You might not like these words but they were true then and they are true now.
To understand this man (sic)……. You must know that historically there are two kinds of slaves. House Negroes and Field Negroes. The house Negro lived in the big house; he dressed pretty good; he ate pretty good, and he loved the master. Yes, he loved him more than the master loved himself. If the master's house caught fire, he'd be the first to put the blaze out. If the master got sick, he'd say: "What's a matter, boss; we sick?" We sick! If someone said to him, "Let's run away and escape. Let's separate." He'd say, "Man, are you crazy? What's better than what I got here?" That was the House Negro. In those days he was called the House Nigger. Well, that's what we call them today because we still got a lot of House Niggers running around - Malcolm X.
From Tim Scott to Bryon McDonald’s, to the once unknown pastor of the 180 Church who taking the tithes from a community who might not know they are being Jacked. Misinformation is the problem. I don’t have a problem with DJT coming to a black church or any church for that matter. What I do have a problem with is for a pastor to know knows the devil when he sees them still let’s him and his disciples in so they can grift and con more deluded people out of their vote and their money. That is beyond the pale. This pastor uses his pulpit to pimp his parishioners for his own good.
Mr. Trump when asked how he would address Black entrepreneurship. “The biggest thing we can do is stop the crime,” he said. To see a sea of red hats in an audience, which was not predominantly Black, as they cheered at the remark. NO! The biggest thing you could have done is pump some money into small black owned businesses.
One attendee Chef Omar Mitchell, a Detroit restaurant owner who participated in the church roundtable, said he supports Trump because "money was pumping" when he was president. That statement right here is just a bold face lie that really needs to be fact checked.
Mr. Omar Mitchell owned a fine dining restaurant called Table No. 2 on Detroit’s Avenue of Fashion. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, the restaurant had to close temporarily. After three years, he revived Table No. 2 in downtown Detroit. The restaurant reopened on Mother’s Day, May 14.
What really happened to the Chef is not what I would call Poppin:
Chef Omar Mitchell during the American Pandemic:
Mitchell, like nearly all business owners, is hoping for some sort of financial lifeline in the form of loans or grants to get through the crisis. He’s applied to SBA loans, Payroll Protection, Techtown Detroit’s small business assistance program, a program through the James Beard Foundation, and more. So far, he’s heard from none of them. He’s currently working to get more opportunities through organizations and the city of the Detroit, to cater large orders for essential workers as a way to continue serving the public.
Mitchell estimates he can make it another month this way before having to make more tough choices. “This is very, very, very terrifying for me, because I’ve worked so hard at becoming a stellar restaurant and to see it potentially crumble overnight is very fearful for me,” he says.
While his business is in danger, he’s most concerned about his employees who he says have few options and were already experiencing personal and financial challenges prior to the novel coronavirus pandemic. “I am their backup plan and if their backup plan fails, well, then I failed them.” -
Breanna Houck - Reporter - Eater Detroit, April 2020
So no money was not pumping as he stated. Now he is serving steaks at $65 a plate, I suspect no one from the 180 Church neighborhood will be fine dining there anytime soon. Just tell the truth Mr. Mitchell. You struggled like everyone else. There was no reason to lie about something that could be checked.
Facts:
Instead of aid black entrepreneurship, during the Trump Administration at the height of covid, “over 90% of Black-owned small businesses that applied for PPP funding were denied. This has led to over 40% of Black-owned small businesses being shuttered during COVID-19, and if provided a loan, black businesses were more likely to be offered one at higher interest rates than similar white-owned businesses would obtain, thereby increasing their operating costs.”
When Trump took office, he dismantled the pandemic response unit created under the Obama-Biden administration. He also shut down the social and behavioral committee that helps inform the White House on how people embedded in social institutions like education, hospitals, prisons, grocery stores and restaurants, and neighborhoods might be disproportionately affected based on their urban or rural environments. In a global report on pandemic responses, the United States ranked 175th on healthcare access out of two hundred countries. Early on during the pandemic, Black people were six times more likely to be turned away from COVID-19 testing and treatment once at the hospital. So much for caring about the black community..
I NEED MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS TO DO THEIR HOMEWORK.
