Is Donald Trump The 1st Black President

From an economic perspective, for the past decade, the best day to be an American was the day Barack Obama was inaugurated unless you were Black. Thanks to the Trump economy the best day to be a Black American in a generation is today. It could be better if the Left in their own words “get out of the way”. Donald Trump, despite being celebrated and embraced in the hip hop world as "a baller”; open and enthusiastic friendships with icons of the Black community in entertainment, media, philanthropy, and yes even politics! President Trump is vilified by the left. When the media realized that he was not ‘“a clown” but a serious presidential contender “baller” Trump was bleachbit(ed). Transformed overnight into a racist, nazi -” literally a Nazi” scream the straight haired white girl wearing a P**ssy hat. But vis-a-vis economic policy could President Trump lay claim to the sobriquet “1st Black President”?

“I love being called the first black president, but Barack Obama really is, he deserves it.”Said Bill Clinton. If Clinton is affectionately referred to as “the 1st Black President” and Barack Obama was the 1st black President. President Trump has been called the Hip Hop President. Which one has actually done more to benefit Black Americans?



From September 1995 through September 1998 unemployment fell from 5.7 % to 4.5% While the Clinton economy created 12 million new jobs, only 700,000 of these jobs were for the non-college educated. During the Clinton Administration employment of high school graduates actually fell by 95,000. In addition, to fewer new jobs created, the wages for four-fifths of American men fell 6.7%. By 1997 real wages were lower than in 1989. Per usual these numbers disproportionately affected the Black community. Of course, there were positives if you were part of the college-educated Black middle class the Clinton years were the years of growth, expansion, and homeownership, yet black-white wealth disparity remained fixed. Besides, how many Black families were “The Huxtables”? Economic shortcomings were crowned by NAFTA and its well documented long-term effect on American manufacturers and failure to address immigration (although both Clintons were advocates for building a “barrier” on the southern border). Finally, the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act crime bill with its disparity of sentencing guidelines, three strikes your out and the expansion of the death penalty. Combined with concomitant post-incarceration, socio-economic restriction surrounding reintegration into society from education through housing. Manifested post-war-like devastation on young black working-class communities. By the end of Clinton’s presidency, more than half of working-age African-American men in large urban areas were saddled with criminal records and subject to legalized discrimination in employment, housing, access to education and basic public benefits—relegated to a permanent second-class status eerily reminiscent of Jim Crow This was the criminalization of Black Maleness.



Leftist Policies espoused by the media, academic, clerical, and cultural elites not only contributed to the further collapse of Black working-class families. They created a cultural by-product, the fetishization of Black men. Yet today, these same elites continue to agitate against the Presidency of Mr. Trump despite or maybe because of the economic success of policies “liberating” Black Men from the “Democratic Plantation.”



President Clinton’s mastery of both symbolism and style combined with almost Soviet-style electoral allegiance of the black community with the Democratic Party cannot be underestimated. According to Radio personality Tom Joyner, Clinton“reached out to Black America in ways no U.S. President had before and was successfully connecting emotionally with the millions of descendants of slaves.” Thus creating the myth and obscuring statistical reality. For the elites, the Clinton economy (or the last years of the Bush economy hehe) was amazingly prosperous. However, By every criterion of measurement for Black Americans overall the Clinton years were economically and socially regressive.




The Honorific “1st Black President” was coined by Toni Morrison during the worst pains of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Today it sounds more like leftists patronizing of  ”Blacks can't afford or know how to get ID’s” variety than anything else. “Black skin notwithstanding this is our first black President” citing his dysfunctional upbringing as a common denominator with black men. Is the joke an insult? The punchline being Clinton is decadent and promiscuous, got rhythm, got caught, then got over — so he’s Black!



Of course, Barack Obama was the 1st black President. Greeted with messianic fervor by the White Liberal and Media establishments; the very embodiment of “cool.” “The Brotha” white men wanted to be, and the acceptable black guy white women could bring home.



