African american community. Heres how to join the conversation. Again African American callers only for the first 45 minutes. We have covered a number of speeches both from donald trump and Hillary Clinton this week as the rhetoric increases on the issue of race. And heres the front page this morning of the Washington Times and their headline. Clinton and trump bring bigotry to the president ial race. The New York Times and their reporting of that speech in reno, nevada which we covered and you can find in our library. Well read more and show you a bit more of Hillary Clintons speech. Well start where the week started for donald trump in akron, ohio, and his appeal to African American voters. Heres some of what he had to say. Violent crime rose 17 in he 15th largest u. S. City. This is the legacy of president obama and Hillary Clinton. It cant get any worse. , what e suffering, i say do you have to lose in trying trump . What do you have to lose . I will fix this. I will fix this. Will fix the problem. With rates of crime, with rates of poverty like youve just heard, what do you have to lose . I will fix the problem. We will fix it. Let me tell you what we have to gain. Re jobs will bring brought in. I will be the greatest jobs president that god ever created. Elieve me. Higher wages and a massive reduction in the terrible crimes plaguing our inner cities. We are going to turn it all around. Give donald trump a chance. I say this to the African AmericanCommunity Give donald trump a chance. We will turn it around. We will make your streets safe. So when you walk down the street you dont get shot, which is what is happening now. Host donald trump asking the African American voters to give him a chance. His words. Were asking our African American viewers this morning and listeners for the first 45 minutes to call in. And your thoughts obhis outreach. Lori, a democrat in tampa, florida. Caller good morning. I just dont believe his gal, really. Hes stereo typing the black 90 nity and in front of a to 99 whilet audience. Hes not talking to black people. Hes talking against African Americans. Why is he stereotyping African Americans as jobless, hopeless, were criminals . We cant walk down our neighborhoods without being shot . That he stereotype has played on with other minority groups and i feel quite frankly im insulted. Hes not talking to the black community. Hes talking about the black community to the people that he wants to draw into his campaign, which is not African Americans. It is the moderate white americans who are on the fence right now. Ed. Oris comments reflect a couple days ago titled donald trump talks about urban blacks not with them. Heres lisa. Caller good morning. I totally disagree with the lady from tampa. Donald trump did try to talk directly to the black community in chicago he couldnt because the black lives matter group shut him completely down and he had to cancel the event. Im so saddened by black america. They dont realize that the democrats have been so disaster rust in every cities, in every state that has got high cribe, horrible schools, mayhem everywhere. It has been run by democrats. Donald trump is exactly correct. Hillary clinton and barack obama have done nothing for minorities. What theyve done is put black eople in ghettos, they put spanics in bar yos, American Indians in reservations. Wake up. Lets try trump. I believe he is going to turn the ship around, he is going to bring jobs. He is going to eliminate criminals. He is going to kick out the criminals that have crossed our borders illegally. What else do you want . Host heres washington, d. C. Thanks for that call. Caller good morning. I would like to preface my comments by saying i do agree with the previous caller who just spoke about democratic rules and how many major cities that have democratic and African American mayors exactly the cities are doing poorly with their schools, et cetera. However, giving the person lets review Donald Trumps history. E was discriminating against African Americans and hispanic people in his housing areas. Everyone forgets the central park and his role in causing a fervor in asking for the execution of five young men that were actually acquitted of the crime that they never committed. We forget also that his whole tenor and tone throughout the entire time here has been one of racial divide and using race as a kind of casting to get certain parts of our republic to vote for him. He didnt even wasnt honest with his association with david duke knowing that he had previously spoke negatively about hifment and when asked about groups like the k. K. K. He says i dont know what that group is. I cant disavow groups that i dont understand. So someone who says he doesnt understand what the k. K. K. Is about, granted, democrats have done to me a poor job as well in terms of making sure our communities progress. But the alternative is not to give this gentleman who has a history of showing that he definitely has a problem. Im not sure he is a racist but he certainly has used race and racial host Hillary Clinton made some of those similar comments. Again, she spoke yesterday in reno, nevada. Heres some of what she had to say. In just this past week, under the guise of outreach to African Americans, trump has stood up in front of largely white audiences and describes black communities in such insulting and ignorant terms. Poverty, rejection, horrible education, no housing, no homes, no ownership, crime at levels nobody has seen. Right now he said you can walk down the street and get shot. Those are his words. But when i hear them, i think to myself how sad. Donald trump misses so much. He doesnt see the success of black leaders in every field, the vibrancey of blackowned