{"id":214272,"date":"2016-08-23T18:24:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T22:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/08\/23\/dissecting_trump_s_african_american_outreach\/"},"modified":"2016-08-23T18:24:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T22:24:03","slug":"dissecting_trump_s_african_american_outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/08\/23\/dissecting_trump_s_african_american_outreach\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissecting Trump\u2019s African-American Outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/videos\/37\/72813\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<section xmlns:image=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/image\/\" xmlns:xhtml=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/xhtml\/\" xmlns:custom=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/custom\/\">\n<p>RUSH: Okay, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2016\/08\/22\/trump_to_african_american_voters_what_have_you_gotten_for_supporting_democrats\">yesterday on this program<\/a>, I happened to praise an aspect of Donald Trump\u2019s speech, one of his speeches over the weekend, in which he appeared to be reaching out to African-Americans.&nbsp; Now, the audience for that speech was largely white.&nbsp; And my reaction to what Trump said, I will admit today &#8212; I\u2019m not gonna try to run from this &#8212; I was supportive.&nbsp; I thought it was good.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And then I ran across a lot of other people who thought Trump blew it. Who thought it was insulting, who thought it was stupid, thought it was dumb, and that he wasn\u2019t even reaching out to African-Americans, he was actually reaching out to white women.&nbsp; This was the theory.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So what did Trump say?&nbsp; Well, this was the speech where Trump said to African-Americans, what have you got to lose by voting for me?&nbsp; And then he characterized the way they live.&nbsp; And I happen to think it was okay because this is what we\u2019re all told.&nbsp; If you listen to Al Sharpton, if you listen to Jesse Jackson, if you listen to the Congressional Black Caucasians, if you listen to any interest group representing African-Americans, what picture do they paint of life in America for African-Americans?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s pretty bleak, right?&nbsp; I mean, the cops are wanting to shoot them all the time and put \u2019em in jail all the time. They\u2019re unemployed. They can\u2019t get work. They\u2019re discriminated against, perpetual racism.&nbsp; It\u2019s not a pretty picture, right?&nbsp; I\u2019ve always heard this portrayed.&nbsp; I\u2019ve always heard life in America for blacks portrayed that way to one degree or another by black leaders.&nbsp; And it\u2019s all part of the way black leaders convince black voters to vote Democrat.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you vote Democrat, they\u2019re gonna fix this stuff.&nbsp; If they vote Democrat, they\u2019re gonna make sure there isn\u2019t any racism anymore.&nbsp; The Democrats are gonna protect you from the cops.&nbsp; The Democrats are gonna protect you from evil corporations that won\u2019t hire you.&nbsp; The Democrats are gonna protect you from the evil racists and the bigots.&nbsp; The Democrats are gonna punish the evil racists and bigots.&nbsp; The Democrats are gonna make sure you have work.&nbsp; The Democrats this, the Democrats that.&nbsp; You can\u2019t trust the Republicans. The Republicans don\u2019t like you. The Republicans are racists, bigots, sexists, all that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_126628\" class=\"img_right\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/592220482_large.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">That is what a large percentage of African-Americans are told.&nbsp; That\u2019s what they think. That\u2019s how they\u2019re raised.&nbsp; And so Trump was, I thought, facing it head on.&nbsp; I was surprised to see so many people, conservatives, by the way.&nbsp; Now, these are magazine and blog internet conservatives, but I mean, they just roasted Trump. They just raked him over the coals. It was a demeaning appeal.&nbsp; It was negative. It was apocalyptic, and this is not the way to reach out to African-Americans. This is not how you do it. And then they came along and said he wasn\u2019t even trying to reach out to blacks anyway.&nbsp;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>They were saying Trump was very cynical. That what he was really doing was trying to make it seem that he cared about black people so as to soften the opinion of him that white women specifically have.&nbsp; This is what I picked up on.&nbsp; People, again, people who were criticizing Trump\u2019s outreach to African-Americans were saying, &#8220;Look, it wasn\u2019t even a black audience. It was a white audience.