Robinson, people, coming home, how black republicans will reelect trump. Why the book . Like i working on a super pac to get 20 of the vote for the president in eight states. I thought you be interesting to see how did like americans become democrats from overwhelmingly supporting the gop for 71 years or so . Bruce is your coauthor. The president as a candidate received a percent of the africanamerican vote. How does that compare to previous president s and how do you get to 20 . Than it is higher goldwater, a couple other folks, it is lower than several president s. It is interesting to take a look , the gop occupy the moral high ground for 71 incredibly, Herbert Hoover through thataway. He decided he wanted a really white Publican Party in the south, he resegregated the , John Franklin cites him as the pivotal guy who started the exodus from the rePublican Party for black americans. However, he had helped. At the same time, my parents and 6 million other individuals left votersth and they were in the north, midwest, and west. Said, theses individuals from the south know the Democratic Party, the south is the party of slavery, jim crow laws, the clan. A Public Relations campaign. Fdr and his wife were doing the same things republicans used to do. Meeting with black leaders, making sure it was in the prominent black papers of the time. Eleanor was hosting the wives of prominent black men or prominent black women in their own right. He got 30 something, we are not sure exactly. He got 76 of the black vote in 1936. Black individuals did not self identify as a majority democrat until 1940 did with truman. Essentially, the short version , republicanss dropped the ball, the conservative movement dropped the ball, not enforcing the Civil Rights Act the 15th amendment. And not supporting the Civil Rights Act. In other words, bill buckley was more concerned about Shipyard Workers voting and free elections that he was my mother and grandmother voting in free elections in louisiana. Host you write the following. If donald trump was 20 or 30 of the black vote, he would have taken a major step towards reestablishing the nearly Unbreakable Alliance black americans had with the republican for more than 70 years after the assassination of abraham lincoln. To do so, he must and the division that existed between republicans and black americans since 1964. My question, how do you get there . Admit republicans the to that having once had the moral high ground, they lost it. As a precursor to talking about beginning the moral high ground on a range of issues including School Choice, jobs, wages going up, performance on the economy, securing the border, defending the second amendment, and criminal Justice Reform. The second thing that has to happen, the super pacs will do their job, there are at least three that will broadcast those messages to black voters using radio. Become committed Trump Campaign committed to doing so, i will talk to them. Finally, the big question, what will the rePublican Party do . They created a vacuum where democrats can say anything about vote democratic because republicans want to kill your mom and daughter. Has destroyed the brand which is why we say the president canton fdrs strategy on its head. Can turn president fdrs president asked strategy on its head. Host one of the moment of the 2016 campaign, he told africanamerican voters, what have you got to lose . He was criticized by Campaign Staffers but felt it was the right thing to do. The president told reporters that was one of the most significant moments in the 2016 campaign. What agree . Guest i thicket was significant in american history, or this part of american history, because the gop has not asked like voters for their support. The president was actively campaigning for black support with that statement. With the digital hattie was spending 10 million during the super bowl, touching his record with criminal Justice Reform, i believe there is now one of the women he pardoned is in johnfor Congress Lewis seat. Host this is from january. Of the headlight, like americans deeply pessimistic about the country under trump. Let me show you what the post is reporting. President trump made an appeal to black americans during 2016 but he asked, what have you got to lose . Three years later, black americans rendered their verdict on his presidency with a pessimistic assessment with their place under a leader see by an overwhelming majority as racist. The findings come from a Washington Post poll of africanamericans nationwide, which reveals fears about whether their children will have a fair shot to succeed and believe what americans dont appreciate the discrimination that black people experience, while optimistic about their own lives, like americans offer a bleaker view about their community as a whole. They expressed determination to limit the president to a single term. There are so many things i am supply the Washington Post has not run a headline, coronavirus runs wild, minorities and women most affected. There are polls that show that the president is in striking range of that 20 necessary to win in swing states. Lawyer, i was always questioning whether School Choice and Educational Opportunity would ever translate into support in polls. Expandings were. Olitical capital that was answered in florida. Of africanamerican women, race forvoted not by the black candidate or not my party by the democrat candidate, but voted for Governor Desantis and elected him on the School Choice issue. ,here was a poll six weeks ago it said, black voters overwhelmingly support the democrat, donald trump with only 15 . 