While running for President, Ben Carson had this to say.
"Asked about racial strife in America, this prominent, groundbreaking black politician, long on ideas but not governing experience, called for unity, not conflict.
"Our strength as a nation comes in our unity," he said in a national radio interview. "We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn't let them do it."
http://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2015/10/02/ben-carsons-different-take-on-race
Such strategy would be opposed to Donald Trump's approach which appears to be divisive.
Ask why Black America looks to be more dissatisfied today than before Obama, for instance? Carson and Trump blame Obama, while Obama is a president who has sought to make improvements against the tide of a hostile Republican Congress.
Republican policy has it that people in need should work harder to make a difference on their own. They deny that the nation isn't providing sufficient opportunity, not only for Black Americans but poor and middle-class Americans' too.
Make an exception to that when Donald Trump blamed NAFTA, Mexicans and Chinese for undermining all Amercian workers' opportunities.
Trump has a point. Yet, the ball has been in the Republican Congress' court for a long time and there has been no movement to address the need for a sustainable economy that ensures sufficient opportunity for a good life for all Americans who work for it.
Details, American voters must press for details that define and describe how all Americans will be provided adequate upward mobile opportunities commensurate with their best effort.
Brookings Institute research indicates that half of Black Americans born poor stay that way.
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