The bogus charges of racism against Trump

Larry Elder:
If Trump Is 'Racist,' He Needs to Go Back to Racism School

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Under this "racist" President, black unemployment, since the government began keeping numbers, hit an all-time low in May. Polls show that inner-city parents want choice in education: specifically, they want the means to opt out of sending their children to an under-performing government school the child has been mandated to attend. Think tanks on the left (like the Brookings Institution) and think tanks on the right (like the Heritage Foundation) pretty much agree on the formula to escape poverty: finish high school; get married before having a child; and do not have that child before you are financially capable of assuming that responsibility.
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Trump also wants to stop illegal immigration. Why should that matter to urban blacks? Harvard economist George Borjas, in his 2013 research paper "Immigration and the American Worker," wrote: "Classifying workers by education level and age and comparing differences across groups over time shows that a 10 percent increase in the size of an education/age group due to the entry of immigrants (both legal and illegal) reduces the wage of native-born men in that group by 3.7 percent and the wage of all native-born workers by 2.5 percent." As to illegal immigration, Borjas says: "Although the net benefits to natives from illegal immigrants are small, there is a sizable redistribution effect. Illegal immigration reduces the wage of native workers by an estimated $99 to $118 billion a year, and generates a gain for businesses and other users of immigrants of $107 to $128 billion."
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If Trump set out to hurt blacks by pushing economic policies that helped reduce black unemployment to an all-time low; by attempting to stop unskilled illegal alien workers from competing with unskilled blacks for jobs and wages; and by empowering inner-city black parents, rather than the government, to pick the school for their children, then Trump needs to go back to racism school.
The Democrats and their cohorts in the media are desperate to keep this racist accusation alive because they know it is not true and if the majority of blacks come to recognize they have been lied to they will lose a substantial voting block. 

Democrats want to keep these people in dependency on government and they betray them by keeping their kids in failing schools and they oppose economic policies and immigration policies that would lift blacks out of dependency.

While it is true that Trump sometimes insults blacks he sees as critical of him, he, in fact, treats them the same way he treats everyone who criticizes him.  Elder gives several examples.

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