You totally missed the point of why this is amusing for Trump to do.
The political left has staked a ton of their authority on the concept of Reparations for past actions and spent years calling out people for their ancestors and how slave owners need to pay.
Now their most hated enemy, the person they revile and attack at every moment, turns out to be the ONE political option that isn't descended from slave owners, which means despite all their whining and claims of honesty they are hypocrites.
This is a great little public 'fuck you' to the insane radical left screaming about slave owner ancestry while voting every year for one and ignoring the ONLY one who isn't.
He is bragging that he is not a descendant of slave owners like that means something.
You are not better than anyone just because your ancestors immigrated to the U.S. after slavery ended.
This is an asinine thing to brag about and it shifts the Overton window to the left on race.
He is making it easier for the left to pass racial shit like reparations with this.
This statement from him signifies that it is bad to be descended from slave owners.
He is not getting any Black votes with this shtick but he thinks he will. He pushed the Platinum Plan and the First Step Act and absolutely got nothing for it in terms of gaining Black votes. He certainly lost some White Male votes over it.
You totally missed the point of why this is amusing for Trump to do.
The political left has staked a ton of their authority on the concept of Reparations for past actions and spent years calling out people for their ancestors and how slave owners need to pay.
Now their most hated enemy, the person they revile and attack at every moment, turns out to be the ONE political option that isn't descended from slave owners, which means despite all their whining and claims of honesty they are hypocrites.
This is a great little public 'fuck you' to the insane radical left screaming about slave owner ancestry while voting every year for one and ignoring the ONLY one who isn't.
Pointing out hypocrisy is always a good thing.
He is normalizing their views of race.
This is not a fuck you.
He is bragging that he is not a descendant of slave owners like that means something.
You are not better than anyone just because your ancestors immigrated to the U.S. after slavery ended.
This is an asinine thing to brag about and it shifts the Overton window to the left on race.
He is making it easier for the left to pass racial shit like reparations with this.
This statement from him signifies that it is bad to be descended from slave owners.
He is not getting any Black votes with this shtick but he thinks he will. He pushed the Platinum Plan and the First Step Act and absolutely got nothing for it in terms of gaining Black votes. He certainly lost some White Male votes over it.
Trump needs to stop parroting leftist narratives.