&nbsp; He wasn\u2019t really even speaking to blacks.&nbsp; He was trying to demonstrate to white women that he\u2019s actually a nice guy and he actually wants the best for everybody.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And I thought, &#8220;Why do I think so differently about this?&#8221;&nbsp; Why did the way I processed what Trump said so differently than people who think like I do in a lot of other areas who disagreed profoundly with Trump and his approach and thought it was demeaning and counterproductive?&nbsp; One of the reasons that what Trump resonated with me is that I\u2019ve always &#8212; not dreamed &#8212; but I\u2019ve always imagined if I were a candidate, a Republican conservative candidate running for office and the effort required reaching out to African-Americans, I often asked, how would I do it?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ihowKd0MeHY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And I have even shared with you how I would do it over the course of the 29 years, 28 years, whatever it is we\u2019ve been doing this program.&nbsp; And it\u2019s pretty close to what Trump did, except I would make sure that there were blacks in the audience when I did it.&nbsp; I say it frequently here as it is, and I put it in the form of questions.&nbsp; Okay, you\u2019re angry.&nbsp; And you are angry at &#8212; and list the things they\u2019re angry at, and I will base that on what I hear and what I see from actual African-Americans and from their leaders.&nbsp; And they\u2019re angry at the cops, they\u2019re angry at the prison system, they\u2019re angry at the judicial system, they\u2019re angry at the housing market, they\u2019re angry at the job market.&nbsp; They don\u2019t think they get a fair shake.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And I wouldn\u2019t disagree with them.&nbsp; I would simply ask, well, how come the people you\u2019ve been voting for for 50 years haven\u2019t changed any of this when they\u2019ve been promising to every four years?&nbsp; And I would say, at some point don\u2019t you think it\u2019s time to try something else?&nbsp; &#8216;Cause the people that you are investing all of your hopes and dreams seem to be failing big time.&nbsp; And I would say, it seems to me that your angrier today than you were four years ago, you\u2019re angrier than you were eight years ago.&nbsp; So voting Democrat actually isn\u2019t working for you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I would stay that straight up, just as I am now.&nbsp; And I thought this is essentially, in fact, what Trump was doing when he said, what have you got to lose?&nbsp; &#8220;What have you got to lose&#8221; means, &#8220;Look, the way you are voting now to rectify some of these problems is obviously not working.&nbsp; How could it get any worse?&nbsp; What do you have to lose?&#8221;&nbsp; To me, it made sense because it is how I would go about doing it.&nbsp; Then I find out that it is insulting to do that.&nbsp; I read that it\u2019s insulting, that it\u2019s demeaning, that it\u2019s counterproductive, that it will in no way work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_126603\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BlackLivesMatter-Dems-A2.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">And then I started reading how it\u2019s not that bad for African-Americans.&nbsp; I said, what?&nbsp; I wish that were true.&nbsp; Don\u2019t misunderstand.&nbsp; But now I\u2019m confused.&nbsp; It\u2019s not that bad for African-Americans?&nbsp; So Jesse Jackson\u2019s exaggerating?&nbsp; So Al Sharpton\u2019s exaggerating?&nbsp; Black Lives Matter, they\u2019re exaggerating?&nbsp; It\u2019s not as bad as Trump indicated? &nbsp;It\u2019s not as bad as what we\u2019re told every day? There isn\u2019t as much racism?&nbsp; There isn\u2019t as much discrimination?&nbsp; It\u2019s not that hard to get a job if you\u2019re African American, it\u2019s not as bad?&nbsp;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>It may be the first time in my adult life that Democrats and leftists in the media wrote of life in African-American America that it is not that bad.&nbsp; So last night, yesterday afternoon, last night, I did some soul-searching.&nbsp; I wanted to understand how in the world could I be seeing this so differently than &#8212; I don\u2019t want to name any names.&nbsp; It\u2019s not about them.&nbsp; It\u2019s just about how in the world can I be seeing this so differently than people who I normally agree with on 70, 80% of other things?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So then I asked myself, well, okay, do they have an inherent, built-in hatred of Trump that no matter what he does, it\u2019s bad, and no matter how he goes about it it\u2019s unprofessional and amateurish?&nbsp; Are they part of the Never Trump crowd that no matter what he does, he can\u2019t succeed \u2019cause he\u2019s not one of them and he\u2019s not sophisticated enough and he\u2019s not this or he\u2019s not that?