Who will bell the cat?

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has developed a convention of taking on the communities wherever he goes. When Donald Trump announced early in his campaign that, if elected president, he would build a wall on the border of the United States and Mexico, and Mexico would pay for it, it led to murmurs, discussions and debates. Till then it seemed a laughable proposition. But none called it a slip of tongue, and Trump camp didn’t even deny it. From there on he has been doing it without fail, making many wonder about his real intent and goals. Last week Trump was in Las Vegas and while talking to a TV channel came out with another perspective and this time linked jobs with Afro Americans and cited jobs as the reason why the minority communities might vote for the Republican businessman and the presidential candidate. ‘Look, the African-Americans love me because they know I’m going to bring back jobs,’ Trump said. He pointed out the high unemployment rate for African-American and while discussing jobs and color he couldn’t resist mentioning President Obama. “Obama has done nothing for them. He’s African-American and he’s done nothing for them.” In order to make an impression he asserted hard to present an image of one who would be able to bring in jobs –but for African-Americans. Will he be creating jobs only for African-Americans? Certainly he can’t. But while saying so he left an indomitable impression that he can’t part away with his racist notes.

Wherever he has been going he has been raising a principled predicament for Americans, and doesn’t shun from doing the same even on twitter. Donald Trump got in front of a cheering crowd last month and declared that he wants to ban all Muslims from entering the United States. Can one man push an entire country into a moral crisis? In a country that took  pride just eight years back by electing a black president as a sign of tolerance and multiculturalism, this time gave Donald Trump unique support and his ratings went up after he proposed what would perhaps lead to unconstitutional religious discrimination, if he gets elected and goes on to implement his plan. With his overbearing style that border on racism, language that lacks the finesse of a statesman nobody thought that Donald Trump would make it longer than a month in his run for nomination.  Recent polls show that 65 percent of Republicans would support Donald Trump if he is nominated to lead the ticket. That’s up 30 percent from four months ago. If he gets elected as the President of the United States, he is bound to face a tough time as is evident from the reaction all around. Last week the British Parliament debated whether or not Trump should be barred from entering Britain.The session came after outrage over Trump’s call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States. A petition calling for the U.K. to bar him in return gained more than 570,000 signatures, enough under British parliamentary conventions to bring up the subject for debate time. Such a response from a moderate nation like England is just the least. Dominant Muslim nations may react differently. The debate may have not been good enough to call for a change of policy. But it did reveal a strong opposition and hostility to Donald Trump’s school of thought. The parliamentarians did even discuss –“Would banning him from Britain be a stand to protect the country’s minorities, or would it only serve to gain Trump greater publicity?”

Trump was mocked at by leaders and nations when a Sikh who objected to Donald Trump’s Muslim bashing at a campaign rally in Muscatine, Iowa, was thrown out. Arish Singh had carried a banner that had “Stop Hate” written. Twenty minutes into his speech Trump began his narration of how scary Muslims were. Trump painted a picture that Muslims—even Muslim Americans—were all a potential threat that could at any moment shoot even their friends. That is when Singh opened up the sheet, and bouncers pounced on him to throw him out.

 Trump made a joke, which seemed to be targeting Singh’s religious turban. Trump commented to the crowd, “He wasn’t wearing one of those hats was he?” There not only did Trump display his lack of knowledge of difference between Sikhs and Muslims, but also added another chapter to his hateful comments. At this point it’s certainly fair to assume Trump was again mocking a minority to the delight of his supporters.

Donald Trump is setting a difficult predicament. Instead of targeting minorities in the United States, he would do much better by keeping his focus on immigration. Keep is simple. Keep as many illegal immigrants out of the United States as possible. He wouldn’t be alone in this; there are many leaders worldwide who have been trying to do so without bothering about the ethnicity. But Trump in his attempt to be flamboyant just can’t resist attacking minorities, and at this stage one -wonders who will bell this cat?