I think The Donald is a business man, so he truly doesn't see color for better and for worse. He's not going to be in the business of helping any group of people unless the end goal is profit/success. So depending upon how he sees it, "success" could be exploiting impoverished communities in one decade in order to "win" at business and then looking to save them in another decade in order to "win" at politics.
That is, race is irrelevant as long as he achieves the goals he sets his mind to.
Regarding the claims of Trump, it is mostly as Graphic T says. He says racially insensitive things, but that's about it. I won't speak to the xenophobia or sexism, because I'd need to look more into the comments.
I would say that having to back off of extreme statements like banning all people of a group, simply dismissing the claims of him entering pageant dressing rooms without giving a warning, acknowledging his ability to grab or touch women whether they want it or not because he's freaking Donald Trump (your lawyers would never beat his) isn't a good thing.
But back to race, he makes statements that beg a question that tacitly pushes for a response and an action based on very simple statistics:
That is a fact. It’s like how people call you racist for saying “black crime rate is higher”. It’s not it assumes nothing about a race or individuals just says numbers. People interpret those as racist themselves.
This, for example:
For a somewhat unrelated reason, I went and found some statistics about murder rates between blacks and whites. This is what I said:
Murders by race in 2013.
Murders by race in 2014.
These data are from the most recent released records from the FBI. Of course, it’s probably somewhat inaccurate, but probably not enough to make up the proportionate disparity.
- 2,756 of 2014 murders were committed by whites.
- 2,693 of 2014 murders were committed by blacks.
So 13% (black) of the population commits about the same amount of murders compared to another 77% (white) of the population.
So he’s right. No bones about it.
However, I probably wouldn’t want to associate with someone who uses that one bit of information to make a point about most blacks: Ultimately, in a country with well over 300,000,000, The 50,000,000 or so who are black had included…Less than 3,000 murderers.
That’s 0.006% of blacks.
That’s 0.001% of whites.
If you have to split hairs, the percentages are even smaller. There are actually about 51 million blacks, and fewer than 2,700 murders by blacks. So maybe 0.005% or 0.004%?
Saying blacks are more violent than whites is like saying my grape Kool-Aid has more sugar in it than your lemonade when my Kool-Aid has 100,000 crystals of sugar and your lemonade has 99,995 crystals.
Yes, that is 100% correct.
It is also practically irrelevant.
I figure that the murders are more situational than predisposed. And blacks end up in situations to murder more often than whites. But not enough to mean anything about the core nature of blacks.
So when people make statements like that, they're stating a true-to-life fact.
But it's probably going to end up being irrelevant as soon as you go into meaningful layers.
And speaking of "meaningful," even if you didn't go into the meaningful context of the statistics, why would you make an incendiary statement like that for no reason? Well, the most likely answers are that he's not politically savvy, or there actually was a reason. But neither is good.
That's what I mean by he "makes statements that beg a question that tacitly pushes for a response and an action."
When you make a statement like that as a politician on a stage as a politician, you say it for a political reason: You're going to address it. And if you just say "Blacks are more violent than whites" or "blacks commit more crimes than whites," you're implying you identify it as a problem, and you want to address it, because you're making the statement as a politician on the stage where you are in the role of a politician.
All the while, there's a horrible light being put on black people without any sympathy in the message or answer for why black people commit more crimes…beyond the fact that we do.
That very well could be because he's super awkward and tactless.
But what you say as the POTUS sets the tone for local leaders who have constituents that voted you, the President, into office. And it also legitimizes very simple folk who aren't going to think beyond what you say…liberal and conservative alike.
That said, on a personal level, a call for stop-and-frisk would suck for me since I live in a pretty bad area. I look as suspicious as everyone else, because I don't want to walk around in slack and a cardigan with an ascot. So despite no criminal record, I'd be having to deal with cops for no good reason a lot more.
The actual stop probably doesn't prevent crime as it is the actual fear and annoyance that everyone in an area would have to take on. Practically, I'd rather not be late to work, because someone got stabbed the night before and a short, black man in a hoodie fits the description. In terms of personal pride, I'm just going to be pissed at having to be stopped when I have no record and have more education than the average American. Like, I went to school and stayed out of trouble so I wouldn't have to deal with that, man.