In the late 1960s, much of Martin Luther King’s work was directed at improving the conditions for black Americans, with a pragmatic approach of eradicating poverty, unemployment and the many other dead ends that hindered a path to the American Dream.
Many of those hindrances remain, and not until now, with a President Donald Trump about to take office, has there been such an opportunity to demolish the constraints that have stifled opportunity in minority neighborhoods.
He considers it a personal challenge.
Last fall, breaking the GOP template, Trump had a conversation with parishioners at a largely African-American church in Detroit — a Democratic stronghold.
“We talk past each other and not to each other,” he told the congregation. “And those who seek office do not do enough to step into the community and learn what’s going on. I’m here today to learn, so that we can together remedy injustice in any form, and so that we can also remedy economics so that the African-American community can benefit economically through jobs and income and so many other different ways.”
Similarly in North Carolina, he rolled out a “New Deal for Black America”:
“That deal is grounded in three promises: safe communities, great education and high-paying jobs,” Trump said. “I will further empower cities and states to seek a federal disaster designation for blighted communities” to allow “the rebuilding of vital infrastructure, the demolition of abandoned properties and the increased presence of law enforcement so we have safety in our community.”
Trump intends to clean up crime-plagued neighborhoods across the country, make them safer and bring in jobs and prosperity.
He endeavors to give black Americans a real shot at the American Dream in a way that only a non-politician can.
Trump is bent on fixing what was thought to be unfixable.
“It is my highest and greatest hope that the Republican Party can be the home in the future and forevermore for African-Americans and the African-American vote because I will produce, and I will get others to produce,” he’s said.
Trump has had numerous conversations with prominent African-Americans since he was elected, including Steve Harvey, who said, “We’re going to team up and see if we can bring about some positive change in the inner cities, which I felt was my only agenda and he agreed. And he wants to do something.”
And he will do something.
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The current approach doesn’t help black Americans. Only a fool would expect Jesse Jackson to come up with any real solutions. His way is the way of continued failure.
One potentially different approach is to treat blacks as equals in their ability to become accountable and suffer the corrective lessons of their own failures, pay for their own mistakes and thereby LEARN from their social mistakes, instead of throwing money at black communities to socially COVER the individual failures that become collective community failures and thereby never allowing the problems to be exposed and the individual as well collective communities to get corrected. Good God if every time I failed as a young man my parents, teacher, politician or some social worker told me it was someone else’s fault I never would have become successful. The good father and the good father figure President DISCIPLINES the children and followers he loves,so they get the REAL opportunity to correct themselves, not the politically dictated equal opportunity to become mediocrity,,,the bad politician/father who hates just ignores and lets them run wild to become non-SELF-governing Democrats.
Iluminatuo, that is spot on. FOR Far too long we just keep tossing yet more and more money at the problem and NOT holding those who CAUSE those problems to account.
Look at all the times FEDERAL and STATE money is used to rebuild disaster spots CAUSED by these gangs and rioters.. Or moddy coddle the whiners on the left by STOPPING effective policing procedures which were PROVEN to lead to less crime in general (Mayor Guilliani and his broken windows policy)..
ASSIMILATE and do. your share to be a good AMERICAN. Or. GO back to AFRICA, LIBERIA its your COUNTRY!!!
Can anyone tell me just how Democrats have helped the Black community?
You have to help yourself before anyone else can help you. Continuously blaming everything that happens to you on slavery that happened a 150 years ago is not the answer. Rioting, looting, and burning down your neighborhood is not the answer. Everyone in America has the chance to better themselves, especially with all the programs available to utilize. You have to make up your own mind and be determined that you can and will rise above your circumstances. I left my parent’s home with nothing and made my life work by joining the Navy. It all starts with you and your own responsibility. Plus the biggest piece of advice that I can give anyone, is to believe and trust in GOD.
Can a Different Approach Help Black Americans?
Not unless it is made by the Americans that happen to be black. It is time for re-education… Time for the American Cash Cow to go DRY and forestall getting pregnant again for at least a generation. You farmers will know what I mean….
True dat gadget.. As the age old adage goes.. WE can lead the horse to water, but we can’t make it drink..
THE blacks want to NEED to change before we can help them change.
In other words, how many more trillions do we have to waste?
Money does not solve this issue. There is no excuse why 5 generations are on welfare. Once money thrown at this is removed, you either go hungry or work. Make drug testing mandatory – if you are actively looking for a job, and can’t find one, do community service.
And repairing the infrastructure THEY have demolished is as stupid as paying someone to repair the house they broke.. Its insane and just lets them know, every time they want something, just break it and someone else will repair/replace it..
The solution, if it ever comes, will come from the base. It will require the institution of the work ethic, the love of learning, and a respect for society. All of which starts in the home, and is to be enhanced by the community.
Think Neighborhood Watch, Welcome Wagons, Libraries, Volunteers. Spare me rap concerts and roundball. Attitude is everything.
True change for the negro race will only happen when black MEN step up and join the human race instead of gangs, government dependence, and the democrat party. Marry the woman BEFORE you impregnate her, and raise your children to respect authority, believe in God, get an education, and become productive members of society. Stop believing they are victims, and do the WORK necessary to succeed. Black MEN, you aren’t tied to the whipping post any more, stop acting like you are.
