'Yet another racist dog whistle': Trump flattened over latest 'idiotic' slur
Donald Trump's comments about "Black jobs," made a week ago at the CNN debate with President Joe Biden, got a working over on July 4th when Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Jenice Armstrong called him out while noting that, for any other candidate, it would be a career killer.
Drowned out by concerns about Biden's performance was the former president asserting, "The fact is that his big kill on the Black people is the millions of people that he’s allowed to come in through the border. They’re taking Black jobs now — and it could be 18, it could be 19 and even 20 million people. They’re taking Black jobs, and they’re taking Hispanic jobs, and you haven’t seen it yet, but you’re gonna see something that’s going to be the worst in our history."
That led Armstrong to write, "I’m African American and a female as well as a columnist for a major metropolitan newspaper. There aren’t many other Black women who do what I do for a living. I can count maybe a handful of us spread out around the entire country. So, does that mean I have a 'white job'?"
According to the columnist, Trump's remarks are nothing less than a continuing thread of making racist remarks aimed at thrilling his MAGA base.
Pointing out that Trump harped on "Black jobs" at a rally in North Carolina a month ago, she wrote, "When he did it again during last week’s disastrous presidential debate, I had the same reaction. Stunned disbelief. Such an idiotic thing to say once, much less to have on repeat."
"It was yet another occasion when Trump’s white supremacy was on full display, and with virtually any other candidate at any other time, it would be instantly disqualifying. But Trump? He still has a good chance of becoming the nation’s next president," she explained before adding, "Trump bullies Joe Biden about his age, but he’s the one whose mindset is stuck in the 1950s. Back then, Black people were largely relegated to certain low-level, menial jobs, due to Jim Crow and systemic racial discrimination. Those are the so-called good old days Trump seems to want to get back to."
Noting that the former president made one of his first major inroads into politics by hyping up the "birther" conspiracy about President Barack Obama, she elaborated, "The Mad Men era Trump and so many of his supporters pine for is long gone. Our eyes are open. We’re woke, as they say, and proud of it."
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