businesses, the strength of the black church. E doesnt see [applause] he doesnt see the excellence of historicically black colleges and universities or the pride of black parents watching their children thrive. He apparently didnt see police chief brown of dallas on television after the murders of five of his officers conducting. Imself with such dignity he certainly doesnt have any solutions to take on the reality of systemic racism and create more equity and opportunity in communities of color and for every american. It really does take a lot of rve to ask people hes ignored and mistreated for decades, what do you have to lose . Because the answer is everything. Host again first 45 minutes of washington journal asking African Americans only to call in with your thoughts on Donald Trumps outreach efforts reflecting that statement by donald trump, what have you got to lose . The daily news this morning in their headline, heres what i have to lose by voting for you, don. Leads to a piece by the daily news comment opinion writer Leonard Green. All rational thoughts. Thats the opinion of Leonard Green from the daily news. Back to calls. Democratic caller. Good morning. Caller good morning. Greetings from motown. Anyway, in response to the caller from georgia, she couldnt be not only more naive but also more incredibly smug. Ive heard plenty of her white friends im sure she has white ones lament about all the problems in the supposed democratic cities. I want to bring up a couple of issues. First of all, these problems would have existed regardless of which party was in control. And as far as Donald Trumps socalled outreach, hes speaking ironically about these issues to the very people who have always hated us. Older conservative whites. And if donald trump thinks for even a second that black people are going to be buying the white conservatism that he sells, i think hes got another thing coming. Nd one last point. White people always use a lot of revisionist history about the Democratic Party, and thats why theyre going to see this propaganda film. I dont know if youre familiar with it. Hillarys america. Telling all sorts of depiss torsions and lies about the Democratic Party. They seem to forget there was a party switch in that that was called for in 68 during the Richard Nixon president ial campaign. A lot of white people, including the whites who may be friends of the caller from georgia, seem to forget that. I mean, all of these urban problems that theyre talking about. What makes her think that a white republican will do any better for those cities than a democrat . Host lets hear from another city, this time richmond, virginia. And republican caller. Caller thank you. The question what do i have to lose . I think the question, maybe what have i already lost. Ecause im from the 60s. Democrats were always more the racist groups than the republicans. So what happened in 68 when Lyndon Johnson became president and look what he had after kennedy, he signed the voter rights act, the civil rights bill and most of the ration democrats went over to the Republican Party. I know that changed. When you Start Talking about talking in front of people and white audiences, i remember the bombings in birmingham. White people generally im not a racist by the way. They didnt really pay too much attention what was going on. They watched television, they could see all the stuff. But when those three little girls got killed in that church, then it was a different attitude. So you say trump talks to white people and he doesnt talk to black people. E whites [inaudible] i was listening what happened in when the police were killed, they killed a man on the ground. The blacks were saying, well, what were going to do is were going to go somewhere else and were going to boycott the city. Who are you going to boycott . Who are you going to boycott . Where are you going to march to . Think about it. At home i have a book called the green book. Thats what black people use when they travel. Every city, you can find businesses and you can find stores, especially places to stay. So racism is something that host how recently would you have had to use this is a book that allowed you to stay in places that were friendly. Caller right. The last was 1960. I have a 1960 copy. Black folks sort of threw it away in 1960. But i kept a copy because i knew that 50 years ago, i knew that people wanted to see this novelty. What are we doing to the blacks . We dont have businesses, all weve got is barber shops and beauty shops. And here, in richmond, virginia, i dont think theres black store that has a lot lottery machine. Here can i find a black store . Host the people that own the stores, who own them . Caller they come from other countries. And 711s and a lot of the convenience stores. Host charles, thanks for being with us this morning. Asking your thoughts on Donald Trumps outreach efforts. This is the washington journal this week writing about some of those efforts. Back to calls. New jersey, welcome to walter on our democrats line. Good morning. Caller Donald Trumps message may be more receptive if it didnt come off in a condescending way. He comes off in a way that he is pandering. And let me thats not a partisan thing neither. Because clinton seems to be pandering to blacks and hispanics. We should see through that, too. Host thanks for the call. Florida next up. Republican caller. Caller i have three reasons why im voting for trump and i think that trump sacramentoly doing a good job because hes not politician so hes not going to be refined. We sclain we want regular people and when we have regular people that arent used to the crafted responses we complain. So the first reason is the media, if you ask a person portrays