09-21-2016, 05:33 PM
(09-21-2016, 03:17 PM)Duchess Wrote:
Can I have your opinion, please? Good idea, bad idea or are you indifferent? What would y'all think of a nationwide stop & frisk agenda?
I wondered why you posed this question and wrongly assumed that it was in relation to the recent domestic terrorist bombing.
I see now that Trump said at a closed town hall that he applauded the stop & frisk policies used by Guiliani when he was mayor and that Trump would consider establishing it as a nationwide policy to help reduce crime in predominantly black areas.
That's surely going to turn off way more black voters than it will win over, in my opinion. They don't like being profiled by police and a Federal Judge ruled the NYPD policy unconstitutional and discriminatory like 3 years ago. Doh.
I also heard Trump, in his African American outreach effort, claim that African Americans have never had it worse in this country; "never, ever, ever", he said. That was weird. It's good that he's now acknowledging racial inequities, but his rhetoric was so blatantly false. I imagine very few people, black and otherwise, believe that blacks were better off in this country when they were slaves and considered 'property', when they were not allowed in white establishments, when they were not allowed to vote or participate in the political process, when there were no civil rights guarantees, etc...
Town Hall story: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-el...SKCN11R2NZ