fair amount of success when I have a vague memory of something.

And I went back. This is a Washington Post story. It is from 2016. February 19th, 2016. And the headline: “Donald Trump Says if He ‘Were African American,’ He Wouldn’t Like President Obama — As Donald Trump pitched himself as ‘a unifier’ during a rally in this beach town Friday afternoon, he criticized President Obama for not doing enough for the African Americans who helped vote him into office.

“‘You know, Barack Obama, African American. If I were African American, I would be so angry at him,” Trump said to a crowd of 5,200. ‘African American youth has an almost 60 percent unemployment rate. African American people that are 25 — prime-time age — 25 to 40 have such a high unemployment rate, you wouldn’t believe.'”

Trump said, “I will do more for the African American people in one year than Barack Obama has done in his seven years, soon to be eight years — and then, by the way, he’s out and thank goodness.”

“I will do more for African American people in one year than Barack Obama has done in his seven years, soon to be eight.” The unemployment rate for black Americans fell to 6.8% in December, this past December. That is the lowest level since 1972 when the labor department began tracking the number. That is, therefore, the lowest unemployment rate for African Americans in history.

It marks a swift comeback for black workers who suffered through extremely high unemployment during the Great Recession. In March of 2010, for example, black unemployment peaked at — are you ready for this? — 16.8%. And that was well above the peak unemployment rates for other demographics. So 16.8% in basically almost eight years ago down to 6.8%. And it’s happened in one year!

The black unemployment rate went up, as did everybody else’s, for most of the Obama administration. And the labor force participation rate shrunk and shrunk, fewer and fewer people were even in the job market. And all this time Obama is essentially saying, “Well, this is the new norm. This is the new reality. You have to get used to it.” He’d go out to Indiana and tell people working at various factories, “You know, you want these jobs? These jobs are not coming back. There’s no way. These job cannot come back. Nobody wants to do these jobs anymore.” The jobs have come back.

I even found the craziest story. A group of economists actually are crediting Trump with the vast economic improvement of the past 12 months. And not Obama. The left is trying to say that Obama is the reason the economy’s doing well. That Trump is the reason that the world is going to end in nuclear war. I mean, the disconnect from some of these people is amazing. Meanwhile, they’re out there now trying to say Trump’s a racist, Trump’s a pig, Trump’s this or Trump’s that, when in fact he foretold and promised to reduce the black unemployment rate exactly as has happened.

You are right... and wrong.

You are wrong because of people with your attitude. We write off the Black vote. They resent being written off. They vote accordingly. Furthermore, those (of the same economic/education level) who do not vote are far more conservative than those who do vote. But those who don’t vote feel that they have nobody to vote for. The Democrats have the wrong policy and the Republicans write them off.

A working class Chicago burb voted 55% Democrat. I estimate 95% of the Blacks voted Democrat. Blacks were about 20% of the voters. I worked the area door-to-door. The next election was a 3-way race between a Democrat-teachers union slate, the incumbent slate, a RINO-corrupt governor’s slate, and a conservative anti-corruption, low tax slate.

In the 3-way race, my anti-RINO slate got 65% of the vote, about 30% of the Black vote. I left the suburb and turned it over to the Black pastor’s wife. In a 2-way slate with the RINOs and teachers union Democrats running a joint slate, the Black pastor’s wife got 87% of the total vote, and my guess is it included 87% of the Black vote.

Both she and I got 100% of the Hispanic vote. The area had far more Hispanics than Blacks. Where she and I both lost was with divorced and promiscuous women who were the most reliable Democrat voters in that suburb.

We can get much more of both the Hispanic and Black vote. But it takes a couple things. Don’t write them off. Let them know that they are not being written off. Bypass the media. Talk to them personally.

I moved to Atlanta GA which recently had an election for mayor. Heavily Black precincts that went 95%+ for Clinton went 55% and 60% for the white Republican candidate for mayor against the Black Democrat candidate for mayor. The Black candidate made Democrat v Republican as the major issue and choice in the election...and Black precincts went for the Republican.

The Republican lost because 51% of white Republicans in the Republican NW part of Atlanta sat home and did not come out and vote while for the city as a whole 56% of those who voted in Nov 2016 also voted in the mayoral election.

Getting your voters to the polls is the way to win.

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