Race relations will improve under Trump

A lot of people have hammered Donald Trump for what they perceive as racist tendencies. Although I don't want to defend Trump when he legitimately crosses certain lines, most of the criticism is actually unfounded. Although Trump is far from perfect, I would be absolutely shocked if race relations don't improve during his presidency.


In the early years of the U.S., many Americans were raised with an explicit message of racial inequality. Those days are long gone, and they are not coming back in the foreseeable future.

Despite improvements over the years, I can't deny the existence of racism. Some people maintain racial biases that are unfortunately a part of human nature. Others are just bad people who reject our improved understanding of race.

In my life, I have never seen race relations worse than they are right now. Short of systematically promoting racism through means such as schooling, current tensions can't easily reach what we have seen over the last eight years. There is only one possible explanation for what we are seeing. Something has to be fueling racism.

Some people such as Barack Obama and members of the Black Lives Matter movement seem to believe in pushing a reversal of past racial trends. They believe that because whites treated blacks so poorly in the past, the best solution would be for blacks to get away with similar mistreatment of whites. This fuels racism in two different ways. By convincing blacks that whites are their enemies, blacks embrace racist tendencies. On the other side of the issue, whites develop an unhealthy resentment of blacks. This is why numerous liberal websites have brought up evidence of increasing racism coming from whites. Oddly enough, they actually use this as an argument to push race even harder.

Trump is certainly not going to be the best person to deal with our country's current racial divide. Due to the nature of this divide, he doesn't have to be. All he has to do is ease up, and we will see improvement.

I have stated that it would be nearly impossible for the recession to continue for four years if Obama had done nothing. Obama lucked out with the economy in the sense that just being in office would make him look good. It's the same thing with race relations under Trump. We will see improvement regardless of Trump's performance. When his first (and likely only) term is up, some people will try to give him credit for the improvements. Those people will be wrong. Trump will have had nothing to do with the inevitable.