&nbsp; And I come across this <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2016\/08\/23\/trump_hillary_enthusiasm_gap_confounds_the_experts\">Salena Zito piece which reaffirms my interpretation of a large percentage of the Trump base<\/a>.&nbsp; I think they would think the same thing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The point is that all the people that Salena Zito\u2019s writing about, people like me, we don\u2019t like all this racial strife. This is the United States of America, and we don\u2019t want people mad at this country; we want them loving it like we do.&nbsp; And we want it working for everybody.&nbsp; We want the opportunity this country presents to be availability to everybody.&nbsp; We don\u2019t want to exclude anybody.&nbsp; We\u2019re not class oriented.&nbsp; We\u2019re not the kind of people that say, &#8220;Well, you\u2019re not good enough for us.&nbsp; You\u2019re not good enough to live where we live. You\u2019re not good enough to be in the clubs we\u2019re in.&#8221;&nbsp; It\u2019s not who we are.&nbsp; It may be who the elites are, but it\u2019s not who we are.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I guarantee you the vast majority of in this country don\u2019t like all this racial strife. &nbsp;They don\u2019t like what\u2019s happening to the police. They don\u2019t like the attitude that a lot of people have that America\u2019s a failure, that America\u2019s rooted in unfairness and its unjust and immoral.&nbsp; It\u2019s the greatest country on earth, and we want as many people as possible to see that.&nbsp; And a lot of us believe that what\u2019s holding people back is nothing more complicated than the Democrat Party.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_126604\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DemocratplaybookRACISM.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">The Democrat Party doesn\u2019t want people to be self-reliant.&nbsp; The Democrat Party doesn\u2019t want people to be self-sufficient.&nbsp; They don\u2019t want \u2019em to be individualistic.&nbsp; They don\u2019t want them to be able to provide for themselves.&nbsp; The Democrat Party needs as many people as possible believing the deck is so stacked against them that they can\u2019t succeed unless the Democrat Party is looking out for \u2019em.&nbsp; And yet that begets the question:&nbsp; Why, then, is life not getting better for you?&nbsp; No matter who you are.&nbsp; Black, white, Martian, you vote Democrat every four years, why are you still mad?&nbsp; Why are you still complaining?&nbsp; They have power, gobs of power, they have been using extraconstitutional power.&nbsp; Why aren\u2019t things getting any better?&nbsp;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>How come the Hillary Clinton campaign is basically made up of what\u2019s wrong after eight years of her and her party running it?&nbsp; Why is this campaign not made up of how great things are now and how much better we\u2019re gonna make \u2019em?&nbsp; Why is the Democrat campaign not that?&nbsp; Why is it never that?&nbsp; Why is every Democrat campaign rooted in detailing everything that\u2019s wrong, blaming Republicans for it, and then promising to fix it?&nbsp; And the fix never happens.&nbsp; And yet people keep voting for it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s when you get into answers such as, &#8220;Well, they may be getting by on the fact that people think they\u2019re trying.&nbsp; They have their good intentions, and they have successfully destroyed the Republican brand so that no matter what Republicans say, they\u2019re not believed.&#8221;&nbsp; But I really was scratching my head late yesterday afternoon and last night trying to fix this, or understand this.&nbsp; &#8216;Cause I didn\u2019t see how it was demeaning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe somebody can help me out here.&nbsp; I know we have a lot of African-Americans in this audience.&nbsp; Maybe you can explain to me how it\u2019s demeaning to say, &#8220;What have you got to lose?&#8221;&nbsp; Because all I\u2019m doing is listening to what I hear.&nbsp; I hear civil rights coalition leaders.&nbsp; I hear Jackson and Sharpton and Farrakhan, I don\u2019t care who they are, I listen to them describe an absolute hellhole when they talk about life in America for African-Americans.&nbsp; They regale us with all the racism and all the bigotry, with all the discrimination, the prejudice in the legal system, cops, law enforcement, jobs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just the negative drumbeat.&nbsp; And they\u2019ve been voting for people who\u2019ve been promising to fix it for 50 years, and they\u2019re just as mad today as they were 50 years ago.&nbsp; But they\u2019re never mad at the people who do not come through.&nbsp; They\u2019re never mad at the people whose promises are never realized.