50 , you win the entire south. Maybe even virginia. Poll number in that again, most polls dont have a big enough sample size, the margin of error is larger than the entire population said that 31 of black men would support the president against a generic democrat. A number of other polls talk about job approval or something other than voter intention and the significance of the poll is they asked the question. There are a number of other polls that have 49 of africanamericans approving of the president s economic job performance. There are polls that have a majority of africanamericans saying they believe they will be better off at the and of the Trump Administration than they were at the end of the Obama Administration. Across the board, on any metric forwant to talk about, instance, at this point in the Obama Administration come up like all employment black unemployment was three times higher than today. I believe at least 20 of black votes will not buy into this ridiculous narrative where folks say, trump is a racist. Was vetted byhe the civil rights establishment, naacp, jackson, giving them awards. In one case, the same award for courage as rosa parks and muhammad ali on the same day. You can either believe that he magically became a racist when he was 70 he just appointed a black fourstar to be the chief of staff, Top Air Force officer in the air force for the first time four you can believe ran against Hillary Clinton and peter, which is why everyone is saying he is a racist. Host we welcome our listeners on cspan radio. Our conversation with vernon robertson. His book, how black americans will reelect trump. He is a graduate of the u. S. Air force academy. Now a conservative activist. Lets get to your calls. Tyrone and new york city, democrats line. Caller good morning. Thanks for taking my call. Thank you mr. Robinson for your service. I thank you for your dedication to what you believe in. My problem with the rePublican Party is a worthy party of abolitionists and party of freedom in the invites of black , they gavee you said us up. We did not give them up. Where did we have the turn as black people . Always have to choose the lesser of two evils. When we seek a party that is actively working to destroy our rights, like closing polling sites, like this crosscheck situation, i to keep us from core involved in the major of this american system in , we put our back against the wall they put our back against the wall, then they tell that whole becoming looked at as human beings in this country. We have to continue to fight against his whole idea of white superiority where they continue to maintain their power over us as black people. Guest thanks for the call. Host i think the color for his call. There are a number of . Plus the gop can make over its failure in the 1930s, 1940s, 1960s to effectively support enforcement of the Voting Rights act in the 15th amendment. It would have been nice if there were some conservatives or republicans who did the freedom rights as opposed to bill blackley dividing them. Whatever you want to say about john lewis, and his young day he was fearless and the freedom writers wrote out their wheels before they got on a bus and went south because they expected to be killed. It would have been nice to have republicans taking those risks. One of the outcomes of that was a long discussion about why goldwater did not support of Civil Rights Act. What the conservative movement did is it for the political and spiritual leadership of the black community into the arms of the far, including my mother, who was registering voters in the south, but there was gnosis there was no Republican Group registering voters in the south in the 1940s and my mother was born out of her own town because of threats by klansmen. There is a problem there. Suppressions voter is trotted out every two years by the democrats because they have to choose black turnout. When black voters hear the credit Party Democratic party is responsible for the deaths of 20 million black children and selling the body parts, when they hear it is the Democratic Party standing in the schoolhouse door of Educational Opportunity, stopping School Choice and supporting the union and not the parents, cannot create a privatesector job to save their lives, i asked the , are your relatives working . I believe their wages are going up. They are going to vote over their own situation as opposed to the talking points of the Democratic Party. Texas, don is waiting. Thank you for waiting. Caller thank you for the guest and cspan. Is thetion to the guest issue of unemployment for black men in particular. There is a report that says that in major cities where blacks are the majority, on employment for black men is five or seven times four liket is man than white men. And in what geordie black cities. Than white menn in majority black cities. Cities, such as new york at atlanta, houston, these are city nations. Employment, new jersey, detroit, michigan, 18 , flint,ichigan, like 80 black atlanta, houston, you look at the top 25 cities that are majority black, the Unemployment Rate for black men is preposterous. Host we will get a response. I would ask the caller to look at those numbers again. Particularly in atlanta. It is thriving. You cannot get to a 5. 