It's interesting to me how often you tell me I have no understanding of black people. But I know you to be a white guy, so what makes you such an expert? I grew up in DC/PG Co. MD, and I live in NYC. I know you like to make much of playing basketball, but I don't think that tells a whole community story. Do not tell me that African American people to me are an "abstraction." That assumes too much and is completely insulting, given what I've exposed to you about my personal story.
For one thing, Mr. Obama himself generalized about and "stereotyped" black Americans in the midst of the Donald Sterling controversy a couple years ago when he said that the NBA was "integral to African-American culture". So why don't you contradict your beloved president? For once, he was actually right about something when he said that.
Being integrally involved with basketball is not simply about watching the ball go through the hoop and knowing the rules of the game. It exposes you to the psychology, mindset, musical preferences, and predilections of the people involved. It is a matter of character, personality, and psychology, not merely a preference of one sport over another. I have been to a range of different sporting events throughout my life, from NBA basketball games, to football games in the ghetto, to baseball games in the South, to ATP tennis events. The cultural differences of those in attendance are immense. When I am at Cincinnati watching tennis, I see rich white females texting and whispering to each other about their boyfriends or players who are cute. When I am at a football game in the hood, I hear people cussing out the refs. When I am at a baseball game in the South, I hear country music being played between innings. I could list a hundred other differences, but I will just leave it at this for the moment.
Unless you have been heavily involved with modern basketball or football and been exposed to contemporary black music on a regular basis, it is nearly impossible to understand the black cultural mindset that goes into something like the police brutality issue. It is a matter of knowledge, information, and understanding, not intentions or wishes.
On top of all this this, I have worked at an inner-city school and I have a friend who worked in an all-black inner-city school for 3 years. I have a wealth of experiences and anecdotes to draw from in forming my opinions that go beyond the white leftist cliches that Obama learned from his white influences. Obama's words fit a preconceived script designed by white leftists.
Donald Trump, by his own admission, doesn't actually have that many friends. He has endorsements, and I don't see why self-aggrandizers like Rodman and Tyson make a difference in terms of his collegiality with AA people.
Which just proves my point about how little you understand them.
Also note the make-up of the people who get argued with and decked at his rallies.
Right, they are either white Moveon.org leftists or #BlackLivesMatter protesters, who usually happen to be black. The individual who got punched by the old white guy had been giving people the finger and shouting obscenities to disrupt the rally for Trump. He was trying to instigate and annoy people. But you need to stop generalizing - not all black people are BlackLivesMatter protestors. That is a very offensive stereotype. You may recall my link about how Tavis Smiley said he is hearing from many of his black listeners that they plan on voting for Trump, or you may recall this video of two black women rallying for Trump:
I will leave the German-American woman caught in the Nazi salute at a Trump rally on Twitter as huge misunderstanding, for the moment. Though, there are those who say: "If it walks like a duck...."
No one in America knows anything about German history. I don't take these comparisons seriously because they are cheap and artificial. Your remarks only prove my point about the horrible quality of education in America today that leads people to constantly make this comparison.
Now, just to get to that last bit of your latest: "Also, there is nothing in Trump's rhetoric which has been anti-Latino." Really?
Yes, advocating a secured border and legal immigration is not anti-Latino. If advocating a secured border and legal immigration is anti-Latino, then the Mexican government is anti-Latino for locking down its border with Guatemala and harshly punishing illegal immigrants from Guatemala and Honduras with immediate imprisonment.
Trump also celebrated that he won 46% of the Hispanic Republican vote in the Nevada caucus and called Hispanics "wonderful people". If he hated Latin culture, he would not say such things.
Even though he says that Mexican immigrants are rapists?
He does not say that all Mexican immigrants are rapists. He has indicated that some illegal immigrants have been individuals with serious criminal records who have harmed Americans, including Americans of Hispanic origin. This is something that is factually documented and accurate.
That we have to build a wall?
Again, if having a secured border is racist, then Mexico itself is racist and the entire world is racist.
That Mexico sends its worst people to us, on purpose?
This is largely true and it is a shot at the ineffective and corrupt Mexican government, not Latinos as a group.
Tell it to the Latino community here, because they are not buying that he is in any way their man.
And that is because of two things: 1) the traditional Mexican hostility toward the USA that goes back to the Mexican-American War and the Gadsden Purchase (this is nothing unusual; it is much like the traditional British-French tensions), and 2) the influence of the Hispanic media, many of whose loudest voices (e.g. Jorge Ramos) are products of the white leftist brainwashing of American universities and the media. Ramos went to school in the USA and learned all of the tag lines about white oppression and white racism from his white leftist professors. It is people like him who corrupt the minds of regular Hispanics and make them think that Trump hates them. Regular Hispanics often like Trump when they hear his words unfiltered and know him personally, which is why he won the Hispanic Republican vote in Nevada in a landslide.
