'Raw deal': Analyst shames Trump for luring Black voters with 'bait and switch'

President Donald Trump has “prioritized the wrong values,” according to Washington Post columnist Theodore R. Johnson. And the minority groups he courted during the presidential campaign are paying for it.

The promises Johnson believes are not being kept come from the “Platinum Plan,” which Trump allegedly touted as his method of economically empowering Blacks.

“In exchange for support at the ballot box, Trump offered measures such as ‘equitable lending programs’ for Black communities, the creation of 500,000 new Black-owned businesses, and the establishment of ‘diversity training and accreditation standards’ for police departments,” Johnson said.

The scholar of Black electoral politics claims the promise of “diversity training and racial equity” was “mostly a bait and switch.”

“Trump has used the bully pulpit and executive orders to unleash an offensive against diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, which seeks to forbid most of the actions he once proposed,” Johnson wrote.

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One of Trump’s first Executive orders enacted an “anti-diversity agenda that purged women, people of color, and programs from federal websites and libraries. Trump directed the firing of multiple generals and admirals who are Black, female, or responsible for the military following the rule of law.”

After this, health programs that research sickle cell disease and maternal mortality received funding cuts. “He promised to 'make the Minority Business Development Agency permanent' and 'create a sub-office of African American Affairs'; today, the office has been gutted.”

Other broken promises included his “pledge to increase Black business opportunities with the federal government, but canceled contracts.” Trump also said he “would prosecute the Ku Klux Klan as a terrorist organization, but pardoned white nationalists.”

“Black voters who bought Trump’s pitch have learned they’re getting a raw deal,” Johnson opined. “Trump asked Black voters in 2016, ‘What the hell do you have to lose?’ The answer now seems much clearer.”