OPINION:
Is it dumb for Black Lives Matter not to show 100% support for the reelection of President Trump? Mr. Trump, not Barack Obama, did the following: He brought opportunity zones to minority neighborhoods; restored funding for historically black colleges and universities; achieved prison reform largely benefiting Black inmates; supported school choice; and used deregulation to shrink Black unemployment to record lows. Is it simple-minded not to recognize progress and want more of it?
Likewise, is it dim-witted of influential Blacks such as Oprah Winfrey, LeBron James, Al Sharpton, Kamala Harris, Whoopi Goldberg, James Clyburn, Beyonce and even the Obamas not to endorse Mr. Trump? Aren’t tangible results at improving Black lives the goal? Is it ignorant to support Joe Biden, who called Ku Klux Klan member Robert Byrd his mentor? Are prominent Blacks clueless as to what that implies? Do they wickedly prefer no erosion of “victim” status?
All recent polls say Mr. Biden will defeat Mr. Trump and begin a radical and “fundamental transformation” of America to “Democratic socialism.” Before this happens, answer this: How cognitively challenged are people who vote against a president visibly helping their race, and instead choose a man whose trusted counselor led supremacists in harming Blacks? And how vacuous are others who would surrender achievement-inducing liberty for the diminished, drone-like lives of government dependence, condemning their children to the same?
ROBERT SZYPULSKI
Irwin, Pa.
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