&nbsp; So approaching them on that basis, &#8220;Hey, at some point maybe do you think you might try a different approach if you want to improve things for yourself and your family and your kids?&#8221;&nbsp; I mean, you look at out across the country and you see a lot of success.&nbsp; You see a lot of successful people.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I mean, somebody\u2019s having it.&nbsp; Somebody\u2019s finding it.&nbsp; And it\u2019s not everybody that\u2019s got it preprogrammed by family connection or whatever.&nbsp; I mean, some people are stumbling into success.&nbsp; Why aren\u2019t you?&nbsp; I don\u2019t see how it\u2019s demeaning.&nbsp; But that\u2019s what they said it was when Trump talked about it.&nbsp; They said it was demeaning, it was insulting, it was insensitive.&nbsp; And yet it was close to how I would go about it if I were a candidate.&nbsp; Maybe this is an illustration of how I should never be a candidate. I don\u2019t really know that business and I don\u2019t really know what it takes or what getting votes is all about, and that may be because I\u2019m not accustomed to selling things for support, so I don\u2019t know.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Look, let me get back to the phones \u2019cause I\u2019ve got Karen in Miami who\u2019s waiting.&nbsp; It\u2019s great to have you, Karen.&nbsp; Thank you for calling.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_126610\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TrumpHat.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">CALLER:&nbsp; Hey Rush, you\u2019re my radio crush.&nbsp; I wanted you to know that.&nbsp; But I want to get down to it.&nbsp; Trump exposed the bear naked truth about America, black America, and the so-called black keepers of America and that they\u2019re not doing a darn thing for black America.&nbsp; And because it came from him, you have people offended.&nbsp; But it should be the same things that should come out of the mouth of Jesse Jackson. It should be heard by Al Sharpton. It should be heard by Tom Joyner. It should be heard by all the preachers and pastors in the pulpit &#8212;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Karen, the people I\u2019m talking about who ripped Trump over the coals are conservatives. Conservative writers who are basically saying Trump was insensitive, it was a stupid appeal, he wasn\u2019t even speaking to blacks \u2019cause they weren\u2019t in the audience. It was tasteless and all this stuff.&nbsp; I said, what in the world did I miss about this?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:&nbsp; Well, let me tell you why I disagree with that.&nbsp; First of all, he had just come from Louisiana, and Louisiana was destroyed by Katrina, and you saw all the black people and the poor people and how they were upset with Bush for not doing enough, then you have Trump coming off the plane from there. So he had already had this preplanned event.&nbsp; What else is he going to speak about than speak from the heart, speak from what he sees.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why he had the conversation he had at the time, and in Michigan, but about black America.&nbsp; So it wasn\u2019t that he preplans to go out and talk about black America over in Michigan.&nbsp; Again I say, what he said, they\u2019re just upset that he said it, it came from him.&nbsp; If those same words had come from Jesse or anybody else or Barack or anybody else, it should have been &#8212; it never would because they\u2019re cowards, but if it had come from them, it would be okay.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Well, exactly.&nbsp; But the words don\u2019t come from them, that\u2019s the point.&nbsp; The words don\u2019t come from them.&nbsp; That is my exact point.&nbsp; The civil rights coalition leaders continue to make African-Americans victims.&nbsp; They don\u2019t speak of uplifting, positive ways to improve life.&nbsp; All they do is convince \u2019em that their current lot in life is something they\u2019re locked into because evil forces are discriminating against them and keep voting for us to make sure it doesn\u2019t get any worse, keep voting for us to look out for you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And my only point is the people looking out for \u2019em aren\u2019t doing anything for them.&nbsp; Now, wait, before you &#8212; I know what your reaction, &#8220;Well, why should they?&nbsp; People do things on their own.&#8221;&nbsp; Folks, they have been conditioned to believe the government\u2019s gonna take care of \u2019em.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Back to Trump in Akron, Ohio. These next three bites are Trump once again delving into the problems of the inner city.<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP:&nbsp; Poor Hispanic and African-American citizens are the first to lose a job or to see a pay cut when we don\u2019t control our borders.