Donald Trump’s “outreach” to black voters is a farce. Luckily, the mainstream media is beginning to clue into the fact that when Trump speaks about black people, the message is about reassuring his white supporters that they aren’t really racist, more than trying to win over black voters.
“We’re going to rebuild our inner cities because our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape they’ve ever been in before. Ever, ever, ever,” Trump told the crowd in Kenansville.
“You take a look at the inner cities, you get no education, you get no jobs, you get shot walking down the street. They’re worse, I mean honestly, places like Afghanistan are safer than some of our inner cities,” he continued, adding the claim that his numbers with African-American voters are “going, like, high.” It hardly bears mentioning that every word of that is a lie.
Trump supporters are primarily motived by a desire to reassert white male dominance over the culture. So why does Trump even bother with this feigned concern for the well-being of black people? What he’s really pushing is an old and ugly narrative: Black people are incapable of handling responsibility and therefore need white people to control them. You know, for their own good.
It’s critical to remember the context of this speech, both in that we have a black president and that Trump and his supporters are obsessively angry about having a black president. By suggesting that black people’s fortunes have declined under President Obama, Trump is invoking a paternalistic narrative. The black president elected by a diverse coalition couldn’t help black people, he’s suggesting. Therefore, it’s time to restore nearly exclusive white male control over government.
...Trump’s underlying narrative is: White people should be allowed rights and power, but not black people, because, in Trump’s view, they can’t handle the responsibility.
http://www.salon.com/2016/09/25/tru...k-voters-is-just-white-supremacy-in-disguise/
“We’re going to rebuild our inner cities because our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape they’ve ever been in before. Ever, ever, ever,” Trump told the crowd in Kenansville.
“You take a look at the inner cities, you get no education, you get no jobs, you get shot walking down the street. They’re worse, I mean honestly, places like Afghanistan are safer than some of our inner cities,” he continued, adding the claim that his numbers with African-American voters are “going, like, high.” It hardly bears mentioning that every word of that is a lie.
Trump supporters are primarily motived by a desire to reassert white male dominance over the culture. So why does Trump even bother with this feigned concern for the well-being of black people? What he’s really pushing is an old and ugly narrative: Black people are incapable of handling responsibility and therefore need white people to control them. You know, for their own good.
It’s critical to remember the context of this speech, both in that we have a black president and that Trump and his supporters are obsessively angry about having a black president. By suggesting that black people’s fortunes have declined under President Obama, Trump is invoking a paternalistic narrative. The black president elected by a diverse coalition couldn’t help black people, he’s suggesting. Therefore, it’s time to restore nearly exclusive white male control over government.
...Trump’s underlying narrative is: White people should be allowed rights and power, but not black people, because, in Trump’s view, they can’t handle the responsibility.
http://www.salon.com/2016/09/25/tru...k-voters-is-just-white-supremacy-in-disguise/
