He repeats endlessly the simplistic mantra of all lives matter, as if black lives haven't historically and still don't matter less. Then there's Trump's ongoing war against Black Lives Matters, which, as he once told Bill O'Reilly on Fox News, promotes "hate" and is "looking for trouble". Trump and Clinton have some of the highest unfavourable ratings of any would-be presidential nominees in modern history. Watch and think whether Clinton could rise to the occasion in Dallas and know that nothing Trump has ever done tells us that he could, too. Yet there's no denying that Clinton has spent her professional life working to close the racial divide.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 12, 2016 22:18 UTC