Blacks owe Trump chance to succeed

I'm reading in the newspaper some anxious comments from black citizens regarding Donald Trump's election victory. I recall being an anxious and disappointed black voter back in 1984.

I was suspicious of my white coworkers the day after Reagan was reelected. I had digested the garbage that the mainstream media was spewing about Republican presidents. I had been convinced that all Republicans wanted to oppress and torment blacks; therefore, the whites had sent a message to us blacks by reelecting a Republican. My fears were unfounded.

It was under Republican President Eisenhower that the 1957 Civil Rights Act was enacted. It was Republican President Nixon who signed into law the first affirmative action program and instituted large-scale integration of public schools in the South.Under Republican President Ronald Reagan black household incomes rose by 12 percent or $3,306. And in 1983 Reagan signed a bill making the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. a national holiday.

Mr. Trump states that his new deal for the African American rests on three pillars - "safe communities, great education, and high-paying jobs"

The Republican platform is primarily opposition to abortion funding, the right to bear arms, and support of traditional marriage. The Republican platform has never included the mission of making life miserable for blacks.

I refuse to believe that most blacks are against protecting the unborn, the right to bear arms and traditional marriage. We may have more in common with the Republicans than we want to admit. I think we blacks ought to give this man a chance.

As Secretary Hillary Clinton so gracefully stated, "We owe Trump an open mind and a chance to lead."

Charles Danyus

Round Lake Beach,