Democrats and their college-graduate media allies are scoffing at President Donald Trump’s campaign charge that President Joe Biden’s migration has economically damaged blue-collar black and Hispanic Americans. The evasion by university-trained political activists is partly intended to counter Trump’s partially successful outreach to blue-collar black men who recognize the pocketbook damage from migration.
There’s too many people coming across the border, getting all the jobs and I don’t like that,” Carling Colbert, a black retired warehouse worker from Macon, Ga., told the Washington Post for a June 30 article. Trump was better on that. He tried to build the wall.
The fact is that [Biden’s] big kill on the Black people is the millions of people that he’s allowed to come in through the border [and] they’re taking Black jobs now,” Trump said in his debate with Biden. They’re taking Black jobs and they’re taking Hispanic jobs. And you haven’t seen it yet, but you’re going to see something that’s going to be the worst in our history,” he added.
The morning after the debate, Democratic activists and left-leaning journalists railed against Trump’s comments. Most of the Democratic responses focused on Trump’s literal words — “black jobs” — rather than his serious change of economic damage. The New York Times responded: “Black political strategists, elected officials, and heads of organizations quickly joined hundreds of social media users to post photos of themselves at their workplaces and to crack jokes about the reductive and racial nature of the former president’s comments,” the New York Times responded on June 28.
There is no such thing as a Black job,” said Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, adding, “We are doctors, lawyers, school teachers, police officers and firefighters … A ‘Black job’ is an American job … But the divisive nature of this comment is not surprising for Donald Trump.
Trump’s rivals were also quick to throw the racism charge, despite his stated concerns for black employment. He didn’t say they’re taking jobs from all Americans because he doesn’t think of those jobs as ones held by typical Americans — white people like him,” wrote columnist Leslie Gray Streeter in the Washington Post on June 30.
Poll data shows that working-class blacks are more likely to declare opposition to mass migration than university-trained blacks who fill white-collar jobs in government and advocacy groups. Breitbart News reported in 2018: “It appears that class membership is a more powerful force in shaping the attitudes of Blacks in comparison to Whites … For African Americans who lost a job to an immigrant, working-class membership resulted in a 13 percentage point increase in the probability of support for an increased federal role in workplace oversight [agains employment of illegal immigrants] when compared to middle-class African Americans who experienced a similar loss.
The Associated Press acknowledged the polls show that many black Americans recognize that they lose from Biden’s migration: “About 4 in 10 Black adults say it’s a “major risk” that the number of jobs available to American workers will be reduced when immigrants come to the U.S. whether they arrive legally or illegally — according to an AP-NORC poll from March.
Amid the media complaints, Trump’s criticism of migration pocketbook impact is now part of his standard stump speech. Biden “is the biggest phony on Earth,” Trump said in a recent event. Virtually all of the net jobs created under Biden have gone to migrants — almost 100 percent of the jobs created by crooked Joe.