9 or 6 on appointment rate with black men at 18 . There is a problem in some of the northern and midwestern cities that had been run by democrats for 70 years. That is they have destroyed the infrastructure, the schools are , they have caused problems with minority employment opportunities. One of the things in addition to supporting School Choice and not killing 20 million black babies, the Current Administration has pursued criminal Justice Reform that is involved with other steps for nonviolent, nonsexual enders to smooth their way which is also a local issue. You need to find a way to house. In many places, they cannot get housing. You need to find a way to address drivers license issues because many times their drivers licenses are no good and they will be back in court driving without a license. Is, theom line expansion, the economy, raising wages helps all boats and it helped black americans close the gap faster than anybody else. Host in the book, you write the following. Ther a stream or a waiver more river, black americans are leading the party to join the party of donald trump. You mentioned the party of trump, not the rePublican Party. Why . Guest i am pleased to be able to announce that the party of , and johny, bob dole mccain is dead. The president killed it and it is not coming back. Host bob dole endorsed donald trump. Guest thats good, but there was a rePublican Party and it was a party that was not able to take a punch and not able to pull a punch. That party is gone. Anybody who will be resurrected. That is why we talked about the party of donald trump because among other things, this president is asking black voters for their votes, something that has not happened for 70 years. Host what is your reaction when the president is in is critical of john mccain not only life, but in death, does that go too far . Does that become too toxic . I was disappointed in john mccain. I cannot special it what i would have or not done in the president s shoes. In death . Even after he passed away . I believe john mccain did great damage to this country and the rePublican Party. Because of him, in part, it toled to keep its promise substantially reduce the impact of obamacare. Perhaps taking a shot at somebody who is dead is beyond the pale, but john mccain did byat damage to this country stopping republicans from reducing some of the most agree just aspects of the portable care act. Because they care failed to do anything about it. Host our guest is vernon robinson. Greg is next from harbor heights, texas. Caller thank you. I have a few things some comments. Be patient. Back in the day, black folks out here protested for everybodys civil rights. Every time black folks got up on , and do something good for the United States and building communities, our communities always got corrupted and taken down by fear. That is not true. Then we build this country and let other people come over here , likeck people, democrats the koreans, like the mexicans, like the africans, they come over here in america, these people say american blacks are lazy, dont want to do nothing. That is not true. We have young people, we can give them an opportunity and they will get it. America was to keep people down on this level. You are talking about the rePublican Party . These people come in this country and they dont have to obey the rules the blacks have to go through and whites have to go through and doing other stuff they have to do. They let people come in this country and do what they want to do. They bought up everything. I dont know why america is matt. You sold it to the highest bidder. Peopleample, when black listen to rap music started, white people got nervous. Host we believe it there. Thank you for the call. Guest i think the caller for the question. I would ask, if this country is so bad, what country would you prefer to be in . That is a nobrainer. Verybody wants to be here everybody will be here if the democrats feed into their open border policy. Now, it is the place where you dont have to do what your father did. You can go beyond that and you can achieve. Thatld like to point out it was the democrats primarily who were restricting black Economic Activity for most of the history of this country. Secondly, it was the swap in the chamber the swamp in both parties who are trying to open borders to bring in cheap labor. In the new rePublican Party, we are not committed to open borders, we are committed to securing the borders and deporting people who are not supposed to be here. We are experiencing unparalleled opportunity. I was in baltimore and i was excited seeing the republican primary for mayor. I encouraged the folks to talk about three things. The first is, School Choice. To get more kids out of disastrous Public Schools that cannot afford to send a bus, to heat work with the classrooms. The second item is testing, adopt a test like the measure of academic progress, northwest , soational associates teachers are given tools help children. Total overhaul of postsecondary expenses. We need to have trades. I talked to an old girlfriend and she is 67 now and has an Electrical Contracting firm and can find nobody to hire to do Electrical Work in atlanta. The average age of electricians is like 58. The same with plumbers and skilled trades. Earn here you can welding. Huge amounts of money with no college debt as opposed to this incessant drumbeat of sending folks to liberal arts College Programs where they get a degree that is useless and move into their parents basement. Win somelks will offices in baltimore. Host if you can go back 56 years ago to the campaign of 1964. From your standpoint, trying to get the africanamerican vote, what was the biggest mistake Barry Goldwater made beyond the fact he voted against the Civil Rights Act . Where their policies he had that black americans could not relate to . What were the mistakes . The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a big one. Host of course. Guest we scoured the countryside looking for the 83 page document that made the case for by he should oppose the Civil Rights Act on constitutional grounds. Written by a young lawyer at the bork. Y the name of robert we looked for the 15 page summary of that opinion that was goldwaters personal attorney, both of those documents had been taken by the body snatchers. It is an interesting discussion. Goldwater says he was wrong. Rightslity was, voting were not supported in the south, and some of the other issues would have taken care of themselves if black voters were enfranchised. Why the, the reason green book was around was that white individuals were denying the English Common law of feeding and housing people bind there was no other place to be fed or housed across the south. And conservative did not have an answer other than move. In some cases, police would not allow black citizens to leave the oppressive atmosphere in the south. However, istrue, there is some southern strategy goldwater made a speech 10 days before the election in charleston saying he was going to enforce civil rights laws and if you are going to cater to the racist element, that is not a good idea. Folks talked about the nixon southern strategy. 