Democrats and the media are once again accusing someone in the Trump administration of being racist — usually a sign that someone said something definitely not racist. This time, it’s senior White House adviser Jared Kushner.
The president’s son-in-law made the point Monday on Fox News that Trump’s policies are designed to create more economic opportunities for black Americans and that they only work if they’re taken advantage of, meaning that they require a degree of personal initiative.
“One thing we’ve seen in a lot of the black community, which is mostly Democrat, is that President Trump’s policies are the policies that can help people break out of the problems that they’re complaining about,” he said. “But he can’t want them to be successful more than they want to be successful.”
A spokesman for the Democratic National Committee called the comment “dismissive” and “indicative of Trump’s callousness and disregard for the lives of Black people.”
Benjamin Crump, an opportunistic lawyer who throws himself into every incident that he can make about race, said Kushner was speaking “as if Black people are lazy complainers who don’t want to be successful.”
New York Times liberal Jamelle Bouie reacted to Kushner’s remarks in a tweet, writing, “[It’s] worth noting that ‘they just don’t want to work’ has been in the racist’s bag of rhetorical tricks since the moment the ink was dry on the thirteenth amendment.”
The immediate attacks from liberals on Kushner’s harmless comments are simply meant to feed into the learned helplessness that they’ve been trying to cultivate in black Americans for decades.
The Democratic Party is dependent upon keeping black voters convinced that they are incapable of solving their problems on their own. Anyone who says otherwise, Democrats say, is a racist because they are apparently implying that those problems are their fault to some degree.
It’s true that black Americans have a unique history that has set them back. But fortunately, their circumstances are usually not insurmountable. And at the same time, no one can guarantee anyone else’s success.
That’s what Kushner was saying. And it’s true.