blacks as thieves, thugs, pimps, criminals, and they drive victims of Police Violence through the mud. The media does that. Now, the same media is telling us black folks that we shouldnt trust trump because hes the racist . I find that very ironic. Now, secondly, the reason another reason why is that when exactly did trump become a racist . Is he after he got the nomination . Before . Because i could have sworn prior to him getting the nomination nobody was really saying that he was a racist. And even if hes a racist, i kind of want to give white people their obama. And even if he is a racist, lets say he is a racist. He throws out all the mexican people, he brings back jobs, to the factories to the whites. Whos going to benefit . Blacks. Because if there arent any illegals here blacks are going to get the jobs. Theres no way that trump will be able to give only white people jobs. Host were asking you the first part of the program, African American callers only, your thoughts on the outreach efforts of the donald Trump Campaign. The front page this morning of the washington journal. President ial rivals exchange harsh attacks. Donald trump, she lies she smears and paints decent americans as racists. Hillary clinton, theres been a steady stream of bigotry coming from him. Heres some of what she had to say in that speech in reno, nevada. This is donald trump from manchester, new hampshire, also from yesterday. I apologize. The news reports are that Hillary Clinton is going to try and accuse this campaign and ll of you, and the millions of decent americans at record levels there has never been anything like this. This is a movement we have. This was set up this event was set up late last night and look what happens. Look how many people. [cheers and applause] its a movement, folks, like theyve never seen before. And dont accuse decent americans who support this campaign your campaign of being racist. Which were not. Its the oldest play in the dackic playbook. Democratic playbook. When democratic policies fail, they are left with only this one tired argument. Youre racist, youre racist, youre racist. They keep saying it. Youre racist. Its a tired disgusting argument. And its so totally predictable. Theyre failing so badly. Its the last row fuge of the discredited democratic politicians. They keep going back to the same well but you know what . The people are becoming very smart. Theyve heard it too many times before. Host follow that speech at cspan. Org. Some reaction to the whole issue here in the Washington Post. And Virginia Governor terry mcallive. More at cspan wj. Independent line. Caller good morning to cspan. Ive been listening to cspan now for over 25 years. Host thanks. Caller and i really enjoy listening to the program. I think its about the best. I use it for news, for true news. Unfiltered news. But in the situation, the conversation were dealing with this morning, what appauls me is that you get some i dont call them black folks, i call them colored folks. Theyre after one thing and thats materialistic things thats going to proffer them from a money standpoint. Thats their support of donald trump because they think theyre going to get some money, some materialistic to proffer them. They dont care about the people. They dont care about the children. They dont care about the elderly. Theyre not concerned about the veterans that are suffering. But the thing that really gets me is the fact that we have the Largest Group of evangelicals following this man. And believing in this man. Who is supposed to be the ones that are leading the way for righteousness. But yet they are pandering to this man. And what is even more unsettling is the fact that these same people these same people, on sunday morning at 11 00 dont want blacks in their churches. They say thing that is they dont want blacks to hear. Donald trump is not concerned about black folks. Donald trump is not concerned about the welfare and the prosperity of black folks. Donald trump is a con man. Hes a con man. And i say it. The antichrist and its the spirit, its the spirit of cant christ. Will fool the very elect. Those evangelicals and those called christian preachers that are out there moving to donald trump are so sadly mistaken. Host lewis next up in virginia. Caller hello. Host good morning. Youre on the air. Caller first of all, id like to say to the caucasians out there, they have no know the difference between a bigot and a racist. A bigot is a person who has less money and less education. A racist is a person that has education and money. So a racist can control a bigot. Most caucasians in this country are bigots because they cant think for themselves. Another thing. Trump is nowhere near a billionaire. Hes got people believing hes a billionaire. If hes a billionaire, im a trillion nare because im i read things about him and his wealth. And he aint nowhere near where he is saying he is. And then another thing is he says that hes going to bring these jobs back to this country. Well, let me tell you something. Those jobs are gone for good. They are not come back here. Why should if i was a businessperson, with a business, why should i pay you people 15, 20 an hour when i can get people in taiwan or wherever and pay them 2 an hour . Host Donald Trumps polls nationally among African Americans under 5 but looking from Historical Context on how republicans have done with the black community looking to a 2008 based on exit polls among whites, president obama 43 in 2008 and 55 for john mccain. Among African Americans 95 for barack obama and 4 for john mccain. In 2012, for president obama got 39 of the white vote, mitt romney got 59 of the African American vote. In 2012, the African American vote for mitt romney was 6 and 93