Minorities should support Trump this election

I wish that we would stop calling Americans Black, Hispanic, Native or Asian Americans and just say American.

I will focus on two identified minority groups: Blacks and Hispanics. Both groups traditionally vote Democratic. Using presidential election statistics from 1984 through 2016, President Barack Obama received 95% of the Black vote in 2008 and in 2012 71% of the Hispanic vote. George Bush Sr. received 10% of the Black vote in 1992, and in 2000, George W. Bush received 35% of the Hispanic vote. The average for the Democrats during that timeframe was Blacks, 90.16%, and Hispanics, 60.5%. Republicans averaged 7.6% of the Black vote and 30% of Hispanic.

I am predicting that in 2020, 50% of Hispanics and 25% of blacks will vote for President Donald Trump. What makes me think that? I believe that Democrats and liberals in general believe that they can control minorities, and that the minorities are not informed. Let’s start by looking at Trump’s opposition.

Vice president candidate Kamala Harris has Black heritage. Her father is Jamaican, and her mother is from India. Harris’ parents are not from the American slave background, which has some Black Americans questioning if Harris can relate to or understands their struggle.

Harris’ other problem with Black voters is her history as a prosecutor. She was California’s attorney general from 2011 to 2017. According to the Aug. 12 New York Post, Harris refused to endorse a bill calling for a special prosecutor to investigate deadly police shootings and rejected calls from civil rights groups following the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

Harris has a record of being tough. She opposed a state initiative to soften minimum mandatory sentences. During her time as attorney general, 1,560 people were jailed for marijuana-related offenses. These numbers come from the Washington Free Beacon.

Minorities are not uninformed, and they know that presidential candidate Joe Biden proudly exclaimed that he authored the 1994 Crime Bill. German Lopez, on Vox Media, stated that some criminal justice reform activists have identified this crime bill as one of the key contributors to mass incarceration in the 1990s. This bill authored by Biden led to more prison sentences, more prison cells and aggressive policing hurting Black and Brown Americans disproportionately.

Biden was proud of his crime bill, according to his Nov. 18, 1993, speech in defense of the Biden/Hatch Crime Bill, also known as the Violent Crime Control Law of 1994. He wanted to end the rumor that Democrats were weak on crime, and a statement he made clearly exclaims his pride: “A Democratic senator from Delaware and a Republican conservative senator from Utah are united in a ‘Biden/Hatch Crime Bill’ that does all the things that I just said.”

Here are other Biden statements from his speech. “We have predators on our streets, that society has, in fact, in part because of its neglect, created. We have no choice but to take them out of society.” You’re looking at the “fella” who was one of the primary architects of the sentencing commission.

There is much more in the speech Biden gave. According to a C-Span video, Biden was the chairman of the judiciary committee at that time, which is why he could give himself extra time. Biden gave himself extra time twice in three-minute increments. It is obvious that Joe Biden was extremely proud of this crime bill and wanted everyone to know that he was the driving force.

Minorities are not uninformed. They know that Kamala Harris has been tough on crime, and blocked efforts to reform criminal justice as a state attorney general. Minorities know about Joe Biden and the damage that the 1994 crime bill has caused to their communities. Trump might hurt your feelings, but Biden hurt people’s lives.

Black pastors have come out in favor of Trump and against Harris. According to Jacob Jarvis in his May 22 Newsweek article, Darrell Scott, a Black pastor, referred to Trump as the most pro-Black president he has ever seen. A group of black pastors led by Bishop Aubrey Shines were quoted in the law enforcement magazine written by Pat Droney on Oct. 1. They were critical of Harris’ stance on Black Lives Matter.

Bishop Shines slammed Harris in The Christian Post, saying, “It’s extremely disheartening to see a U.S. senator and a candidate for vice president give such high praise to a group that is trying to destroy our country.”

Black Entertainment founder Robert Johnson told the Squawk Box on Sept. 30, that he does not know what Biden would do. Johnson did not endorse Trump but said, “Where I come out as a businessman, I will take the devil I know, over the devil I don’t know, anytime of the week.”

Mary Papenfuss from the Huffington Post on April 21, 2019, shared that Kim Kardashian defended her efforts in working with Trump on prison reform, a topic promised by many presidents that included Obama. Trump is delivering.

Blacks and Hispanics know what Trump’s economic policies did for them. They also know what Obama and Biden did not do for them.

Richard W. Kucksdorf is a retired U.S. Army colonel residing in Bonduel. Kucksdorf has other writings on his website, “Observations From Flyover Country,” at rwkucksdorf.com.