Trump at a Black Church in Detroit: What He Should Have Said - Larry Elder

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Trump at a Black Church in Detroit: What He Should Have Said

Here's what Donald Trump, at the black church in Detroit, should have said:

"In the words of Malcolm X, blacks have been 'political chumps.' At the time, he said that 80 percent of blacks voted Democratic in hopes of a civil rights bill, but President John Kennedy, in the opinion of a lot of black leaders, dragged his feet so as not to lose the South come re-election time. In the last presidential election, 95 percent of blacks voted Democratic.

"I indict the Democratic Party for creating family-destroying dependency; deepening unemployment with minimum-wage laws; burdening job creators with excessive taxes and regulations; increasing crime by falsely maligning the police -- the overwhelming majority of whom are hardworking, honest public servants of all colors; and for stoking anger by playing the race card for votes.

"I want to remind you that the Democratic Party is the party of slavery and Jim Crow, and that, as a percentage of the party, more Republicans voted for the passage of the hallmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 than did Democrats.

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