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As yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of Dr. King's death, I am wondering about how, if he were still alive, that he might view the progress in civil rights in the past 50 years, and what he would think of the current situation of minorities, both politically and socially.
I also think that Trump might have been elected partly as a reaction to the big leaps in civil rights and equal opportunity for ALL minorities during the Obama administration, but I could be wrong about that, so I am also wondering how others would account for Obama being elected to two terms and then someone like Trump being elected as his successor.
As yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of Dr. King's death, I am wondering about how, if he were still alive, that he might view the progress in civil rights in the past 50 years, and what he would think of the current situation of minorities, both politically and socially.
I also think that Trump might have been elected partly as a reaction to the big leaps in civil rights and equal opportunity for ALL minorities during the Obama administration, but I could be wrong about that, so I am also wondering how others would account for Obama being elected to two terms and then someone like Trump being elected as his successor.
Thoughts?
Bush helped create a perfect storm where a political neophyte with plenty of skeletons in his closet could get elected.
We would have eventually had a black president anyway, but Obama was in the right place at the right time, and was aided by the leftist media.
Then Obama and his ideologically driven leftist/liberal policies turned enough people off to create another perfect storm to elect someone like Trump.
Had our society not been so controlled and infected with PC, then someone like Trump would have seemed less impressive. However much of America was sick of the leftist brainwashing of PC, and Trump was the only candidate in either party who was not afraid to speak his mind without all the typical double speak.
That combined with a horrible choice in Hillary made Americans choose Trump.
So despite your tendencies to want to associate race with electing Trump, or as the socialist Van Jones claimed a "white lash" the aforementioned was the primary reason.
Funny how Hillary being white never dawned on Jones and his ilk when they assumed that a country who twice elected a black person was voting based on race, despite the fact both candidates were white.
As yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of Dr. King's death, I am wondering about how, if he were still alive, that he might view the progress in civil rights in the past 50 years, and what he would think of the current situation of minorities, both politically and socially.
I also think that Trump might have been elected partly as a reaction to the big leaps in civil rights and equal opportunity for ALL minorities during the Obama administration, but I could be wrong about that, so I am also wondering how others would account for Obama being elected to two terms and then someone like Trump being elected as his successor.
I also think that Trump might have been elected partly as a reaction to the big leaps in civil rights and equal opportunity for ALL minorities during the Obama administration, but I could be wrong about that...
Thoughts?
What were MLKs minority interest goals outside of Blacks? What minorities are you referring to when you cite ALL minorities?
You're conflating "big leaps in civil rights" with "personal political interests". There were no major civil rights issues in this nation before Obama, but the Left is good a inventing issues to justify its existence and to dismantle the politics and social structures of its perceived enemies.
Second, you are blind to the flagrant and unnecessary sociopolitical agitation that Obama was responsible for because you perceive it as "natural" and "justice" instead of what it was.
For instance, you don't have to go searching for some vague notion of mass rebellion that led to Trump's election, because Obama met your political agendas, to find the popular reason for Trump support.
You only have to look at the pre-election period where the Obama justice department decided to make a federal case out of Daren Wilson for rightly doing his job. That single national event alone could justify mass support for Trump. And there are many, many more such agitations of varying prominence.
Obama was an extremist. When you push the bounds of the barely holding center, you are likely to get pushback. And you did. Obama's social justice warrior extremism, aided by the SJW and anti-White media, pretty much assured that Trump would get elected.
I also think that Trump might have been elected partly as a reaction to the big leaps in civil rights and equal opportunity for ALL minorities during the Obama administration
What sort of leaps?
I was conscious during the Obama administration and i can't recall any leaps
Trump's election IMO was a result of having a 2 term President before him (fairly common for the electorate to decide to go for the other party after 8 years) and a poor candidate in Clinton. Don't think civil rights for African Americans had anything to do with it.
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the aforementioned was the primary reason.
