My Answer to Joy Reid - part II

Why over half the U.S. voted for Trump

In my previous post I started the process of answering Joy Reid’s melodramatic question of what it says about us as a people that we voted for Donald Trump. I explained that we are, in short, shocked and furious over what we have endured over the preceding four years — things like lawfare (i.e., Stalinistic criminal prosecutions of political opponents), the deliberate evisceration of the southern border, and the audacious hypocrisy of Democratic attempts to blame Republicans for not only Joe Biden’s failures but his deliberate malfeasance.

And now, Joy, allow me to continue to explain.

We also voted for Trump because we have had it, up to our ears and beyond, with the left’s endless efforts to racialize EVERYTHING in this country. You and your network buddy “Reverend” Al Sharpton are the leading offenders here. And if it were just you, perhaps we could continue to stomach it for another 50 years. But, no, your principled party of division chose to make tired, false cries of racism a centerpiece of its “agenda” yet again. And we’re sick of it, Joy.

We are sick of it because, here too, we know the truth. We know that we have worked long and hard as a country to eliminate racial discrimination. For 60 long years since the Republican Party enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — over Democrat resistance, by the way — we have implemented countless affirmative action programs and, for many years, outright quotas, all designed to right the wrongs of the actual racism of generations past.

Those of us, like me, who grew up in the South know that we, in fact, actually achieved racial harmony decades ago. As a child in the 1970s and a teenager in the 1980s, I sat side by side with black students in my fully integrated public schools. My first black teacher was my third grade teacher — in 1975. I played sports with black peers before and after school, and I never cared one iota whose skin was what color. I did the same as I attended UNC-Chapel Hill, where I lived in well integrated dorms and went out on the weekends with black and white friends alike. I worked, and have continued to work, with people of all colors. I worshiped black athletes, including the many stars that civil rights champion Dean Smith recruited throughout his career.

I was not alone in this, Joy. White Americans everywhere did the same things. Nationwide, we readily recognized and awarded high black achievers like Hank Aaron, Reggie Jackson, Walter Payton, Herschel Walker, Bo Jackson, Magic Johnson, and Michael Jordan. We marveled at the boxing skills of Mike Tyson. We enjoyed partnerships with African-Americans, we made black sit coms like the Jeffersons and Cosby top-rated shows, we elevated black entertainers like Michael Jackson, Prince, and Whitney Houston to superstar status. We adored Colin Powell as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And through it all, we patiently endured the sting of continued affirmative action programs, just in case there was a continued need to favor black applicants and candidates who were two decades removed from the Jim Crow era.

But to hear from the likes of you, Joy, the country is as mired in racism as it was in the Jim Crow era. It is as if none of this progress ever occurred — and we resent this patently false, race-baiting that you promote for the sickeningly selfish sake of continuing and growing a career based on hate and resentment.

As bad as it is to take from you, Joy, it shocked and infuriated us to hear the likes of Joe Biden, of all people, regularly insult and demean us as “white supremacists” whenever we opposed one of his devastatingly stupid policies. It angers us to see this man who was close friends with some six powerful segregationists stand there and lecture us about the “scourge of white supremacy.” It troubled us, greatly, to hear the man pander at an HBCU by claiming that white supremacy was our greatest domestic threat.

We are shocked and furious, Joy, that Mr. Biden would throw around words like “Bull Connor” and “Jefferson Davis” in describing his fellow Americans. And if you had any objectivity at all, you would be offended by such language as well, Joy.

We are also shocked and furious at how your own party ultimately proved the frivolous falsity of it all. And no one did it better than Kamala Harris herself. For when she campaigned against Joe Biden for the party nomination, she herself castigated him for his racist past. Months later, as she joined forces to become his Vice President, Kamala, with her trademark cackle, laughed it all off as just a debate. The message could not be more clear: She never meant what she said, she merely threw our accusations of racism for planned political gain, and we were all worthy of laughter for thinking otherwise.

And before leaving this topic, we are equally furious at the endless attempts to paint Donald Trump as a racist. Trump is no racist and never has been. He is a businessman, and a pragmatist. As such, he does not care one whit about the color of any person. He simply wants what works best for all and what achieves the best results. Just ask the aforementioned Hershel Walker or Mike Tyson.

I’ve still only scratched the surface of why we voted for Donald Trump. More to come soon.