&nbsp; Hillary Clinton\u2019s plan amounts to total and absolute, total open borders, open borders.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: What\u2019s next, this is crucial, this is important. Okay, why is all of this happening?&nbsp; Why are borders open?&nbsp; Why are poor Hispanic and African-Americans the first to lose a job?<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP:&nbsp; Democrats have failed completely in the inner cities.&nbsp; Poverty, rejection, horrible education, no housing, no homes, no ownership, crime at levels that nobody\u2019s seen.&nbsp; You could go to war zones in countries that we\u2019re fighting, and it\u2019s safer than living in some of our inner cities.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aEvP_xQLopI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; You would think that they\u2019d be all over that.&nbsp; You would think the media would be all over that. And some of our conservative buddies, &#8220;That\u2019s just not right. That\u2019s just irresponsible. That\u2019s not the way to reach out to African-Americans.&#8221;&nbsp; But the next bite that we have here, this is the part of the speech that the Drive-Bys are focusing on.<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP:&nbsp; It is a disaster the way African-Americans are living in many cases.&nbsp; I\u2019ll bring jobs back.&nbsp; We\u2019ll bring spirit back.&nbsp; We\u2019ll get rid of the crime.&nbsp; You\u2019ll be able to walk down the street without getting shot.&nbsp; Right now you walk down the street, you get shot.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; So the Drive-Bys are all over that, of course.&nbsp; Pretty much describes inner city Chicago.&nbsp; But the Drive-Bys, kind of like what I was discussing yesterday, when Trump was making his appeal to African-Americans, and I thought it made sense, and I find out many of my conservative buddies think it was over-the-top insensitive and counterproductive.&nbsp; And I thought, wow, either I\u2019m losing touch and am way out of touch or they are.&nbsp; And Trump\u2019s doubling down on it today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See, I am of the impression that if this kind of stuff kept up, it would be effective.&nbsp; Folks, one of the primary reasons that Trump says this and thinks this is he hears it said by people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.&nbsp; Take your pick, I don\u2019t care what African-American leader, civil rights leader you hear talk, they have always portray life in America for African-Americans as what?&nbsp; Well, we\u2019re not in Candy Land, I\u2019ll tell you, it\u2019s not dreamland.&nbsp; I mean, the cops are trying to shoot \u2019em, cops are trying to put \u2019em in jail, you name it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_126629\" class=\"img_right\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/592595608_large.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Now, even if that\u2019s true, which to many extents it\u2019s not, but even if it\u2019s true, why doesn\u2019t it matter who\u2019s been running the show?&nbsp; Who\u2019s been promising them to fix all of this? Who\u2019s been promising them home ownership?&nbsp; Who has been promising them to end the discrimination?&nbsp; Who\u2019s been promising them to end the racism?&nbsp; I mean, what was the election of Obama really all about, if not ending all of that and turning it around and making it all better.&nbsp; And it isn\u2019t all better, and people are angrier now than they\u2019ve been in eight years.&nbsp; And in my mind you can lay that at the feet of the Democrat Party.&nbsp; They\u2019re the ones making the promises to fix all this stuff.&nbsp;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>Well, the Republicans do, too, but they\u2019re impugned.&nbsp; When Republicans talk about improving life for people they\u2019re laughed at, mocked, criticized, called names, and so forth.&nbsp; The Democrats, they get away with making the promises, but they never have to deliver.&nbsp; The Democrats never, ever have to deliver.&nbsp; In fact, they don\u2019t deliver.&nbsp; So we\u2019re not supposed to examine that.&nbsp; We\u2019re not supposed to examine the failure.&nbsp; We\u2019re not supposed to examine the results of their efforts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No, no, no, no.&nbsp; We\u2019re only to look at their big hearts.&nbsp; We are only to be impressed by their great intentions.&nbsp; And that\u2019s what makes them good people.&nbsp; At least they care, we\u2019re told, at least they are trying.&nbsp; Now, one more bite before the break.&nbsp; The Drive-Bys are all in a faux outrage over the contents of Trump\u2019s remarks that you just heard.&nbsp; They are spitting angry.<\/p>\n<p>KIRSTEN POWERS:&nbsp; Most African-Americans walking down the street in their neighborhoods are not worrying about getting shot.