What do black voters have to lose by voting Trump?

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Well, this for instance:

Thus when he asks African-Americans, “What do you have to lose by trying something new, like Trump?” he betrays ignorance of the reality that most African-Americans work hard for a living and that there is a large black middle class. Oh, and 86 percent of nonelderly black adults have health insurance, up from 73 percent in 2010 thanks to Obamacare. Maybe they do have something to lose?

No, Donald Trump, America Isn’t a Hellhole - The New York Times

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Not all bad news..

More than seven years after the recession ended, black workers’ earnings are accelerating sharply. Median usual weekly earnings for full-time black workers rose 9.8% in the third quarter from a year earlier, the fastest rate of growth on records back to 2000, according to data the Labor Department released Thursday. The recent gains mean the increase in earnings for blacks since the recession ended in mid-2009, 15.7%, is now outpacing the gain for whites, 13.3%, and Latinos, 15.5%. But bulk of the improvement for blacks and Latinos has occurred in the past two years.

Black Workers See Fastest Wage Growth in More Than 15 Years - Real Time Economics - WSJ

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More than seven years after the recession ended, black workers’ earnings are accelerating sharply. Median usual weekly earnings for full-time black workers rose 9.8% in the third quarter from a year earlier, the fastest rate of growth on records back to 2000, according to data the Labor Department released Thursday. The recent gains mean the increase in earnings for blacks since the recession ended in mid-2009, 15.7%, is now outpacing the gain for whites, 13.3%, and Latinos, 15.5%. But bulk of the improvement for blacks and Latinos has occurred in the past two years.

Black Workers See Fastest Wage Growth in More Than 15 Years - Real Time Economics - WSJ

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What did black voters have to lose voting for Trump? Quite a bit, as it turns out..

Juliet Eilperin, Emma Brown, and Darryl Fears reported for the Washington Post that Trump’s proposed budget would make several major cuts to civil rights work as part of broader cost-saving measures:

• The Department of Labor will fold its Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs into the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Historically, the two offices play different roles: The Labor Department’s office, which holds 600 employees, is tasked with systemically auditing companies that the federal government contracts with for discrimination, while the EEOC generally responds to individual complaints of discrimination. The move would hinder the federal government’s ability to investigate contractors’ abuses in a systemic manner.
  
• The Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights Division would see big staffing cuts, among other reductions. The proposal acknowledges this would cause problems: “To address steady increases in the number of complaints received and decreased staffing levels, OCR must make difficult choices, including cutting back on initiating proactive investigations. … OCR’s enforcement staff will be limited in conducting onsite investigations and monitoring, and OCR’s ability to achieve greater coordination and communication regarding core activities will be greatly diminished.”
  
• The Environmental Protection Agency would shut down its environmental justice program, which offers aid to minority communities exposed to health hazards from pollution.
  

That’s on top of various other actions the Trump administration has already taken to pull back on the Obama administration’s civil rights advances, including the Justice Department’s decision to stymie investigations into police departments for civil rights abuses and the Education Department’s move to revoke a guidance that asked public schools to shield transgender students from discrimination.

Trump asked what black Americans have to lose by voting for him. His budget gives a clear answer. - Vox

And that's not nearly all of it, see the article..

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This progress they have to lose:

The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) expansion of Medicaid and reforms to the individual insurance market, including subsidized coverage for people with incomes up to four times the poverty line, have helped to lower the uninsured rate for nonelderly African Americans by more than one-third between 2013 and 2016, from 18.9 percent to 11.7 percent.  But there is room for improvement.  African Americans have higher uninsured rates than whites (7.5 percent) and Asian Americans (6.3 percent).[1],[2]  The likelihood of having health coverage shouldn’t vary by a person’s race or ethnicity; building on the success of the ACA could go a long way to eliminating health insurance coverage disparities, while repealing the ACA and cutting Medicaid would reverse recent progress.

