Kid Rock recently insisted that President Donald Trump has been trying to “help” Black communities in Chicago by pushing to deploy National Guard troops in the city. But experts in history and Black social movements have since had a lot to say about why the musician’s arguments gravely missed the mark.
During a segment of Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” last week, host Laura Ingraham slammed Democratic leaders in Chicago and Illinois for consistently objecting to the Trump administration’s efforts to deploy National Guard troops to the city amid its purported mission to fight crime — even as overall violent crime rates in the country’s third-largest city have fallen.
“Democrats, let’s face it, they do not care about crime,” Ingraham said at one point in the segment before she asked Kid Rock, a prominent Trump supporter, to share his thoughts on Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and “others on the left who are just dismissing this issue that real people have to live with, day in and day out.”
“Well, the first thing that comes to my mind is, idiots, straight-up idiots,” he responded, before he later continued: “You know what really strikes [me] about this — speaking about Chicago — who is he really trying to help out here? Black people. The south side of Chicago, predominately Black. These are where these murders and shootings are taking place, the majority of them — they’re not out in the suburbs or somewhere.”
