{"id":46555,"date":"2016-08-18T20:09:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T00:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=46555"},"modified":"2016-08-18T20:09:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T00:09:08","slug":"trump-pulls-back-curtain-on-urban-plantations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=46555","title":{"rendered":"TRUMP PULLS BACK CURTAIN ON &#8216;URBAN PLANTATIONS&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">GOP nominee &#8216;making a real bid not only for black vote but for well-meaning white vote&#8217;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>WND.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46557\" style=\"width: 606px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/trump_thumbs_up.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46557\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46557\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/trump_thumbs_up.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"596\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/trump_thumbs_up.jpg 596w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/trump_thumbs_up-300x142.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donald Trump<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2016\/08\/trumps-unprecedented-bid-for-inner-cities\/\"><span class=\"s2\">push for black voters<\/span><\/a> with his well-received speech in Milwaukee was hailed as nothing less than historic by experts who have argued Democrats are vulnerable on racial issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dinesh D\u2019Souza, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/superstore.wnd.com\/Hillarys-America-Hardcover?promocode=MSTORY\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cHillary\u2019s America\u201d<\/span><\/a> and director and writer of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2016\/07\/top-10-highlights-of-hillarys-america\/\"><span class=\"s2\">blockbuster film of the same name,<\/span><\/a> said Trump\u2019s speech was a bold and necessary step for Republicans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHe is the first Republican that I\u2019ve seen in a long time to go in this direction,\u201d D\u2019Souza told WND. \u201cGenerally Republicans are very wary of this topic. They play nice, but they don\u2019t really address core issues. And it looks like Trump is making a real bid here not only for the black vote but for the well-meaning white vote. And by that, I mean I think this will benefit Trump not only with blacks but with whites. I think it shows a boldness to go where Republicans generally don\u2019t go.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">However, D\u2019Souza urged Trump to go farther.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHe\u2019s talking about something that\u00a0is quite right, which is that blacks are not better off under Obama, that the \u2018urban plantations,\u2019 as I call them, are places where misery, poverty, nihilism and despair reign. That this is the handiwork of the Democratic Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThey profess to be on the side of these people and what Trump is exposing is that Democrats\u2019 only interest in African-Americans and the inner cities is votes. They don\u2019t actually care if these people prosper or not. They\u2019re not trying to build ladders of opportunity. In fact, if they did, they\u2019re worried people would dust themselves off and walk off once they don\u2019t need the Democratic Party anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIf Trump can show he can address these arguments in a deep and historically informed way and fend off the inevitable screaming and counter-arguments that the left will put up, he needs to show that he knows what those arguments are. And this is where, I think, the book and movie <a href=\"http:\/\/superstore.wnd.com\/Hillarys-America-Hardcover?promocode=MSTORY\"><span class=\"s2\">\u2018Hillary\u2019s America\u2019<\/span><\/a> can help him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ben Kinchlow, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/superstore.wnd.com\/Black-Yellowdogs-Paperback?promocode=MSTORY\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cBlack Yellowdogs,\u201d<\/span><\/a> said Trump is finally pushing back against a campaign of \u201cbrainwashing\u201d that has convinced black\u00a0Americans that\u00a0Republicans are their enemies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>Related column:\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2016\/08\/trump-hits-one-out-of-the-park\/\"><i>Trump hits one out of the park<\/i><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s3\"><i> by Joseph Farah<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cBlacks are reacting to the decades-long propaganda from the left, and the media, that they are somehow not equal as citizens in this country,\u201d he said. \u201cThis brainwashing has successfully realized its ultimate goal, to convince them that the Democrats are responsible for their civil rights and freedoms, not the Republicans. Part of Trump\u2019s strategy should be to publicly incorporate black leaders into his political team. Of course, be aware that this same leadership will often be seen and portrayed as \u2018Uncle Toms\u2019 and, consequently, discredited.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kinchlow conceded Trump faces an uphill struggle and must circumvent the media to connect with African-Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIn order to win over the African-American voters, Trump must speak to them directly,\u201d he urged. \u201cHis black leadership needs to point out the true history of civil rights gains by blacks in this country. Blacks must be made aware that every civil rights bill from 1865 to 1965 was introduced and passed by a Republican majority in both houses. Unfortunately, a biased media has given credit for the last civil rights and voting rights acts to the Democrats. While they were signed by President Johnson, a Democrat, they were introduced and enforced by a Republican Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe purpose of a free press is to ensure that the citizenry was aware of the facts of any matter; they are to know the truth, not be subjected to propaganda. Unfortunately, the black community is totally unaware that every civil rights gain from freeing the slaves to freedom to vote were all passed by Republicans. The only reason blacks traditionally support Democrats is based on the false narrative that Democrats are the party of civil rights for blacks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>The forbidden truth about race in America, revealed at last! Here are the hard facts the anti-American left DOES NOT want you to know about who is really behind racism. <\/i><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/superstore.wnd.com\/Black-Yellowdogs-Paperback?promocode=MSTORY\"><span class=\"s2\"><b><i>\u201cBlack Yellowdogs\u201d by Ben Kinchlow, <\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a><b><i>available now in the WND Superstore.