African American Uninsured Rate Dropped by More Than a Third Under Affordable Care Act | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

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A little less than a year ago, then-candidate Donald Trump made his pitch to black and Latino voters: “What do you have to lose?” More than six months into his presidency, Trump is giving a very clear answer to that question: quite a lot, actually. Most recently, the New York Times reported that Trump’s Justice Department is reportedly setting up a team to potentially investigate and sue universities whose affirmative action policies supposedly discriminate against students based on their race.

If this leads to schools pulling back affirmative action programs, this will likely hurt both black and Latino students. The researchshows that, at least in some states, black and Latino people — who are already generally underrepresented in universities — see their representation further decline if affirmative action is banned.
But this is only the latest thing the Trump administration has done to pull back racial justice and civil rights gains. Here are a few other examples

Trump asked what minority Americans have to lose by voting for him. We now have a clear answer. - Vox

For the other examples see the rest of the story

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HUD has become a front for an almost religious assault on the social safety net—under the first president ever accused of personally violating the Fair Housing Act (by refusing to rent to black tenants in the 1960s and ’70s). When he appointed Carson, a bureaucratic novice with no background in housing policy, Trump signaled his apathy toward a $50 billion agency. HUD quickly become a punchline, a magnet for hangers-on—Eric Trump’s wedding planner now oversees all public housing authorities in New York and New Jersey—whose blundering was encapsulated by the botched cover-up of Carson’s request to purchase a $31,000 dining-­room set for his office.

But the agency is also in the middle of a major reorientation. Carson may not know what he’s doing, but he knows what he wants. He once told an interviewer that poverty is “more of a choice than anything else”; by proposing to raise rents in subsidized buildings, slash budgets, and tear down homes, Carson and the Trump administration are forcing the working poor to choose something else.

Donald Trump Asked, “What Do You Have to Lose?” This Illinois Town Found Out. – Mother Jones

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President Trump reportedly called his condemnation of white supremacists after the deadly 2017 Charlottesville rally the “biggest f---king mistake” he had ever made, according to an excerpt from Bob Woodward’s new book that was obtained by The Washington Post. Trump faced widespread criticism after he initially said that “both sides” were to blame for the violence that broke out at the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., last August. He later condemned white supremacists and neo-Nazis at the urging of his advisers, according to Woodward. “That was the biggest f---ing mistake I’ve made,” Trump reportedly told aides almost immediately after the condemnation. Trump also called it the “worst speech I’ve ever given,” according to Woodward's account.

Trump said condemning white supremacists was ‘biggest f---ing mistake I’ve made’: Woodward book | TheHill

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Meghan McCain resurfaced a video of her father’s handling of a heckler who accused his 2008 presidential opponent Barack Obama of being an Arab as President Trump comes under fire for chants made by his supporters about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) at a recent rally.  In the video tweeted by McCain, her father, the late Arizona Sen. John McCain ®, could be seen taking a microphone away from his supporter at one of his campaign rallies in 2008 after she called him an “Arab.” “I can’t trust Obama,” she told John McCain. “I have read about and he’s not — he’s not — he’s an Arab.”  For anyone who needs reminding of how a lot of Republicans like me were raised and how we view the world. I love you Dad and I've never missed your leadership more.https://t.co/OdXvTqlH4u — Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) July 18, 2019 The then-presidential candidate could be seen taking the microphone from the supporter while shaking his head before going on to say: “No, ma’am. He’s a decent family man, citizen who I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues.” “And that’s what this campaign is all about,” he continued. “He’s not.

Meghan McCain shares video of father shutting down supporter who called Obama an 'Arab' after Trump rally | TheHill

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Trump, meanwhile, has wholly disregarded how his strategy and policies don’t help Black communities — from his rhetoric that sows division to his inaction in addressing the coronavirus pandemic that has killed nearly 1 in 1,000 Black people in the US. Here’s a look at what Trump has and hasn’t done for Black communities and why his campaign’s recently released plan for Black America is a vague last-ditch effort to lock in Black voters.

What has Trump done for Black people? Here’s what his record shows. - Vox

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