Even Donald Trump's staunchest supporters will acknowledge that the wording in many of his Tweets is ill considered. In the aftermath of his Tweets about Baltimore, the Left predictably erupted with the standard shouts of Racist. Well, let's just assume for a moment that Trump IS racist. In terms of Baltimore, that begs the very large question - So What? What possible difference does it make to the thousands of black people suffering in that city?
Trump has been criticized, even by Fox News anchors, for not having presented his "plan" to fix the problems in Baltimore. That, in itself, demonstrates how supposedly educated people don't really understand how our government works. One anchor, Bill Hemmer, was interviewing the former governor of Maryland. He said something to the effect of "But, Governor, you were the highest elected official in Maryland. Why didn't you step in to fix those problems"?
No President or Governor can "fix" problems at the local level. Anyone ever heard of Home Rule? Cities have their own governments. The only way for a President or Governor to "step in and fix" local problems would be to declare martial law and send in troops.
Let's assume that Trump called Dr. Ben Carson into the Oval Office and said, "Listen, Ben. I really don't think those lazy black SOBs in Baltimore have the mental capacity to properly spend the $6.9 billion dollars we've given them this year, but I'm not going to stop it. Go down there and see what you can do".
Is that any different than the statement made by Lyndon Johnson when asked why he was nominating Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court? According to several Johnson biographies, he said, , “when I appoint a ni***r to the bench, I want everybody to know he’s a ni***r.” The Democrats hail Johnson as a hero and say that he had a "change of heart" about blacks in his later years. But, that statement was made 3 years AFTER Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Robert Parker, Johnson’s sometime chauffeur, described in his memoir Capitol Hill in Black and White a moment when Johnson asked Parker whether he’d prefer to be referred to by his name rather than “boy,” “ni***r” or “chief.” When Parker said he would, Johnson grew angry and said, “As long as you are black, and you’re gonna be black till the day you die, no one’s gonna call you by your goddamn name. So no matter what you are called, ni***r, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you’ll make it. Just pretend you’re a goddamn piece of furniture.”
Given what we experienced in the Kavanaugh hearings and with Judge Roy Moore in Alabama, Lyndon Johnson would not even be welcome in the Democratic Party today, simply because of statements he made 50 years ago. The Left makes no allowances for youthful indiscretions or for someone to actually mature into a different point of view.
But, that brings us back to Trump. There have been no white people in charge in Baltimore for decades. And, there have certainly been no white people living in those blighted areas that Trump identified. White people haven't done anything TO the black people in Baltimore. Those people are living in misery despite what white America, in the form of billions in tax dollars, have tried to do FOR them. Somewhere along the way, that money has been redirected SOMEWHERE.
The black "leaders" and elected officials in Baltimore are no different than the Somali warlords who stole all the food and let millions die of starvation. If Trump WERE racist, he might point this out and say that there must be something biologically inferior with blacks because they are engaging in the same behavior as their "savage" counterparts in Africa. But, even if he did so, it wouldn't make one iota of difference to those people suffering in those blighted neighborhoods.
Trump has been criticized, even by Fox News anchors, for not having presented his "plan" to fix the problems in Baltimore. That, in itself, demonstrates how supposedly educated people don't really understand how our government works. One anchor, Bill Hemmer, was interviewing the former governor of Maryland. He said something to the effect of "But, Governor, you were the highest elected official in Maryland. Why didn't you step in to fix those problems"?
No President or Governor can "fix" problems at the local level. Anyone ever heard of Home Rule? Cities have their own governments. The only way for a President or Governor to "step in and fix" local problems would be to declare martial law and send in troops.
Let's assume that Trump called Dr. Ben Carson into the Oval Office and said, "Listen, Ben. I really don't think those lazy black SOBs in Baltimore have the mental capacity to properly spend the $6.9 billion dollars we've given them this year, but I'm not going to stop it. Go down there and see what you can do".
Is that any different than the statement made by Lyndon Johnson when asked why he was nominating Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court? According to several Johnson biographies, he said, , “when I appoint a ni***r to the bench, I want everybody to know he’s a ni***r.” The Democrats hail Johnson as a hero and say that he had a "change of heart" about blacks in his later years. But, that statement was made 3 years AFTER Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Robert Parker, Johnson’s sometime chauffeur, described in his memoir Capitol Hill in Black and White a moment when Johnson asked Parker whether he’d prefer to be referred to by his name rather than “boy,” “ni***r” or “chief.” When Parker said he would, Johnson grew angry and said, “As long as you are black, and you’re gonna be black till the day you die, no one’s gonna call you by your goddamn name. So no matter what you are called, ni***r, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you’ll make it. Just pretend you’re a goddamn piece of furniture.”
Given what we experienced in the Kavanaugh hearings and with Judge Roy Moore in Alabama, Lyndon Johnson would not even be welcome in the Democratic Party today, simply because of statements he made 50 years ago. The Left makes no allowances for youthful indiscretions or for someone to actually mature into a different point of view.
But, that brings us back to Trump. There have been no white people in charge in Baltimore for decades. And, there have certainly been no white people living in those blighted areas that Trump identified. White people haven't done anything TO the black people in Baltimore. Those people are living in misery despite what white America, in the form of billions in tax dollars, have tried to do FOR them. Somewhere along the way, that money has been redirected SOMEWHERE.
The black "leaders" and elected officials in Baltimore are no different than the Somali warlords who stole all the food and let millions die of starvation. If Trump WERE racist, he might point this out and say that there must be something biologically inferior with blacks because they are engaging in the same behavior as their "savage" counterparts in Africa. But, even if he did so, it wouldn't make one iota of difference to those people suffering in those blighted neighborhoods.
