For decades, Democrats have gotten away with making empty promises to Black Americans, and doing absolutely nothing to follow through on their promises.
But what about helping Black Americans to achieve the American dream? What about helping Black Americans to find jobs or with starting their own businesses?
After only 3 years on the job, President Trump was proudly boasting historically low unemployment numbers for Black Americans, including Black women and teens.
On December 12, 2019, with very little fanfare from the mainstream media, President Trump signed an executive order to establish the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council that would, according to President Trump, help to “provide the resources of the whole federal government will be leveraged to rebuild low-income and impoverished neighborhoods that have been ignored by Washington in years past.”
In December 2019, Politico published an article that questioned President Trump’s campaign for daring to attempt to appeal to Black voters in South Florida.
The Westside Gazette bills itself as “Broward County’s oldest and largest African American owned-and-operated newspaper.” For five decades, the Fort Lauderdale, Fla. weekly has catered to a staunchly Democratic readership.
So when readers opened an edition last month to find a full-page ad from President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, many couldn’t believe it. Why would he even bother?
“I thought it was quite abnormal,” said Bobby Henry, the newspaper’s publisher and CEO. He said a reader sought him out at church last weekend to ask what was up. “For [Trump] to reach out to the broader African American community is what surprised me.”
Yet that’s precisely what Trump is doing.
