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What if Trump used his voice wisely?

What if the president hadn’t spent last weekend picking an unnecessary fight with African-American professional athletes, using the most powerful voice in the world to divide the country along all-too-familiar fault lines?

What if instead he had used that voice to rally the nation to a unified purpose: helping the people of Puerto Rico — American citizens, overwhelmingly brown and black, who have been thrust into pre-modern misery by a hurricane?

If only.

Joe Distelheim

Hilton Head Island

This story was originally published September 29, 2017 at 7:51 AM with the headline "What if Trump used his voice wisely?."

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