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Larry Elder, the \u201cSage of South Central,\u201d a well-known talk-show host and the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/superstore.wnd.com\/Dear-Father-Dear-Son-Two-Lives-Eight-Hours-AutographedHardcover?promocode=MSTORY\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cDear Father, Dear Son,\u201d<\/span><\/a> also urged Trump to stick with the direct approach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Video: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2016\/08\/trump-pulls-back-curtain-on-urban-plantations\/\">Democrats hope to turn red states blue<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHe gave straight talk, full on, no condescension,\u201d he enthused. \u201cA numerical minority of bad actors, often a product of welfare state-induced broken homes, ought not terrorize the law-abiding urban majority. Blaming hardworking cops is counterproductive and emboldens criminals. Trump should ask for self-reflection and that blacks drop the search for scapegoats. Blacks should recognize Democrat polices of welfare inducement, anti-growth economic policies, illegal immigration and lack of choice in schools define the Democratic Party\u2019s agenda and hurt the very blacks the party claims to care so much about.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Elder also stressed the importance of educating Americans about the shameful racial legacy of the Democratic Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThey\u2019ve been taught to think like victims, oblivious to the racist history of a Democratic Party,\u201d he charged. \u201cDemocrats want blacks to be angry about \u2018systemic racism\u2019 so that they will vote 95 percent Democrat after being supplied with a steady diet of propaganda telling them Republicans are racist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Elder also said there is no contradiction between Trump\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2016\/07\/trump-i-am-the-law-and-order-candidate\/\"><span class=\"s2\">law-and-order approach<\/span><\/a> and his outreach to African-Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe majority of people living in the city are law-abiding,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are other ones most hurt by lawlessness and by this unfair assault on police officers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">D\u2019Souza told WND there is a great opportunity to re-frame the entire narrative the Democrats have been using the entire campaign by taking the fight to them on racial issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe argument against Trump has been and is that he\u2019s a racist, a fascist, that he hates immigration and so on,\u201d D\u2019Souza said. \u201cThese words are used very loosely. We should turn the tables on the Democrats by showing the actual party of slavery and white supremacy and segregation and lynching and sympathy for fascism is the Democratic Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe Democratic Party is the actual party that supported and condoned enslaving people, burning them, stringing them up, making them drink out of separate water fountains. Terms like \u2018racism\u2019 have an actual concrete meaning, and they are much more legitimately attached to the Democrats than they are to Trump. Trump can sometimes be loose-lipped; he can sometimes be insensitive, but insensitive is not racist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ultimately, however, D\u2019Souza said what is at stake goes beyond one election. He urged Trump to do nothing less than dismantle the entire \u201curban plantation\u201d system ensnaring entire generations of black Americans. And, like Elder, D\u2019Souza believes Trump can do this without abandoning his \u201claw-and-order\u201d message.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe way to combine a law-and-order approach while appealing to black Americans is to speak of law and order in a way that protects the black community,\u201d said D\u2019Souza. \u201cLaw and order in the inner city is for the protection of blacks. And what we\u2019re seeing here isn\u2019t just a matter of the cop versus the black citizen; this is a matter of the \u2018urban plantations\u2019 boiling over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe left has created these horrible living spaces where the family has broken down, where there is very little opportunity, where nobody gets a good education. It breeds nihilism and despair, just like in the old slave plantation, which required a lot of force to hold it together. Slavery was based on stealing people\u2019s labor, and it required a lot of whips and a lot of violence to hold it together. Similarly today, the urban plantations are very tense places because people\u2019s aspirations are being crushed. I think if Trump speaks about that and speaks sympathetically about that, he can get at something beyond the interactions between the black citizen and the cop on the street.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Yet many conservatives are understandably skeptical about this. After all, claiming Democrats are the real racists and reminding African-Americans about the Republican Party\u2019s historic support for civil rights is hardly new. D\u2019Souza admits many blacks knew full well they were abandoning the Party of Lincoln for the Party of Segregation and the Klu Klux Klan in the 1930s, when the New Deal convinced many African-Americans to join the Democrats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Therefore, D\u2019Souza said Trump needs to do more than simply talk about the history of the Republican Party. Instead, D\u2019Souza urged Trump to expose the massive trap Democrats have laid for the African-Americans they constantly exploit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhat the Democrats have done, particularly with poor blacks, is offer them enough to make them dependent, but not enough to make them prosperous,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like letting down a rope from the top of a building, asking people to hang on while they pull you up. But they only pull you 10 feet off the ground and hold on after that. You\u2019re now stuck. They won\u2019t pull you up so you won\u2019t go higher, but you don\u2019t want to let go because you\u2019ll go crashing to the ground. You\u2019ve become dependent on the Democrats to pay your mortgage, they\u2019re giving you food stamps, they\u2019re giving you this and they\u2019re giving you that. So in a sense, many blacks are in a trap. We have to expose the trap so many blacks see there is another way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2016\/08\/trump-pulls-back-curtain-on-urban-plantations\/#Hv8Ihmu9TDdu12vv.99\">http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2016\/08\/trump-pulls-back-curtain-on-urban-plantations\/#Hv8Ihmu9TDdu12vv.99<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP nominee &#8216;making a real bid not only for black vote but for well-meaning white vote&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}