It's come to this, I agree with Bush supporter..Ron Christie..
Well, almost agree on some points...
but not quite...
but Christie penned this op..and I have to agree, I guess he is not voting for Trump..
I didn't think I could hate anyone as I hated Ron Christie, but the 'Boris' the trump surrogate is right up there too...
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Donald J. Trump officially lost me early on the morning of Aug. 25.
I was already irked by my party’s presidential nominee. A week before he had asked African-American voters to consider his candidacy by saying, “What the hell do you have to lose?”
But the tweet he sent on the 25th put me over the line. Mr. Trump wrote: “So many in the African-American community are doing so badly, poverty and crime way up, employment and jobs way down: I will fix it, promise.”
On Saturday, he tried to do better. He went to Detroit’s Great Faith Ministries, a predominantly black church. It was a clichéd place for a meeting. He swayed to the music, praised black Christians and rolled out Detroit native Dr. Ben Carson for good measure. I do give Mr. Trump credit for making the trip in the first place — and acknowledging that those in the church would be his constituents whether they voted for him or not.
The problem with Mr. Trump’s efforts thus far is that he does not seem to understand that there is no such monolithic entity known as “the African-American community.” Black America includes doctors, painters, welders, farmers and even former White House staffers turned adjunct professors like me.
Mr. Trump has demonstrated not only a complete lack of empathy, but also the view that most blacks are doing badly and live in crime-infested neighborhoods.
What really angers me, however, is Mr. Trump has failed to expand the foundation of African-American outreach built by Republicans like President George W. Bush, Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, whom I worked for, and the speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, in favor of sounding cute on social media about how he can snap his fingers and solve problems that have persisted since the Great Society programs — programs that have consistently failed.
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Mr. Trump needs to realize that all blacks don’t go to church on Sunday or take their cues from the so-called civil rights leaders that purport to speak for one race. We think as individuals.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/opinion/campaign-stops/looking-down-on-black-america.html?_r=0
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