CAN YOU HEAR THE VOICES?

Back in 2016, President Trump won a mere 8% of the POC votes, and fast forwarding to 2019, the President launched Black Voices For Trump – an awkward initiative to make people of color feel more involved in the supremacist America.

What are Black Voices? Can you hear them Mr. Trump?

As the decade nears its end and the new election year draws closer by the second, I’m left wondering whether those with skin that isn’t pale and hair that isn’t straw yellow will stand up to vote for a president who has described black people as rapists, criminals and vermin?

If you need a refresher on what Trump’s been onto, here’s a quick recap. He declared Baltimore as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess”. He’s also gone ahead and deemed Chicago as an “embarrassment to the nation” when asked about gun violence, poverty and ethnicity. He’s also endorsed the demonic Ku Klux Klan in 2016 and has also spoken against a Somali-born US congresswoman named Ilhan Omar.

And that’s not all. President Trump has also slandered the ex-President Obama, the first black president, and vocally claimed that he wasn’t a US national and still has barely 10% of the black vote to date.

So really, can he hear the black voices? Trump has been vocally hateful towards the black community, whether it’s a city with disadvantaged black citizens or colleagues in the political sphere – and it does not look good for him.

In an ideal world, there would be no votes for President Trump in the upcoming year. The social fabric of society has been reworked to create a more socially aware and conscious one. What was sexually deviant is now the new normal and people who were once enslaved are now worshipped as some of the most inspiring artists and immortalized as beauty icons—but there still exists an insane dichotomy between what we can see and what’s really going on.

This is what president trump is: A man with a volatile history between himself and women, people of color and anyone with a net worth that doesn’t match his. He’s been recorded to pass nauseatingly misogynistic statements and racist comments that have been embedded in his portfolio as a member of the public eye – so really, does Mr. Trump see anything worthy if it doesn’t look like him?

People of color, especially black folks, have long been fighting through centuries to be recognized as people of the land who have every right to exist, work, move and be like their white counterparts. It’s been far too long that the world has turned a deaf ear towards black voices, but with change becoming louder and catalyzing into something real with each passing moment, perhaps it’s time Mr. Trump will hear what Black Voices really sound like.