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To: zax who wrote (957831)	8/20/2016 10:13:20 AM
From: Bonefish	2 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo Old Boothby Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578097

It is a great pitch. the Dem pitch has been to keep blacks on the plantation, taking their vote for granted while the black community regresses. not working for blacks. Shameful!

To: zax who wrote (957831)

8/20/2016 12:56:35 PM

From: locogringo

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It’s hard to imagine a much worse pitch Donald Trump could have made for the black vote

Intelligent people that are not rabid partisan hacks have a different opinion:

Donald Trump´s Lincolnesque Moment

Today in Dimondale Michigan Donald Trump gave what was not only the best speech of his campaign but a speech that will one day be seen as a landmark in the emergence of a new Republican Party – a party finally returning to its roots as the party of Lincoln. If this sounds like hyperbole ask yourself what other Republican leader in recent memory has addressed America’s African American communities in this voice:

The African-American community has given so much to this country. They’ve fought and died in every war since the Revolution. They’ve lifted up the conscience of our nation in the long march for Civil Rights. They’ve sacrificed so much for the national good. Yet, nearly 4 in 10 African-American children still live in poverty, and 58% of young African-Americans are not working. We must do better as a country. I refuse to believe that the future must be like the past.

Trump’s Dimondale speech was a pledge to African Americans trapped in the blighted zones and killing fields of inner cities exclusively ruled by Democrats for half a century and more, and exploited by their political leaders for votes, and also used as fodder for slanders directed at their Republican opponents. This was his appeal:

Tonight, I am asking for the vote of every African-American citizen in this country who wants a better future. The inner cities of our country have been run by the Democratic Party for 50 years. Their policies have produced only poverty, joblessness, failing schools, and broken homes. It is time to hold Democratic Politicians accountable for what they have done to these communities. It is time to hold failed leaders accountable for their results, not just their empty words.