Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Sun Center Studios, September 22, 2016 in Aston, Pennsylvania.
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‘What we have to do is use our history to propel us to make even more progress in the future, ‘ Obama said.
The first black president whacked the Republican nominee for his flimsy understanding of black history on Friday, mocking controversial comments about recent police killings of black men and the state of black America. The campaign said the Democratic candidate “emphasized the need to come together to stop the violence and restore the bonds of trust between police officers and the communities they serve”.
President Barack Obama says it would good for Donald Trump to visit the Smithsonian Institution’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture that is opening this weekend.
“Our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape that they’ve ever been in before”.
The New York businessman has sent mixed and at times unclear messages that could rankle African-Americans even as he called Thursday for a nation united in ‘the spirit of togetherness’. The distinction may matter little to voters, but helps Cruz to save face among his loyal supporters still unwilling to forgive Trump’s attacks on the Texas senator’s wife and father during their ugly and often intensely personal primary campaign.
“You’re living in poverty”, Trump said. “Our job is not to make life more comfortable for the violent disrupter, but to make life more comfortable for the African-American parent trying to raise their kids in peace, to walk their children to school and to get their children a great education”.
Trump’s campaign later suggested he was talking about America’s drug problem in general, not the protests that dominated cable news coverage the night before. Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton remain locked in a tight race as both struggle to unite their party’s behind them.
Of course, what Trump doesn’t seem to understand is that stop-and-frisk didn’t work “incredibly well” at all, and when challenged in the courts, the policy was ruled unconstitutional.
The 30-second ad shows young girls and women looking in the mirror as they hear Trump describe various women as “fat”, a “slob” and one who “ate like a pig”. The ad raises the question: “Is this the president we want for our daughters?” The vast majority of calls coming into Cruz’s office had turned increasingly negative in recent weeks with many voters urging him to support Trump to prevent a Clinton victory, according to Republicans familiar with the situation.
That’s what I tried to answer in my column analyzing Clinton’s claim that half of Trump supporters are racist, Islamophobic and the like.
Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts signed an order imposing a curfew from midnight on Thursday to 6am yesterday as protesters marched through the streets, their numbers smaller than on previous nights.
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Obama hopes that “people in the community pull together and say, ‘How do we do this the right way?'”
