Trump Voters Think African Americans Are Much Less Deserving than "Average Americans"
Trump Voters Think African Americans Are Much Less Deserving than "Average Americans"
- Many have
argued that Donald Trump won the presidency because the political
establishment ignored the plight of white working class Americans.
Everyone from the far right to far left, including Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Joe Biden has suggested that the Clinton campaign didn’t pay enough attention to this group’s legitimate economic grievances.
A few astute analysts,
however, have noted that the sympathetic focus on white America’s
problems stands in stark contrast with conservatives’ lack of empathy
for communities of color. Indeed, when African Americans protest
against profound racial inequality—unequal conditions that are directly traceable to discriminatory governmental policies—they are often condemned by the right as “whiners“ who should simply try harder to remedy their own situations.