Trump implies Slavery/Segregation were better for blacks than the Obama Years

[pbrower2a]

Let's start with this obvious fact: the black middle class is growing rapidly (in part die to miscegenation, with many of its youngest members having one non-black parent...) and in part due to economic progress.  Working class? Blacks in manufacturing industries may be doing less well than their counterparts did in the 1950s, which reflects the economic regress that industrial workers of all races have done in America (cheap imports, weakening of unions, predatory lending).

For the poor, the argument is often made that poor blacks now do less well than blacks during slavery due to less cohesion of families. Saying that blacks were better off under slavery is otherwise obscene.

Where does Donald Trump get these crazy ideas? Does he simply make them up? If he were not the Republican nominee, then he would be ignored.

[pbrower2a]

When one makes absolute, blanket statements one opens oneself to criticism if one seems to ignore a reality more extreme and complete.

There can be no question that slavery was atrocious, with only two modern realities (being on death row or being sexual traffic) even worse. Begin with the Atlantic slave trade, a horror in some ways comparable to the Holocaust. Then recognize that people who could never choose how to live under control by people who want to exploit them most completely can only impose suffering.

Let us all remember: we have no excuse for evil.

[pbrower2a]

I hate comparing Donald Trump to fascists because such reflects badly upon  America -- but Donald Trump has learned the art of the Big Lie.