5 on came into office with up by kids in the south and integrated school. At the end of his first term, it was 95 . John mitchell was breaking the caps to enforce desegregation desegregatione forward in the south. That is not how you last thing i want to share with the viewers, please name one democrat, whohern voted against the Civil Rights Act other than Strom Thurmond who changed his party affiliation. None of them did. Members of congress who voted against the Civil Rights Act and governors who opposed it, will were democratsl until the day they died. There was no southern strategy. There was no switch. The switch happened 30 years before that. Propagandarat talking about the 1960s, there were some mistakes made, but the switch was going on a long time before that. Host lets turn to bill from las vegas. Our guest is vernon robinson. Coming home, how black americans will reelect trump. Caller i would like to make a comment. I agree about the trade school , whether it is americans, caucasians, no matter what the race or gender of the person, for all young people, considering the huge debt that college put up on people, it is ridiculous. Host response . Guest i subscribed to those views heartily. In davidson county, North Carolina, there is a welding teacher who has to go out and fromquipment and materials local businesses because the program is inadequately funded by the state of North Carolina at a local supplement from the county. But his kids graduate they walk across the stage, they can work as a welder the next day with a huge salary and no debt. We need to take a look at the look at other strategies. Otherwise, it will be buff but you have to do your own plumbing. Host joanna from maryland. Good morning. Caller i have a couple points to make. Lets go back to history. ,uring abraham lincolns time the republicans were considered liberals. , people likecals Charles Sumner that pushed until he emancipated the slaves. Lets fastforward. And 1960s, the democrats, northern democrats, became the liberals. It was a switched position. Johnson said after he signed the civil rights bill, he said, ive us to the south. I bought the south. The south has been ready since that time. I lost the south. Sinceuth has been red that time. Lets fastforward to trump. What you said about democrats believe in open borders, that is baloney. Openrats dont believe in borders. What they dont believe in is treating people like animals, proposing solutions such as boats filled with snakes and alligators. That is what they dont believe in. They believe in treating people with human dignity. Host thank you for the call. Guest your problem is 20 of black voters dont think their sons should have to learn spanish to get a job, assistant manager at a mcdonalds. Seems,e concerned it did theye black become Vice President . No, they were replaced by people who speak spanish because banks want to do business with illegals. Donvite the viewers cannot democrats support open borders or not . It looks like open borders to me. Dagger atcies are a the black middle class, requiring schoolteachers to learn spanish to keep their jobs in the dallas unified School System is going to unemployed black teachers, which is the basis of the black middle class. It is a dagger at the throat of black voters, at least 20 are not voting for the people who want to cut their throats. The rePublican Party being the party of it islism at liberation, still the party of liberation. Democrats killed black babies and sold their body parts. Block charter schools, reduced charter schools, stop School Choice. You can continue to but on that if you like, but in florida, it cost to the governorship. Please do, it will cost you the presidency if you continue to oppose black parents come up like mothers, getting their kids into better schools through School Choice. You need to learn how to create a private sector job because you have not been able to do so and most of the democrat elected officials never had one. You have two strategies to reduce unemployment. What is discourage workers, including black men, that they stop searching at you put them on welfare. 19, 18,ident is saying to 49yearolds who are ablebodied need to go to work. He did not say that, he also created more jobs and our people to fill them. We will have to agree to disagree. Republicanst somehow became racist is ridiculous. Why would black voters move back into the south one they are almost all run by republicans, racist republicans, if that were the case . That is not the case. What happened in the south was airconditioning, business is moving down there with republicans from the north and west, and a probusiness atmosphere that propelled the rePublican Party to a majority. The racists state of the Democratic Party. Host from your perspective, does the Obama White House deserve some credit for the Strong Economy . You look what he inherited an book where things were when he left office. Housing continued to go down. In the lastliding term of the bush administration. He continued to slide and did not bottom out until the top administration. The Trump Administration. I will see how the policies the president supported