Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. A recent Rasmussen poll put President Donald Trumps support among African Americans at 36. It was 15 a year ago. And according to another poll released by the NAACP President Trumps approval rating is 21 among African Americans
These numbers are just the merest crack in the solid support for Democrats among African Americans. But they come at a time when the U.S. economy has improved enormously and when black unemployment is a an all-time record low.
Trumps improving approval ratings could be happening because most Americans would prefer to be employed rather than receiving assistance from the government. Self-reliance and a paycheck are important to human dignity and a flourishing economy puts more people to work.
This doesnt mean that the Presidents opponents will stop calling him a racist.
Quite the contrary. Such attacks are likely to become louder. Democrats have become dependent on almost monolithic support from black voters.
Their pitch to black Americans has always been more and more government assistance. Trumps pitch: lower black unemployment and opportunity.
These approval numbers represent a crack in the Democratic Partys electoral armor and if it is the beginning of a trend this news is potentially threatening to Democrats.
So it is not entirely a surprise that the results are embedded in a lot of nasty verbiage.
This is the headline: Nations Most Competitive Races May Hinge on Trumps Racism
This is a particularly telling paragraph:
Trumps strategy of trotting out black people to support him is not working if it is intended to inspire African American support for him or his policies. Black celebrities like Kanye West or Dennis Rodman who support Trump do not help Trumps support among African American voters. To the contrary more than three times as many black voters say that black celebrities speaking on Trumps behalf makes them less interested in listening to or supporting Trumps ideas than black voters who say it would make them more open to listening to or supporting Trumps ideas. A majority of black voters say these celebrities have no impact.
First if I were Kanye West or Dennis Rodman Id write a polite letter saying that I wasnt trotted out by Mr. Trump. Doesnt that language suggest that blacks dont act on their own agency? Hmm I detect some... racism... in this trotted out language. But the other thing about the paragraph is that it is wrong. It isnt true that blacks who are willing to break rank have no effect. Endorsements by black celebrities seem to have had a striking effect on Trumps approval rating.- The Presidents approval among black males doubled in the week after Kanye West. It was 11 before and 22 a week later according to a Reuters poll.
Among black people overall according to Reuters approval rose from 8.9 to 16.5 from April 22 to April 29.
Black voters and voters of color will play a key role in the midterm elections. There is a huge opportunity for us to address the voters feelings of disenchantment and disrespect by the president and the political establishment as a means to motivate them to take action at the polls. Since the conclusion of the 2016 Presidential cycle we have been traumatized by those in Washington who continue to try and divide us by race and class. Our response has to be to replace these bad actors come this November. When we vote we win!"
I ask you: Who is really trying to divide Americans by race? Charlotte Hays is Independent Womens Forums
Senior Editor & Director of Cultural Programs. A former correspondent for the National Catholic Register and a feature writer at The Washington Times Hays has appeared on cable television programs such as Politically Incorrect C-Spans Washington Journal and PBSs To the Contrary.
