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Jorge Pérez has spoken out against Trump's plans to build a wall, saying it would be immoral. Trump and Pérez are former business partners, both working in real estate. Pérez is, of course, an immigrant himself. He fled Cuba as a child. He made his fortune investing in the Miami skyline (which is kind of ugly), and he rebounded from losing a billion dollars just like Trump.
From the WSJ article:
In mid-December, Mr. Pérez received an email from Mr. Trump, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, with an attachment showing a photo of a border fence near San Diego. On the photo was a message written in uppercase: “Any interest in building a 2,000 mile wall—30’ high—between U.S.A. and Mexico? Call me.”
Few entrepreneurs who have disagreed with Mr. Trump have as rich a history with the president as Mr. Pérez. The two have been friends for more than a decade, and Mr. Pérez’s company developed a Trump-branded condo project in Hollywood, Fla., and was involved with Mr. Trump in real-estate deals in Sunny Isles Beach and West Palm Beach, Fla., in Mexico and in South America. Both men have discussed their friendship in interviews and public statements.
“The one person who could teach me something about real estate is Jorge Pérez,” Mr. Trump wrote in the foreword to Mr. Pérez’s 2008 real-estate how-to book, Powerhouse Principles. “He dares to dream, and he makes those dreams real. The result has changed lives, and cities.”
My opposition to the wall is holistic. There's not any one aspect that I find especially offensive. But taken together, the downsides are too strong in number. It's a one-dimensional answer to a multi-dimensional problem. It's excessive and blunt when we need subtlety and precision.
I disagree with the symbolism of building a 30-foot wall across 2,000 miles of land. Here on Sherdog, symbolism doesn't carry much weight. Why would it? It's the currency of SJW, and its effects can't be measured in data points or monetary units. We prefer charts that show us how many people were killed by blacks or Muslims, how many jobs were lost or gained in a given year, raw data that we can react to emotionally without context. However, symbolism matters.
A massive wall along the border sends a clear message of aggression to the citizens of the U.S. and Mexico. I'd hazard to guess that such a message will only lead to weakened race relations, higher levels of paranoia, increased anxiety, and more social turmoil across the board.
Obama was bad for race relations because he didn't talk tough on BLM and violence against men and women in blue. Trump wants to build a $30,000,000,000 wall across the entire border and the same people who criticized Obama on race relations are silent.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-frie...er-speaks-out-against-donald-trump-1487509200
From the WSJ article:
In mid-December, Mr. Pérez received an email from Mr. Trump, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, with an attachment showing a photo of a border fence near San Diego. On the photo was a message written in uppercase: “Any interest in building a 2,000 mile wall—30’ high—between U.S.A. and Mexico? Call me.”
Few entrepreneurs who have disagreed with Mr. Trump have as rich a history with the president as Mr. Pérez. The two have been friends for more than a decade, and Mr. Pérez’s company developed a Trump-branded condo project in Hollywood, Fla., and was involved with Mr. Trump in real-estate deals in Sunny Isles Beach and West Palm Beach, Fla., in Mexico and in South America. Both men have discussed their friendship in interviews and public statements.
“The one person who could teach me something about real estate is Jorge Pérez,” Mr. Trump wrote in the foreword to Mr. Pérez’s 2008 real-estate how-to book, Powerhouse Principles. “He dares to dream, and he makes those dreams real. The result has changed lives, and cities.”
My opposition to the wall is holistic. There's not any one aspect that I find especially offensive. But taken together, the downsides are too strong in number. It's a one-dimensional answer to a multi-dimensional problem. It's excessive and blunt when we need subtlety and precision.
I disagree with the symbolism of building a 30-foot wall across 2,000 miles of land. Here on Sherdog, symbolism doesn't carry much weight. Why would it? It's the currency of SJW, and its effects can't be measured in data points or monetary units. We prefer charts that show us how many people were killed by blacks or Muslims, how many jobs were lost or gained in a given year, raw data that we can react to emotionally without context. However, symbolism matters.
A massive wall along the border sends a clear message of aggression to the citizens of the U.S. and Mexico. I'd hazard to guess that such a message will only lead to weakened race relations, higher levels of paranoia, increased anxiety, and more social turmoil across the board.
Obama was bad for race relations because he didn't talk tough on BLM and violence against men and women in blue. Trump wants to build a $30,000,000,000 wall across the entire border and the same people who criticized Obama on race relations are silent.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-frie...er-speaks-out-against-donald-trump-1487509200
