I understand that President Donald Trump must try to win black votes. “Outreach” doesn’t offend me. If he can win over just 10 percent of blacks, that may be enough to take Pennsylvania or Michigan. Nonetheless, “outreach” is pointless if it doesn’t also turn out white voters, especially the Rust Belt working class that broke the Midwestern “Blue Wall” in 2016. There’s no sign President Trump’s campaign is doing that. Instead, he’s got a race-specific “Platinum Plan” for blacks that would mean hundreds of billions in handouts. This is an insult to whites.
The Platinum Plan would:
- Make “Juneteenth” a federal holiday
- Make the Minority Business Development Agency permanent, increase the number of black-owned government contractors, and increase loans and technical assistance
- Promote “second-chance hiring to get rehabilitated citizens with a criminal record back on the job,” thus building on the “First Step Act”
- “Eliminate long-standing healthcare disparities,” whatever their cause
- “Continue to protect the vital role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities”
There are many other provisions, for a total price tag is $500 billion. There are about 44,270,000 blacks. Why not just mail each black man, woman, and child a check for $11,295? Some of them would probably vote for him. ...
https://www.amren.com/commentary/2020/09/donald-trump-platinum-plan-racial-politics-pandering/
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