<\/p>\n<p>CHRISTINE QUINN:&nbsp; Made it sound like no street in America was safe for an African-American or a Latino or a Hispanic person.<\/p>\n<p>HALLIE JACKSON:&nbsp; Facing fire of his own now for some comments on African-American voters.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS MATTHEWS:&nbsp; Pitch his candidacy to African-Americans using some pretty rough language.<\/p>\n<p>ANDERSON COOPER:&nbsp; He\u2019s still clearly doubling down.<\/p>\n<p>JESSICA SCHNEIDER:&nbsp; Raising eyebrows with his tone, yet again.<\/p>\n<p>BAKARI SELLERS:&nbsp; I actually feel as if Donald Trump is trying to not speak to African-Americans or Hispanics, but he\u2019s trying to convince white college-educated voters that he\u2019s not intolerant.<\/p>\n<p>CORNELL BELCHER:&nbsp; We don\u2019t need a Donald Trump to come save us.&nbsp; We don\u2019t need a great white hope. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; See, I\u2019m sorry, but why does Trump think that?&nbsp; He\u2019s hearing African-American leaders complain about it.&nbsp; By the way, all you have to do is consult the news in Chicago every day and it is happening.&nbsp; But lest we forget, ladies and gentlemen, February 11th, 2007.&nbsp; This would be what?&nbsp; A little over nine years ago, 60 Minutes, Steve Kroft interviewing Michelle (My Belle) Obama.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kroft says, &#8220;Michelle, it\u2019s a tough question to ask, but a number of years ago, Colin Powell was thinking of running for president.&nbsp; His wife, Alma, really didn\u2019t want him to run.&nbsp; She was worried about some crazy with a gun assassinating him.&nbsp; Is that something you, Michelle (My Belle) Obama, think about, too?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MICHELLE:&nbsp; I don\u2019t lose sleep over it because the realities are that, you know, as a black man, Barack can get shot going to the gas station.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Well?&nbsp; I mean, that\u2019s just one example of what we constantly hear, and all Trump did was reflect it, get shot going to the gas station, get shot in the neighborhood. You name it, we hear about it. (interruption) Well, yes, I know, she can say it, Trump can\u2019t, is the bottom line, right?&nbsp; She can say that stuff.&nbsp; Trump can\u2019t.&nbsp; Even if he\u2019s trying to get to people to fix it, he can\u2019t address it. (interruption) Yes, I know, Jesse Jackson has also admitted how scared he is walking down the street. If there\u2019s a lone black guy, he will across the street, yeah, Jesse Jackson said so, too.&nbsp; He can say it.&nbsp; You can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; So the Drive-Bys are out there, they\u2019re livid, they\u2019re livid that Trump says that African-Americans walk down the street and get shot, but isn\u2019t that exactly what African-Americans tell us the cops are doing?&nbsp; Isn\u2019t that &#8220;hands up, don\u2019t shoot&#8221;?&nbsp; Isn\u2019t that lie based on the fact that the cop shot a black kid in the street for no reason who was trying to surrender, when he wasn\u2019t, and he had his hands up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Drive-Bys have been telling us for years African-Americans are afraid to walk down the streets \u2019cause a cop might shoot \u2019em.&nbsp; That has come to define the black experience in America since Ferguson, Missouri.&nbsp; Black Lives Matter, the whole reason for its existence is that premise that blacks are being shot and murdered by racist whites, cops or otherwise.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_126630\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Trump-Hillary-SIDEBYSIDE-B.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">So Trump comes along and says it doesn\u2019t have to be this way, and the next thing we hear is, &#8220;It isn\u2019t that bad. To run around talking about it, that\u2019s irresponsible to say that you get shot down walking in your own neighborhood,&#8221; by the very people in the media who had been promoting the premise.&nbsp; It\u2019s exactly what they\u2019ve been saying.&nbsp; They\u2019ve been echoing Black Lives Matter. They\u2019ve been echoing Occupy Wall Street, Congressional Black Caucasians, you pick the group.&nbsp;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>For the last two years, since Trayvon Martin, that\u2019s what we have been told life in America is for African-Americans.&nbsp; You walk down the street, you\u2019re gonna get shot.&nbsp; So here comes Trump saying you don\u2019t have to do that, you don\u2019t have to live that way anymore, it doesn\u2019t have to be that way.&nbsp; And the very people telling us that that\u2019s what life is all about for African-Americans &#8212; and this is the second day in a row for this, by the way &#8212; are now castigating Trump for making things up and lying and saying, &#8220;This is not the way to reach out to African-Americans. 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