By Selwyn Duke

It’s arguably true that agitation by organization Black Lives Matter (tag-teaming with Antifa) hobbled President Donald Trump’s 2020 election chances. This is why it’s ironic that while he’s maligned as a “racist,” Trump may enjoy a unique status.

He may be the real “Black Lives Matter” president.

That is, in the sense of actually caring about, and saving, black lives.

At issue is a peace deal the Trump administration brokered recently between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda. Trump hosted foreign ministers from the two nations at the White House Friday to sign the deal, making it official.

The president promised the agreement would, reports the Washington Examiner,

bring an end to decades of “violent bloodshed and death” between the two African nations.

Supporters of the president have said he should receive the Nobel Peace prize for his work to mediate an end to that conflict, as well as broker peace deals between Israel and Iran, and India and Pakistan.

Note that Pakistani officials themselves had already announced that they would recommend Trump for the prize. This was much to everyone’s surprise and to the Left’s plaintive cries. This is, too, why the story hasn’t gotten robust news coverage.

The Magnitude

And so was the Congo-Rwanda conflict itself ignored; it’s one of those many wars you just don’t hear about. This isn’t because it hasn’t been brutal, though. As commentator Andrea Widburg writes, relating the history and harsh reality:

For people who lived through the 1990s, when they think of Rwanda, they think of the appalling massacre that the Hutus committed against the Tutsis in 1994, killing around a million people in a matter of days.

And if you’re a history major, as I am, when you think of the Congo, you think of…a place of appallingly violent civil warfare.

… Perhaps unsurprisingly given the DRC’s and Rwanda’s shared border, it turns out that those two benighted nations also have a shared recent history, insofar as they’ve been warring with each other for decades. It all started with that massacre, when the tables turned and approximately two million Hutus, including many prominent figures in the massacre, fled Rwanda for the neighboring DRC.

After that, according to a Grok summary, it gets really complicated, and I won’t even try to summarize events. However, the big picture is that there was a “First Congo War” from 1996-1997 and a “Second Congo War” from 1998-2003. These two wars were followed by a “Post-War Insurgency and M23 Conflict” that lasted from the end of the Second Congo War to the present. The key point is that, thanks to this non-stop fighting, the estimated death toll is between 5.5 to 6.5 million people — mostly, obviously, non-combatants.

The Trump administration looked at this morass and said, “no.” So, behind the scenes, the State Department under Marco Rubio (who is rapidly becoming one of my favorite people in our government) began negotiations.

The rest is history — and current events.

Puts His Critics to Shame

Of course, and as Widburg correctly mentions, it’s unknown if this peace will hold given the combatants’ deep mutual hatred. (Not to mention that man’s nature often ensures that a peace ends up in pieces.) Nonetheless, Trump does at the moment have some impressive peacemaker triumphs to hang his hat on (relevant tweet below).

He also has, in multiple ways, done far more to save black lives than any of his critics or those they admire. Just consider Bill Clinton, dubbed the “first black president” by author Toni Morrison in 1998. It’s not just that he fiddled during the aforementioned Rwandan genocide. It’s that, reported the left-wing Guardian in 2004, Clinton was “aware of [the] ‘final solution’ to eliminate Tutsis.”

But his administration “buried the information to justify its inaction,” according to classified documents made available in 2004, relates the outlet.

This isn’t to imply the United States should be the world’s policeman or that we can solve all the world’s woes. The point is, imagine if Trump (or any GOP president) had behaved likewise. Would he not be maligned as a racist for ignoring the extermination of one million black people?

Tip of the Iceberg

Then there’s the black-on-black violence here at home — that is, homicide. Trump, and Republicans generally, believe in robust law-and-order policies. And while it’s claimed that aggressive policing hurts blacks, the truth is quite the opposite.

When leftists pursue “de-policing” and other slap-on-the-wrist criminal-justice policies, crime increases. And since, again, most crime is black-on-black, black Americans get hurt disproportionately. As Professor Michael Shellenberger, a policy expert, related in 2022: After the 2020 anti-police agitation,

homicide rates rose 34% for black Americans and 19% percent for whites. “This translated into 8 additional black deaths per 100,000 people … while the death rate for whites rose by only 0.5 per 100,000.”

A relevant tweet is below, while Shellenberger’s entire thread on the subject is here.

Speaking of murder brings us to something Republicans traditionally fight or seek to limit: abortion. In fact, it was Trump-nominated, and GOP-Senate confirmed, Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe v. Wade. In contrast, Democrats are now aggressively pro-prenatal infanticide. Abortion also is, do note, another evil that claims black lives disproportionately. Why, while black Americans constitute just 13 percent of the population, approximately 38–42 percent of aborted babies are black.

Who Is Waging a “War on Blacks”?

All this said, there’s infinitely more to say. A book could be written contrasting the many ways in which left-wing policies harm black America (e.g., incentivizing fatherlessness) and conservative policies help black America. A prime example is “Democrats’ War on Blacks,” through which they peddle vice disguised as racial liberation.

Anyway, to conclude, it’s no wonder Vice President J.D. Vance said recently that BLM should “celebrate” Trump. Note, too, that there was a time when liberal black activists did just that. See the below.

Yes, that was race-hustler Jesse Jackson in 1999, praising Donald Trump for a lifetime spent helping the black community and minorities generally. My, what a difference a millennium change — and the threatening of Democratic power by entering politics — can make.

                   This article was originally published at The New American.