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Page 10 The Skanner February 1, 2017 News Trump Speaks of Ending ‘Carnage’ As He Enters Barber cont’d from pg 8 “As I said previously, it is quite simply wrong for the president to use his position of power to continue to make rac- onald Trump’s in- ist, sexist, and bigoted augural address statements that demean was heavy on American citizens in or- nationalism and der to score points with populism. It also was his political base,” wrote light on any attempt to Rep. Alcee Hastings bridge the divide be- hours after the inaugu- tween his supporters ration. “I will not play a and those who didn’t part in normalizing di- support him, thousands visive rhetoric that adds of whom marched in the nothing to the critical streets at record num- President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office during his conversations we face bers the day after his in- inauguration at the United States Capitol on January 20, 2017. in the near future.” augural. Hastings, along with Speaking for 16 minutes, the ties within a narrative of crime 62 other member of the House, new president made no attempt and problems as he often did did not attend. to reach out to those who did not during the 2016 campaign. How Trump will actually gov- Trump told the crowd of digni- ern, no one knows. He enters of- support him though he received 2.8 million fewer votes than his taries and other onlookers that fice as the oldest and least qual- challenger Hillary Clinton, the America has, “an education sys- ified individual to ever become largest popular vote margin loss tem flush with cash, but which President of the United States. for any elected president in his- leaves our young and beautiful Trump is the first person to be- students deprived of all knowl- come president, who has never tory. Trump now enters office with edge; and the crime and the gangs served in elected office or been the lowest approval numbers in and the drugs that have stolen too a member of the military. Many history and failed to comment in many lives and robbed our coun- Washington watchers believe any way on his predecessor, Pres- try of so much unrealized poten- that vice president, Mike Pence, ident Obama, during his speech. tial. This American carnage stops will likely play a key role in mov- ing Trump’s agenda forward. Trump did salute Bill and Hillary right here and stops right now.” However, research shows that Trump’s staff was quick to re- Clinton at congressional lunch after the inauguration ceremony. all crime, especially the murder write the WhiteHouse.org web- “I’m very honored” the Clintons rate, has declined over the last 20 site. A section on law enforcement came to my inauguration Trump years. “It was the meanest lowdown read, “the Trump Administration said in a rare act of graciousness speech I’ve ever heard,” said Rep. will be a law and order admin- unseen during the campaign. But Trump also went on to fur- Jaimie Raskin (D-Md.), a new istration. President Trump will honor our men and women in ther stereotype urban communi- member of the U.S. House. uniform and will sup- port their mission of protecting the public. The dangerous an- ti-police atmosphere in America is wrong. The Trump Adminis- tration will end it.” to connect the money to White evangelicalism to the policies of extrem- ism and racism, because some of our own folk are sending money to some of these TV White evan- gelicals.” Barber said that the loss of the full protec- tions of the Voting Rights Act and voter suppres- sion were two of the most underreported stories during the last election cycle. “Long before any Rus- sian hack, the American electoral process was hacked by systemic rac- ism and fear,” said Bar- ber. “The Southern Strat- egy is alive and well.” Barber acknowledged that civil rights leaders and Democrats could have voiced louder crit- icism about the lack of work done in the U.S. Congress to restore the Voting Rights Act. “Democrats talked more about David Dukes than they did about vot- er suppression and the Voting Rights Act being dismantled,” said Barber. Barber said that they were 868 fewer voting places across the nation; those closures dispro- portionately affected Black voters. “Voter suppression has been proven, voter fraud has been disproven. The lie about voter fraud is a distraction from the truth about voter sup- pression, because voter D SHEVRY LASSITER/THE WASHINGTON INFORMER By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Newswire Contributor We honor the many accomplishments of African Americans. It is our primary goal as a labor union to better the lives of all people working in the building trades through advocacy, civil demonstration, and the long-held belief that workers deserve a “family wage” - fair pay for an honest day’s work. A family wage, and the benefits that go with it, not only strengthens families, but also allows our communities to become stronger, more cohesive, and more responsive to their citizens’ needs. Our family wage agenda reflects our commitment to people working in the building trades, and to workers everywhere. 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You scratch a liar, you’ll find a thief,” said Barber. “Trump won because of the voter sup- pression that went on in the Black community.” After delivering brief history of fusion politics, a time when poor Whites and Blacks worked to- gether to achieve polit- ical power in the South following the Civil War, Barber questioned why so many poor, White people today cast votes for lawmakers that op- pose establishing living wage standards, better healthcare and more ed- ucational opportunities for low-income families. The North Carolina pastor noted that there are 18.9 poor White peo- ple in the United States, about eight million more than the number of poor Black people, though Black people experience poverty at higher rates than Whites. Barber said that explor- ing the real reasons why so many poor Whites vote against their own self-interest would make for a great investigative report. “Can we just make a decision, Black folks? Can we just make a de- cision, publishers? Can we just make a decision, civil rights…that bowing down is not an option?” Read the rest of this story at TheSkanner.com