Help from outside won’t work, at least not if it’s only material help. There has to be an attitude change among the people living in the blighted areas. Building a better infrastructure won’t help if the people using it don’t take responsibility for using and maintaining it once it’s built. High-paying jobs won’t come to a neighborhood where businesses routinely get trashed, robbed, and/or burned, and even outside the blighted areas no one can get one of those high-paying jobs until he or she is capable of doing the work and willing to work hard. And pouring money — even skilled teachers — into schools won’t do any good unless students are willing to behave themselves, learn, and (again) work hard.
I want to be fair to the black community and to suggest that they should shut up about slavery isn’t the way to go because as late as the 60’s they got their heads kicked in just trying to vote.And not so long ago they had to go to the back of the bus and the indignities they suffered and the two thirds human are not easily forgotten.Then add the money making race hucksters and the Farrakhans leaves me a bit pessimistic because as soon as one passes another pops up.This is a difficult issue because the past can’t be erased so it will have to begin in the home,black fathers and mothers are the only ones in a position to make lives better for their children and they need to teach them that white people of today are not the problem.Ben Carson’s mother knew racism and so didn’t Ben but look at him now.What happened,did happen and unless people come to grips with it things will remain as they are,black people leaning on the crutch of victimization.
I wish people would educate themselves. The three-fifths clause was an ANTI-SLAVERY clause. The slaveholding South wanted to count their slaves for the purpose of apportionment of congressmen. The Non-slaveholding North wanted to get rid of slavery. Wanting to keep the South in the minority in the House of Representatives, the North opposed it. The compromise was slaves were counted as three-fifths for apportionment; keeping the South in the minority and leading to the eventual end of slavery.
Try reading a history book!
See Freedom’s Journal Insitute website for thoughtful insights from black Americans to correct the destructive, dependency, victimization narrative that has destroyed the black family and the black community. The Democrat party and their allies in the media, entertainment, education and now the sports world have tried to make blacks feel powerless and feel the need for Big Government to take care of their needs. People who feel dependent on government will vote for more of it. We need people who will encourage their communities to take charge of their own lives and be proud of their achievements. It begins with faith and education and strong intact families.
[ It begins with faith and education and strong intact families.]
All three are things commonly lacking in black households.. ESPECIALLY the latter 2!
Obama/Clinton’s National Socialist Democrat Party has no intention of helping the minority groups. Their motto is the 3 D’S, keep them dumb, drugged and dependent and they will continue to vote for their party.
The dems are the real racists. Their party depends on keeping the ghetto blacks poor to get more votes.
Not a penny has been spent on cleaning up the BAGs (Black American Ghettos). Instead they are kept dependent on welfare and food stamps by KING OBAMA THE TRAITOR and his RACIST/RACE-BAITING agenda. Wait till Trump is prez cause he’s gon bring about some real change.
Also the minister lady(i dont remember when women were allowed to be priests/ministers/reverends) looks like this lady who bought a hamburger at mcdonalds and after eating most of the burger she complains that the tomatoes weren’t fresh enough. After that she would whine and complain to the staff and manager and finally get a coupon for a free burger or something, then she would take the coupon and drive across town to the other mcdonalds and buy another burger there and not contemplate that the cost of the amount of car fuel she wasted is higher than how much she would paid for the original burger. That is what she looks like.
That reminds me of something that happened when i was stationed in Norfolk back in 93-95. One of the local food store chains (can’t remember which right now), used to have it that if you came across a piece of food (boxed/tinned) that was out of date, or butcher area meat that was out of date (Or had holes punched in it) you could bring it up to the ‘guest services’ counter, hand them all in, and you would receive a COUPON for the value OF those items of food.. So not only would the store lose OUT in the sale price of the food, but would be out the same amt of money in a ‘gift coupon’.
After it became common knowledge though, several stores were routinely RAIDED by ‘all-black families’ of 4-7 adults, and 12-20 kids (most in their early teens), who would literally EMPTY shelves of canned goods, so they could scan through them and just toss the ones which were properly dated back on the shelf (any order, those families never gave a ****, and even if asked/ordered to leave the store, they would get ‘pissy with the manager’ and threaten lawsuits for racism), all the out of date stuff would then be tossed into the adult’s shopping carts..
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They would then also have some of the younger kids, literally R down the meet in picking some of the PRICIEST food there, and putting holes in it..
They would then turn in all they had found, and used that coupon to get their weekly/monthly shopping in ANOTHER store..
IIRC after 2 years they stopped that practice.. ALL CAUSE of those black gangs.. AND THEY NEVER ever apologized to all the OTHER shoppers in that store, some of which had THEIR shopping baskets/carts overturned/rummaged through by these thugs…
One of the smaller stores of that chain i used to love going into (made some of the tastiest crunchy french bread i have ever had stateside) had one incident that made local news, where those ‘smash and grab’ raids (as the news called it) knocked over several older folk, and NOT ONE of the adults in that ‘raid’ ever bothered picking them up or helping them out.. AND even assaulted the store manager when he tried to boot them out.. so 9 cop cars got called in…