PRESIDENT TRUMP TALKED for near 90 minutes Tuesday night, presenting his first State of the Union speech.
He repeatedly called for the nation to come together; “we” can make it great, “we” can do anything if “we” work together.
Apparently, “we” excludes anyone who is not a WASP.
AT LEAST THAT’S what a young black dude – the color IS germane to this – who said for tv that “we” did not include black and brown people.
The only reason “black and brown” MIGHT NOT be included is because they DON’T WANT TO BE to be included.
The Democrats elected Representative Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts – Barney Franks successor and one of the monied Kennedys who control the state – to gave his party’s rebuttal from the safety of his home; apparently not finding it necessary to hear the speech in Washington.
Almost no Democrat -- with the exception being Sen. Bill Nelson, D-FL – had anything good to say about Trump’s talk. Sore loser Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FL, was unimpressed, but Marco has been sniping at Trump since Trump trounced him in the GOP primaries. (A GOP version of another sore loser, Hillary Clinton.)
Meanwhile, also watching from the safety of her congressional district, Frederika Wilson (Florida’s 24th Cong. Dist.) attacked Trump before and after his speech, claiming “I’m not going, because to go would be to honor the president,” Wilson told CNN on Monday. “And I don’t think he deserves to be honored at this time, after being so hateful towards black people and then black countries, Haiti, and the whole continent of Africa.”1 Never mind that she “spun” what the president said to her bigoted point of view.
Californian Nancy Pelosi and New York’s Charles Ellis Schumer sat in the audience – at least they had the decency to attend – looking like a pair of Grim Reapers. Amazing since they got their illegal immigrants a quick path to citizenship. (Granted, GOP and Democrat presidents have, in the past, granted blanket citizenship to thousands of illegals.)
It is beyond my ken how people can denigrate a person for calling for Americans to come together, to work together.
As long as people such as the black dude actually believe that Trump‘s “we” excluded his “me,” the country will remain fractured. Just don’t blame Trump; blame the people who refuse to be part of “we.” For those folks, it’s Me First; I’m #1 and the rest of you are nothing. It’s You vs. Me. In typical Democratic fashion, if you are not Me you don’t count and I won’t listen to what you say, even if it is to my benefit.
No one can bring the country together as long as the “Me’s” refuse to join with the “We’s” to make real progress across the board.
Sources
1. Wilson: http://tinyurl.com/ydew8zek
PLAGIARISM is the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.
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