Is Donald Trump promising Black Americans a new dawn 'or same old same old'?
So, now we have it, Donald Trump asking, no, telling African/Black Americans that, all they have to lose is 'their chains.' Yes, although he stopped at "What have you got to lose", what he is likely to have in mind, is the second phrase of the sentence --- 'but your chains'. 'Trust me, and I will set you free', is the subliminal message he is communicating to them.
This begs the question as to what Donald Trump is upto? Has he, all of a sudden, becomes the friend of the Black American; is he to become a present day 'abolitionist', if we are to believe that the African America, to a large extent, is still having his living and his aspirations seriously compromised by the continuing vestiges of the slaveocracy on which much of the nation is built?
Can he, Donald Trump, claim any legitimacy to be perceived of as the modern-day John Brown, who is going to set Black Americans - Africans, Hispanics and others - free from being the main product which the American Justice system preys on? Free them from being over-represented in the non-white and blue-collar crime, the drugs industry, and the unemployment and unemployability sections of American society?
If Mr Trump is to become the White Knight in Armour, riding to the rescue of Black Americans, then, what would that say of other leaders like President Obama, and Presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton?
Why does Mr Trump, three months before the American Presidential elections, sees it fit to declare himself the friend of the Black Americans, after having done such a successful job alienating all or most 'people of colour' in the United States? Having declared himself, effectively, not to be a friend of the Latinos and Mexicans, not to be the friend of Muslims, including American Muslims, and not to be the friend of immigrants?
Could it be all down to political expediency and strategy; has Mr Trump's Republicon advisors been telling him that he needs the Black American votes, and that he has to be nice and civil to them? Has he suddenly been made to realise that it is he and the Republicons who need their votes, and not them needing his presidency?
And, what is all this apparent bribery talk about 95 per cent of Black Americans would vote for him, after he has had 4 years - the gods forbid that there should be such a thing - in power? What is he going to do for Black Americans that is going to cause them to trust and be loyal to him in such vast numbers; is he going to bewitch them?
So, Mr Trump, do tell us how you propose to help the Black Americans break the chains which have so securely bound them for all these years. Yes, tell us of your diagnosis and your prognosis for improving the conditions of the Americans of colour, particularly the African American. Of the communities which are being oppressed by American criminal justice system, being trapped in criminality, drug addiction, poor educational achievement, higher rates of unemployment, dilapidated housing and neighbourhoods, poor health and poverty? All conditions which have tended to be disproportionately the inheritance of poor Americans, in general, but especially of Black Americans.
Yes, like the modern-day 'medicine man' you presume yourself to be, tell us about your elixir, and of how you will apply it, without losing your appeal amongst many of your poor White Americans, whose alienation you are using to fuel your quest for the White House?
Donald Trump as the new Messiah of the U.S.?
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