Post by the Scribe on Aug 31, 2020 6:51:37 GMT
This is probably the most blatant racist dog whistle that even the most deluded conservative could understand.
TRUMP: If the left gains power they will demolish the suburbs, confiscate your guns and appoint justices who will wipe away your Second Amendment and other constitutional freedoms.
Homeownership is the main way that middle-class families in America build wealth. Historically, many African Americans were locked out of this wealth-building opportunity by discriminatory zoning and lending policies. Almost half a century after Congress passed the Fair Housing Act in 1968, the Obama administration sought to enforce its provisions with a rule tying federal funding to communities’ efforts to desegregate housing. The Trump administration repealed that rule this summer. Trump tweeted, “The ‘suburban housewife’ will be voting for me. They want safety & are thrilled that I ended the long running program where low income housing would invade their neighborhood.” Trump’s family real estate business was sued by the Justice Department in the 1970s for allegedly refusing to rent to Black families. The family settled the case with no admission of wrongdoing but was required to become familiar with the Fair Housing Act.
www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america
www.npr.org/2020/07/21/893471887/seeking-suburban-votes-trump-targets-rule-to-combat-racial-bias-in-housing
www.npr.org/2016/09/29/495955920/donald-trump-plagued-by-decades-old-housing-discrimination-case
Scott Horsley
NPR Chief Economics Correspondent
In recent weeks, President Trump has warned ominously about crime and Democrats seeking to “abolish” suburbs, using fear-mongering imagery to appeal to white suburban voters by stirring up racist fears about nonwhite residents who live there or might move there.
It is worth keeping in mind that since the president was elected in 2016, the suburbs have moved leftward. In 2018, they powered the Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives. And during this year’s Democratic primaries, Joe Biden's Super Tuesday victories were fueled by big margins of victory in the suburbs.
Part of the leftward shift is due to college-educated women, but the composition of the suburbs is also changing; they are becoming more economically and racially diverse.
www.npr.org/2020/07/27/895867508/2020-suburban-voters-who-are-they
Juana Summers
NPR Political Reporter, Demographics/Culture
TRUMP: If the left gains power they will demolish the suburbs, confiscate your guns and appoint justices who will wipe away your Second Amendment and other constitutional freedoms.
Homeownership is the main way that middle-class families in America build wealth. Historically, many African Americans were locked out of this wealth-building opportunity by discriminatory zoning and lending policies. Almost half a century after Congress passed the Fair Housing Act in 1968, the Obama administration sought to enforce its provisions with a rule tying federal funding to communities’ efforts to desegregate housing. The Trump administration repealed that rule this summer. Trump tweeted, “The ‘suburban housewife’ will be voting for me. They want safety & are thrilled that I ended the long running program where low income housing would invade their neighborhood.” Trump’s family real estate business was sued by the Justice Department in the 1970s for allegedly refusing to rent to Black families. The family settled the case with no admission of wrongdoing but was required to become familiar with the Fair Housing Act.
www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history-of-how-the-u-s-government-segregated-america
www.npr.org/2020/07/21/893471887/seeking-suburban-votes-trump-targets-rule-to-combat-racial-bias-in-housing
www.npr.org/2016/09/29/495955920/donald-trump-plagued-by-decades-old-housing-discrimination-case
Scott Horsley
NPR Chief Economics Correspondent
In recent weeks, President Trump has warned ominously about crime and Democrats seeking to “abolish” suburbs, using fear-mongering imagery to appeal to white suburban voters by stirring up racist fears about nonwhite residents who live there or might move there.
It is worth keeping in mind that since the president was elected in 2016, the suburbs have moved leftward. In 2018, they powered the Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives. And during this year’s Democratic primaries, Joe Biden's Super Tuesday victories were fueled by big margins of victory in the suburbs.
Part of the leftward shift is due to college-educated women, but the composition of the suburbs is also changing; they are becoming more economically and racially diverse.
www.npr.org/2020/07/27/895867508/2020-suburban-voters-who-are-they
Juana Summers
NPR Political Reporter, Demographics/Culture