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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
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suppression is about
thievery. 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?”
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