Laurelton: Lyndon B. Johnson once said, “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
” Sadly, this is still true. The world watched Donald Trump lose to Kamala Harris during their debate. He refused to be interviewed by “60 Minutes” because he did not want to be fact-checked, was found guilty on 34 felony charges and jeopardized our national security by stealing top-secret documents and leaving them scattered all over his Mar-a-Lago home for anyone to pick up and read.
On top of that, he separated children from their families and lost those children in bureaucratic red tape, was impeached twice and lied more than 40,000 times while increasing our national debt to more than $8 trillion. To America, it did not matter because his opponent was an upstanding, well-educated and highly qualified Black woman who had plans and policies that would have richly benefited us all. But many voting women whose reproductive rights Trump stripped away, Gold Star families he disrespected and whose funds he taxed, and Puerto Ricans he abandoned and allowed to be insulted all voted for him because, in spite of his heavy orange glow of inferiority and treachery, he gave them the false pride of being better than those whose pigmentation is darker than theirs.
As Johnson stated, they did not see Trump picking their pockets, and in.
