CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Donald Trump on Wednesday laid out his "new deal
for Black America" to a predominantly white crowd, narrating a bleak and
unrealistic picture of black communites and casting himself as the man
to fix it.
Trump laid out three foundational principles
that would guide his deal with African-American voters: safe
communities, great education and higher paying jobs. In order to
accomplish these goals, Trump promised more police on the streets,
proposed designating "blighted communities" with "disaster designation"
in order to spur their rebuilding and swore to stop illegal immigration.
The speech, billed as remarks on urban renewal
and inner cities, spoke to the black experience writ large in this
country as one where black Americans lack job opportunities and safe
communities. As Trump does during most of his appeals to the community,
the GOP nominee described inner cities as places where "you walk to the
store to buy a loaf of bread, maybe with your child, and you get shot,
your child gets shot."
He did not address gun control, nor his commitment to the Second
Amendment. And Trump did not mention the ongoing tension between the
black community and law enforcement, even after a long pattern of
shooting deaths of African-American men and women by police have rocked
these communities.
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