Trump also stated in the speech, that the Black community "is being hurt" by people in the country illegally, adding, "They're invading your jobs." What the hell is he talking about? Invading our jobs. What jobs? And who are '‘they” specifically? Trump adapted his dominant campaign theme of limiting immigration by saying Black people were most affected by immigrants coming in and taking jobs. Nope. We no longer wipe the asses of little white babies and clean missus toilet, cooking the food and taking the leftovers home, so what is he talking about.
These same people talking about Make Black America Great Again. Forget for the MAGA kind the only good black was a lynched or executed black. Not one of those black people ask trump to apologize to the Central Park Five. Not one. So, while Trump has insisted, he's not a racist repeatedly, we have the receipts to prove otherwise.
According to John R. O'Donnell, the former president of Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino's 1991 book Trumped, the ex-president told O'Donnell,
"I have black guys counting my money. … I hate it. The only guys I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes all day." He went on to say the controversial statement that "Laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that." - Donald J. Trump
Trump has routinely bragged about saving the suburbs after he scrapped an Obama rule requiring localities to track patterns of segregation or lose federal funding. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development replaced the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Act with a much weaker rules, using a waiver to exempt the new regulation from public-comment requirements. Public comments allow people to weigh in on proposed rules before they’re finalized. But by bypassing that critical step, the agency essentially expedited a months-long process without any public input.
“He’s using absolutely baseless fear of crime and decreased property value as attempted triggers to get at white anxiety about living with people of color — and African Americans in particular — and the idea of integration itself,” said Thomas Silverstein, a counsel in the Fair Housing & Community Development Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. “Not only is he being basically explicitly racist here,” Silverstein said. “He’s also just operating in a fact-free environment, immune to any sort of empirical evidence about housing policys.
Trump baffled HBCU leaders when he claimed he saved their institutions by signing bipartisan legislation that included annual funding for historically Black colleges and universities. The bill is a 10-year renewal of funding. During Obama’s eight years in office, mandatory HBCU funding ranged from almost $80 million to $85 million per year. The same has been true during Trump’s administration. Under Obama, the federal government invested more than $4 billion in HBCUs over seven years. And while federal funding for HBCUs has been renewed under Trump’s presidency, Trump has not publicly acknowledged that the renewal is the result of congressional appropriations.
“Congress does all this work and presents it to him in the budget, and he can choose to sign it. This year, he held off on signing some significant STEM funding, making HBCUs beg for it,” Rutgers professor and leading HBCU authority Marybeth Gasman told the Washington Post. “Trump has promised all kinds of things to HBCUs and has followed through on little. Under Trump, the White House Initiative for HBCUs was moved to the White House and is quite quiet compared to the work under President Obama’s administration.”
And finally, if it were up to him the community he visited and others like it would never get any justice. Under the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice took steps to undermined efforts to decrease racist and hostile encounters between Black and Brown Americans and law enforcement. The Trump administration has purposely halted consent decrees and Department of Justice police department investigations. Trump’s Justice Department, under Attorney General Bill Barr’s direction, “attempted to block hundreds of eligible beneficiaries” from being released and has tried to send those who have been released back behind bars,
according to the Sentencing Project. “The department tried to freeze applications or re-incarcerate former inmates by setting higher standards for their release.”
Trump reinstituted the federal death penalty. Seven people have been executed this year under the policy — And there are fifty-five federal death-row prisoners. Twenty-five are African Americans, twenty-two are white, seven are Latino and one is Asian. Trump had appointed the most Appeals Court judges since President Jimmy Carter. Not one of them was Black.
Once trump left the church in the “Hood.” He went to the right wing racist right-wing rally at the Downtown Conference Center to hang out with his Proud Boy KKK and Nazi Friends. Oh, Happy Days.
Wake up Everyone. All hands on deck. This Grift is real. And looks like a lot of House Negroes in on the game.
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Anyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, creed, gender orientation, etc., who believes TFG gives a hot damn about anyone but himself, is fooling themselves or hopelessly and willfully ignorant. And, his route to power (and to escape accountability) runs directly through rich, predominantly white male "Christians", their family connections and lackeys, and the uneducated, gullible rural white voters in key swing states who have nothing but anger and who buy the right-wing propaganda.