Hillary Clinton could never have been the president for all Americans. No one can, because all Americans do not want the same things. There are those that accuse her of being racist for helping implement welfare reform. Yet there never was true welfare reform, and the welfare system is still in desperate need of change. Pandering to those that throw out the word racist every time things do not go their way is nothing but manipulate b.s.
At the same time a person can decry racism and bigotry, it does not mean having to accept the narrative of victim hood and lack of accountability that some insist must be accepted whether people believe it or not. They say they want a conversation, but they do not. They only want their side heard.
The narrative of white supremacy and minority victim hood, while completely ignoring and excusing violence, is nothing but a way to free one side of accountability and responsibility. Plenty of whites are not born to privilege, and plenty of nonwhites have soft, easy lives.
For how many decades have people ignored or accepted black violence, irresponsible men having children they do not raise, all the while making excuses? Racism is wrong when it is in the form of overt discrimination. But pandering and failing to hold people responsible is also racist.
Trump made a promise to improve low income black and other minority communities. He promised to bring jobs. Whether he does this or not will be easy to measure. Or he might instead choose to forget all of this and focus on soft, easy targets like illegal immigrants- most of whom are hard working people that do the jobs Americans do not want without any rights or benefits.
The struggle for justice is not an easy one. Pandering, following simple narratives, and following racists, whether black, white, or anything in between will never lead to anything positive.
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