{"id":20883,"date":"2020-07-04T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/trump-not-biden-has-helped-make-black-lives-better\/"},"modified":"2020-07-04T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T13:03:00","slug":"trump-not-biden-has-helped-make-black-lives-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/trump-not-biden-has-helped-make-black-lives-better\/","title":{"rendered":"#Trump \u2014 not Biden \u2014 has helped make black lives better"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Trump \u2014 not Biden \u2014 has helped make black lives better<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n I celebrated this New Year\u2019s Eve in Ghana, Africa. I\u2019d grown up poor with a mom addicted to drugs but started this decade far from the South Side of Chicago and amongst some of the most \u201celite\u201d black people in the world. With me was one of my best friends, Nate, an executive for one of the largest technology<\/a> companies in the world and a former Obama administration attorney; his brother-in-law, a surgeon who graduated from Harvard; a billionaire whose house party we all attended to ring in 2020; and many Hollywood celebrities, including Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker. This was to be the start of the best year of our lives.<\/p>\n

Back home in the US, African Americans were experiencing the best economy we have ever seen: Unemployment for our racial group was the lowest in recorded history, black wages were rapidly increasing for the first time in decades, and people who\u2019d been out of work long-term were being hired and suddenly able to take their families on vacations for the first time in years.<\/p>\n

The Trump policies made it possible. Tax cuts and rocketing GDP growth meant companies were feeling financially stable for the first time in a decade and public confidence in our economy had never been higher. Trump\u2019s re-election was on cruise control. Even Democrats were willing to admit that the chances of Trump losing were slim.<\/p>\n

No one could have predicted what would happ<\/a>en next.<\/p>\n

Since COVID-19, almost every economic benefit of the Trump presidency has evaporated. Unemployment has surged again \u2014 reaching numbers closer to the end of the Great Depression \u2014 and has impacted, as it has in every US downturn, African Americans the most. All this, coupled with the issues of race which still plague our country and the media<\/a>\u2019s incessant narratives of Trump \u201cbeing racist.\u201d In some cases, these wounds have been self-inflicted, as with Trump\u2019s recent retweeting of a white-supremacy video that used racist language, which the president later claimed he hadn\u2019t heard.<\/p>\n

The black vote will be the swing vote this year. And right now, it\u2019s looking like it\u2019s Joe Biden\u2019s for the taking. This is despite Biden\u2019s history, which is riddled with policies that have historically and devastatingly disenfranchised African Americans. For example, the 1994 crime law, which Biden helped author when he was a senator, incentivized local police departments to lock up as many black people as possible, creating mass incarceration<\/span> of African Americans, along with more prison cells and more aggressive policing. In addition, Biden was responsible for a provision in the 1986 crack law which came to be viewed as one of the most racially slanted sentencing policies on record: a rule that treated crack cocaine as significantly worse than powder cocaine and ended up disproportionately punishing African Americans<\/span> and sending them to prison but sparing white Americans who typically used cocaine.<\/p>\n

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Joe Biden, along with President Bill Clinton, helped author the 1994 crime law that devastated black communities across America.<\/span>AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We also must not forget the racially charged language Biden has used numerous times, including the notion that if you don\u2019t vote for him, \u201cyou ain\u2019t black.\u201d But politicians on both sides of the aisle have used offensive language, and what counts more, in my view, are deeds not words.<\/p>\n

I personally do not agree with everything President Trump says or does, and I often find myself on national TV as a conservative pundit saying exactly that. But I would be lying if I didn\u2019t tell you that Trump has been one of the most impactful presidents for African Americans from a policy perspective \u2014 and that\u2019s what matters.<\/p>\n

His recent police-reform executive order, the First Step Act, released thousands of people from jail (90 percent of whom were black). He has promoted \u201copportunity zones\u201d that incentivized private investment into marginalized communities, and also increased federal funding to historically black colleges and universities by 17 percent <\/span>\u2014 a total exceeding $100 million, more than any president in history. Meanwhile, the Obama administration infamously removed a two-year Bush-administration program<\/span> that annually funded $85 million directly to these prized institutions.<\/p>\n

As I mention in my book, \u201cTaken For Granted,\u201d<\/span> during the 2016 election Trump did something few Republicans had the courage to do \u2014 he targeted the black vote and spoke directly to African-American issues.<\/p>\n

He was not afraid of saying the \u201cwrong thing\u201d (and, yes, he sometimes did) while achieving the ultimate goal of creating real dialogue and opportunity in communities largely ignored by both parties. In return, he received only 8 percent of the black vote general<\/a>ly, and 12 percent of black men. (By comparison, Romney earned 6 percent of the black vote.) But after three years in office, having delivered on so many issues for black voters, Trump\u2019s support among black men had risen to 24 percent, according to one February poll.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although the polls now look bad for Trump, I often remind people that polls don\u2019t vote, and we are still four months from Election Day. At the same time, Trump cannot afford to sit on the sidelines or be complacent about the black vote.<\/p>\n

President Trump and Republicans have delivered for the black community on tangible policies that have had a positive impact \u2014 something the Democrats never achieved.<\/p>\n

Trump needs to remind African Americans about what he has accomplished and contrast it with Biden\u2019s record of failure, mass incarceration and racially charged language. I often say black lives don\u2019t matter to Democrats, black votes matter to them. And that party\u2019s lack of targeted policies benefiting African Americans proves just how much they take their votes for granted.<\/p>\n

Gianno Caldwell is a Fox News<\/a> political analyst and the author of \u201cTaken for Granted: How Conservatism Can Win Back the Americans That Liberalism Failed<\/span>\u201d (Crown Forum), out now.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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