("Latinos for Donald Trump")
Wasn't it Mitt
Romney who spoke of making life so miserable for "illegal" immigrants
that they would self-deport? Wasn't there conversation in the Republican
debates of building a moat to keep out the unwanteds? Wasn't it
perfectly clear four years ago that the Hispanic community was
considered a blight upon our nation by one of our two parties? And yet
the numbers reveal that less than half of the eligible Hispanic voters
even appeared to cast a vote at the ballot box.
This is
intended as a blanket indictment of a nation that cannot be dragged from
its apathetic stupor. What could be more meaningful to the African
Americans in our nation than the re-election of Barack Obama? Yet one in
three did not exercise their fundamental right. I well understand the
impediments placed upon many in voting, made only more difficult by the
many methods employed by the Republicans to keep likely Democratic votes
from being cast. But that does not explain the staggering numbers who
stayed home on election day.
Mr. Trump may be around next
November, and, if so, his candidacy may signal a call to arms for those
deeply offended and aggrieved by his incomprehensibly inappropriate
remarks. But, until that day comes and evidence proves me wrong, history
teaches us that nothing will change this from a nation whose principal
vote is cast for no one.
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