Word of unsolicited advice and maybe a question to and for the African-American community, the Latino-community and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, what made you think a Leopard would change it’s spot?
What is it about the record of Donald Trump that made you want to give him the benefit of the doubt? I’m not about to re-litigate Trump’s record of bigotry , xenophobia, misogyny, divisiveness, and fascism.
In today’s world a simple google search is enough to shine a light on pretty much any subject.
I am at pains in my efforts to find a rationale for Black Americans supposed desire to have Donald J Trump meet with them . To begin with Donald Trump had no use for blacks throughout his seven decades on the planet. In fact he did not have any use for blacks even up to through the republican primaries. Black were summarily expelled by his goons, a black man was sucker punched by an old trailer trash , and of course the white police attacked the victim. A young black woman was physically and verbally assaulted and kicked out to Trump’s gleeful cheering,.
“Knock the hell out of them will you,I love the old days , in the old days they would have been outta here on a stretcher” .
More consequential, his attempts to delegitimize the Nation’s first African-American president, suggesting that the president was not born in the United States, a demand to see the president’s birth certificate , which is the equivalent of the show me your paper rules of years gone by.
The fact is that this tanned buffoon is an unmitigated racist bigot.
So what about this history that say to American Blacks , maybe we should care about this buffoon?
I mean this is a guy who spent $85.ooo to demagogue and defame 5 young black and Latino youths ages 14 – 15 who were wrongly arrested by NYPD cops and convicted of rape in 1989. The youths were convicted , thanks to Trump’s full page ads in local papers calling for the death penalty for the juveniles, the poisoned jury pool returned a guilty verdict resulting in a 13 year incarceration before they were eventually exonerated.
Trumps unequivocal support for police, regardless of their abuse of the laws today was the same for the cops who framed the five juveniles in 1989.
Donald J Trump the landlord refused to rent to black tenants, those are facts.
In light of his characterization of Mexicans as rapists and murderers, what was it about those statements which endeared Trump to the supposed Hispanic advisory council, before they were shamed into quitting ?
What better way to judge someone than the words they utter ?
I’m reminded about this little gem.…
The scorpion wanted to hitch a ride across the river begged the frog for a ride.
The frog adamantly refused citing the deadly consequences of the scorpion’s sting.
The scorpion asked ‚why would I sting you when you are giving me a ride?
The frog relented .
Mid-stream the scorpion struck .
The frog feeling the life draining from him asked, why did you, you promised not to?
The scorpion replied , I am a scorpion that’s what I do..
What did Enrique Peña Nieto expect to gain from having Trump in Mexico city ? We are now hearing that the invite by Enrique Peña Nieto was just cursory and not really intended for Trump to take up, it was along the line of come visit with us and speak to us , get to know us before disrespecting us kind of invite.
The same invite was extended to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
Clinton understands protocol, clinton has not disparaged Mexicans, Clinton has a lifetime of meeting with world leaders, she understood the invite was diplomatic courtesy, kinda like a neighbor saying we should get together sometime. You know you are not going to their house , they know they aren’t coming to your house, but it’s something to say.
Not to Trump and his campaign, they saw mileage , much like his attempts to extract mileage from the clueless Black Pastors who prostitute the gospel, their dignity and their congregations all for a chance to gain some spotlight and a chance to see their stupid faces on television.
Trump has no use for neither Black nor Latino voters . He is using the Black church as he has the Hispanic advisory council, as he has used Enrique Peña Nieto to show white people with conscience that the allegations of racism against him are unfounded. That is the strategy of the newly appointed Kellyanne Conway.
You don’t have to speak to them, speak at them and over their heads to our target audience which must turn out in record numbers if we are to win.
The problem for Enrique Peña Nieto whose approval ratings are in the tank, is that he missed a golden opportunity to embarrass the bloviating bigot.
He erred egregiously in elevating Trump to an equal, giving Trump that platform elevated him to statesmanship Trump has earned but desperately craves. However Enrique Peña Nieto could have made lemonade from the lemon he dealt himself. He could have stood up for Mexico and the Mexican people by highlighting the mutual benefits which exist between his nation and the United States.
He could have chided Trump for being a uninformed bigot , he choked , as a result Trump emerged from that visit as the victor , leaving Enrique Peña Nieto to flail away using his twitter account,. He had a chance to crush Trump and he did not , advantage Trump.
Donald Trump is Donald Trump he will not change a damn thing about who he is, as such the Hispanic and Black mannequins who allow themselves to be used as props to dress up the presidential ambitions of a bigot should feel shame.
The problem is that the need to rub shoulders with massa may “TRUMP” sense for these blacks and hispanic props.