did anything to help the economy. I dont see how the policies that fdr did anything other than worsen and lengthen the great depression. For the most part, you cut regulation, cut taxes, you get a boom and higher consumer confidence. That is what turned this economy around. The idea that obama is responsible but it is curious that if a president is doing a bad job, why does the former president try to take credit for it . Ast from your book, this is youth movement, a migration of young black americans to the banner of president trump. This is a new generation of black americans, educated, professional, tired of the broken promises of the Democratic Party. It is the first generation of black americans who did not experience the horrors and dangers of progressive segregation or universal attitude among white americans that they were superior to black americans. The book is titled coming home, how black americans will reelect trump. Vernon robison is our guest. Our next collar is from georgia. Caller good morning. How are you . Host we are good, thank you. Caller how much do i love cspan . I love it immensely. Thank you for your book. Thank you for your response to joann. Joanne, keep calling into cspan. Dont turn the television off, they dont move their bones, we have to move to next collar. Colors, werun these have to get more callers so we can get responses and truth and the calls. Here are my points. Borders, language, voter. By squeezed globalization. President trump, the money that was not invested under president obama was gladly dispersed under mr. Trump. Consistency in gdp and growth. Point number three, mr. Trump is , he is my negro in the white house. He will keep america great. Blacks have been disenfranchised, but they dont need to be mad, they need to become successful when the opportunity presented itself. Host thank you for the call. Caller comenk the out looking forward to going down to georgia to the Republican Convention in april. State convention where we will continue to press the ground game with a booklet called keep black america great. Which repeats the idea that somehow trump became a racist at 70. Democrats saying dumb things, which there are a lot of things to quote. Their true feelings about black voters. Finally, dealing with the issues , the six issues we spoke of previously. Borders, like which, culture. Host go ahead. Caller good morning. Let me start with you, mr. Robinson. Donald trump has been a racist all his life. His father supported discrimination in housing in new york. He attacked the central park five and took out ads against those young men who were exonerated years later. He never apologized. The middle class, working people across this country, what did the tax cuts do for them . It went to corporate america. Here in new york, i have to pay more i cannot deduct real estate taxes that i pay. Children in new york and new jersey cannot do that. Intodly, when he got office, one of the first things he did was to go after health care. As a retired health care worker, professional, Everybody Needs health care. Why would you attack the aca . Second, he denigrated, he attacked our first africanamerican president. He had to prove that he was a college graduate, he where he went to school, he had to prove he was born in america. This man cares for no one. He attacks everybody. He is equal opportunity, with hispanics, women, africanamericans. With muslims. Host we believe it there. Your response. Be surprisedll not i agree to disagree with you. Your taxes are too high entropy is not with donald trump, it is with the lunatics who get elected to Public Office at a majority in new york who raised your taxes that high, you need to maybe elect republicans to cut your taxes. , it isgard to the aca unconstitutional, americans should not be 40 to buy anything and certainly not health insurance. That should not be forced to buy anything and certainly not health insurance. You sound like a bernie sister. Aca, it willt the collapse and you will end up with a singlepayer plan and your medical care will look like venezuela, which would be bad. Host i want to go back we talked about this survey. It is available online. Just over a thousand africanamericans. Nearly two thirds of black americans say it is a bad time to be a black person in the u. S. 55 saying it is bad to be black in america. 70 do not trust community police. 56 percent rate of the National Economy as negative. To stay awayneed from the koolaid of the talking points of the Washington Post and new york times. On any index that you would like to discuss, like voters are better off in this economy than they were under obama at any point in his administration. Again, at least 20 of like voters will not subscribe to the talking points of the left and take a look at you can devote to go back to be bad old days if you like. One of the great things about this country is you can impose more abortions, less school , stagnantwer jobs wages, and Everything Else that happens under democrat rule. Take a look at your surroundings. In urban areas, be north and midwest. Look at nagasaki at hiroshima. It is easier to survive a Nuclear Blast than 70 years of democrats running your city. In flint, where the water is undrinkable. Problem with a that pole because it does not seem like reality. The voters have a choice. They can go back to the bad old days of no economic opportunity. You can surrender your guns, which is lunacy. Every black person should be armed, not disarmed. And for good reason. Host the book, coming home, how black americans will reelect trump. It coauthor, vernon robinson. Thank you for joining us. Please come back again. Guest thank you. Sees that washington journal life every day with policy issues that impact you. 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