{"id":43120,"date":"2020-06-12T02:08:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T02:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43120"},"modified":"2020-06-12T02:08:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T02:08:01","slug":"trump-fumbles-chance-to-deal-forthrightly-with-racial-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43120","title":{"rendered":"Trump fumbles chance to deal forthrightly with racial unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23policereform%20%23racerelations%20%23GeorgeFloyd&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BB15mmLv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43121\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BB15mmLv-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BB15mmLv-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BB15mmLv-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BB15mmLv.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump came to North Texas today ostensibly to talk about race relations, about police reform and about how to quell the suspicions of the African-American community about police protection in its neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>Well, he didn&#8217;t come close to sealing the deal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-praises-law-enforcement-response-in-minneapolis-says-confronting-bigotry-will-go-very-easily-at-event-in-dallas\/ar-BB15lOk3?li=BBnbfcL\">Trump spoke to mostly white folks<\/a>. He snubbed three of Dallas County&#8217;s top law enforcement officials &#8212; all of whom are black &#8212; and talked mostly aloud about the demonstrations that turned riotous in response to George Floyd&#8217;s death in Minneapolis in late May.<\/p>\n<p>Trump never mentioned George Floyd&#8217;s name in public. He talked about the beauty of seeing Minneapolis police use tear gas to disperse demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p>Where was the public acknowledgement that there might, indeed, be a serious problem with police protection in African-American communities? I didn&#8217;t hear anything.<\/p>\n<p>I continue to support police efforts to protect and serve the communities they patrol. I am not going to endorse the notion of &#8220;systemic racism&#8221; within <em>all<\/em> police departments. I do, though, acknowledge there needs to be serious examination of police practices and there should be a careful and thorough discussion of ways that police departments can ensure that they treat all citizens equally.<\/p>\n<p>I wish Donald Trump would have spoken to all of that while he visited North Texas. He didn&#8217;t say a word publicly about police practices. He didn&#8217;t say a word about the man whose recent death has galvanized a movement.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump failed once again.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23policereform%20%23racerelations%20%23GeorgeFloyd&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump came to North Texas today ostensibly to talk about race relations, about police reform and about how to quell the suspicions of the African-American community about police protection in its neighborhoods. Well, he didn&#8217;t come close to sealing the deal. Trump spoke to mostly white folks. He snubbed three of Dallas County&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43120\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump fumbles chance to deal forthrightly with racial unrest<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8688],"tags":[9375,9399,3798],"class_list":["post-43120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-news","tag-george-floyd","tag-police-reform","tag-race-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43122,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43120\/revisions\/43122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}