Interesting cultural shift

So I do some volunteer math tutoring at a local community college here in San Diego as a part of my company’s STEM initiative. This particular community college is located close to some of the lower income neighborhoods and the student body is primarily working class and lower income Hispanic and black. Nearly all the kids work during the day and take classes at night, and something like 85% are the first in their family to pursue post HS education. I really like most of them because they are there voluntarily in their free time trying to better themselves when they could be at home or hanging out with friends.

Now I certainly don’t discuss politics with them but I do overhear the various conversations that come up during study hall. Some of them discuss politics in terms of what’s in the news lately. In years past Obama was their hero for obvious reasons, primarily because he was black and seemed intelligent.

Lately (and increasingly frequently) I’ve noticed more and more admiration for Trump. It’s obviously not universal, plenty like Bernie, but still it’s remarkable to me to hear a black kid from a crime-ridden neighborhood in California talk about what a G Trump is.

A few snippets I’ve overheard:

“I ain’t even know how to vote. But if I did, it’d be for Trump. Know why? He know how to GET MONEY”

“Naw fam, I ain’t gonna vote for none of that fruity shite. Even his name fruity, it sounds like BOOTY-GUY. Imma vote for Trump cuz his girl is fiiiire bro. I think she used to be a Victoria secret model, no lie.”

“Bro how you gone vote for a Democrat, they lame as frick. Who you like, that homo dude or that old grandma-looking bitch?”

(After the Suleimani killing):
“Trump don’t play that shite. You gonna come at him he’ll pull that nine on yo arse.”

(On impeachment):
“They just playin’ games cuz Trump don’t play that shite. All they wanna do is talk, be on TV and all that.”

Just thought it’s amazing how much the ground has shifted over the last couple decades. Young people are more perceptive then you think, and they can smell a phony from a mile away. The ONLY dem candidate who doesn’t come off that way is Bernie, and I’ll admit plenty of them like him. Still, I’d say just as many like our current sitting GOP president which would have been unthinkable even 10 years ago.