Regarding African-Americans and the way Trump tries to "appeal" to them, an interesting article published recently by Politico.
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Donald Trump’s confused portrait of black America"
Not only did Donald Trump cite inaccurate and/or outdated (or sometimes completely made up) statistics regarding poverty and unemployment in AA communities, but he's completely out of touch with the current situation. Most Black people now live in the suburbs, not in the inner cities, and the poorer Blacks live in rural areas. Also, while unemployment and poverty rates remain higher than in the White population, the situation has been significantly better since 2010.
"The poverty rate for African-Americans under age 6 was 37 percent last year, down from 44.4 percent in 2010."
"The black poverty rate in cities in 2015 was 26 percent (...) in non-metropolitan areas, the black poverty rate was higher—32.1 percent. Both of these figures have fallen over the past few years as the economy has recovered, a refutation of Trump’s claim that the situation “can’t get any worse” in inner cities. But clearly, if you want to target black poverty, you can no longer just look in the "inner city"—any solution must also include rural people."
And the proponents of "law and order" should be reminded that, despite gun violence and school shootings, crime has been spectacularly down in most places in the Western world, including the US, since the early 90s. In Canada for example, crime hasn't been that low since the days before baby boomers became adults, early to mid 60s. I digress, but militarization of police forces is unnecessary and frankly quite disturbing, when that money could - and should - be put to better use, for example to fight poverty and prevent crime through education, job opportunities and addiction recovery.