President Obama inherited a mess that almost goes without saying. In the last year of the Bush Administration, middle-class Americans lost vast amounts of wealth. The Black Community due to lending policies, predatory mortgages, etc. was disproportionately affected. Despite the recession, elite wealth grew enormously, they never had it so good. In Black America, beyond the miasma of hagiography and sycophancy, the Obama reality of rescission, no growth, then slow growth. Political cronyism which rewarded, Wall Street and Silicon Valley elites, LGBQ, White Women, Hollywood, Dreamers, etc. coupled with political “punishment of enemies.” Especially Church attending Christians, of whom Black Americans are a significant constituency. For Black Americans in the street - notwithstanding the pride, we had in his election  “Obama seems to have rewarded every single one of his constituents except us!”



“Even black voters are nearly twice as likely (28%) to say young Black Americans are better off now than they were in the closing year of Obama’s presidency (15%).” 1st quarter growth in 2019 is now 3.1 percent, which is higher than any of the Obama years! Under the 1st two years of the Trump Administration, the Black unemployment rate has dropped to 5.9% (compared to 3.8% for the general population). The Trump lower unemployment rate is accompanied by a rise in real post-inflation wages - folks are finally” getting ahead of the eight ball”. Post inflation income and non-farming manufacturing jobs also grew - jobs we were assured by President Obama were gone forever.



I campaigned for Barack Obama, fundraised for Obama and voted for Obama - the 1st time. By January 23, 2009, I regretted my decision. Conveniently forgetting SCOTUS I justified my vote by reasoning myself away from my principals. My desire to see a Black President was greater than my values, Something for which I am ashamed and has confessed.





“Black Issues” such as criminal justice reform, education equality, creating an aspirational economy and quality affordable housing. Affect the entire American polity. Because of the disproportionately negative effects on the Black Community, we bear a special burden for ourselves and our fellow Americans to be sure the “least of us” is not forgotten in the corridors of power. We must examine policy, not prose, effects, not temperament, reality, not sentiment. We must be prepared to exchange traditional political habits for a continuing place at the table, not just every four years. Over a generation ago the Moynihan Report revealed how Black Americans were (are) sociological canaries.



If peace and prosperity remain the norm for the next two (six) years. The byproduct might be Black Americans, will once again be to able form families, achieve work/life balance, practice their faith, and volunteer. In short, further, engage in activities that form American civil society. The more Black Americans can aspire to those things which for almost a generation ( thought I forgot about the Bushies) have become the preserve of the folks who live in super zip codes and advocate policies from which they are immune from the consequences.

Try being poor in San Francisco.



Now it’s Muller Time. We could not ignore “the Donkey (Nadler) in the room” When the Muller Report 1st hit My friends and I made a weekend of it. We made drinks (old Fashioned) ordered in (General Tso's Prawns) rubbed our hands together and said: “this is going to be good.” It was good, approachable even for laymen like me. Only three times did I need to call a lawyer friend for explanations? Breakfast (French Toast) was served with disappointment after two years, 20 attorneys, and 35 million dollars Bupkus! Sans predicating crime there was nothing to obstruct! Muller’s his press conference adding nothing new The only people surprised or agitated are folks who have not read the report! The Report gave deference, a presumption of innocence to foreigners, but did not extend that presumption to The President.

Donald Trump now shares with Black men in America an experience Black men regardless of class knows; in a way, our fellow citizens will never know (thank God.).

The power of the government to disregard civil rights. From Property, Assembly, Privacy, especially Presumption of Innocence. Sonnie Johnson said, “every Black person knows about corruption in police departments - because we have all lived with the results” Yes she said that. President Trump (and Justice Kavanaugh) is learning is something Black men learn in puberty - any white woman, especially a blond (HRC)  can accuse you of anything — and “she is believed.” It is on you to prove your innocence even when there is no evidence. Then accuse the Brotha of crimes she committed, Bleachbit anyone. Contrast these accusations with the results of President Trump's economic policies, his housing policy (check out the Lynn Patton interview) VA reform, immigration and federal regulatory regime which stifles new business.

You might go HMM.