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| Dwyane now a Bull; it's about time! |
You
have to give Donald Trump one bit of credit.
When
people began bashing him about on Saturday because of his use of Twitter to try
to score political points off the shooting death of the cousin of aging NBA
star Dwyane Wade, he fixed his typo.
ALTHOUGH
I’M NOT sure it really should be considered a typographical error. Besides, the
real reason the Republican presidential nominee deserved criticism this weekend
was for his continued arrogant way in which he thinks he has the solution to
the problem of urban violence.
Even
though I strongly suspect that people with the attitude like Trump are actually
the problem, rather than the solution.
For
the record, Trump acknowledged the shooting death Friday of Nykea Aldridge –
who died after being struck by a stray bullet fired while she was out walking
around with a baby carriage. The child in the carriage was not wounded.
Aldridge
is a cousin to the basketball star who played his prep school ball at Richards
High School in suburban Oak Lawn and his college ball at Marquette University in Milwaukee.
THAT
CAUSED TRUMP to say that African-American people will be so fed up with urban
violence that they will “VOTE TRUMP!!!” come Nov. 8.
What
bothered many of the people who felt compelled to write disparaging responses
is that Trump made reference to “Dwayne Wade,” not going along with the
spelling of his own name that Wade uses (which apparently is the way his
grandmother felt the name should be spelled when she gave it to his father –
Dwyane is a “junior”).
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Trump
later deleted his Twitter comment and replaced it with something fixing the name
spelling. As though that solves the problem!
The
real problem is that Trump truly is delusional if he thinks he’s getting
anything resembling a significant share of the black vote come Election Day.
Heck, I’ve seen some polls saying that as little as 1 percent of
African-American people are inclined to back Trump.
BASICALLY,
EVEN BY the pathetic standards of the Republican Party, black people are
rejecting this presidential candidate.
Because
black people are intelligent enough to figure out who the real problem is with
regards to government officials who don’t have their interests at heart.
Trump
last week tried claiming that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton
is the real racist because Democrats haven’t done much of anything to improve the
lot in life of black people. He may have a point.
But
black people are aware enough to know that while there may be a sense of apathy
toward them and a feeling that Democrats take the black voter bloc for granted,
it is the Republican government officials who call out for public policies that
view black existence as the root of all problems in our society.
ANYBODY
WHO WATCHED the Republican National Convention a month ago could clearly see
that it was a lily-white affair. It’s no wonder the white supremacists (or
racialists or whatever label they try to use to water down the concept of
bigot) feel comfortable with the Trump vision of the party that they’re willing
to back him publicly.
As
far as Democrats are concerned, one can argue whether there are enough of black
people or Latinos or any other group within the membership, but the overall
impression is one of an organization that includes a little of everybody –
which may well be why they don’t easily agree.
Differing
people often find trouble playing nice with each other. But it’s also a
reflection of the reality of our society.
Listening
to Trump trying to score political points off race by trying to ignore our
differences makes it seem like he’s the real source of the problem we as a
people continue to face.
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