Why Trump's "outreach" to black voters is a complete farce (VIDEO)
Four decades ago, “the Justice Department filed a civil rights case that accused the Trump firm, whose complexes contained 14,000 apartments, of violating the Fair Housing Act of 1968.” And that racialized hostility has continued, finding a home on Trump’s Twitter feed. Sadly, because president Obama has done such a poor job as president, you won't […]
Four decades ago, “the Justice Department filed a civil rights case that accused the Trump firm, whose complexes contained 14,000 apartments, of violating the Fair Housing Act of 1968.”
And that racialized hostility has continued, finding a home on Trump’s Twitter feed.
Sadly, because president Obama has done such a poor job as president, you won't see another black president for generations!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 25, 2014
If you think @realDonaldTrump's appeal to white nationalists is something new, read this tweet from 2014. https://t.co/319sihqUQf
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) September 4, 2016
How is ABC Television allowed to have a show entitled "Blackish"? Can you imagine the furor of a show, "Whiteish"! Racism at highest level?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 1, 2014
Trump has never made himself trustworthy on racial justice issues, and now runs an openly white nationalist campaign. As many Black pundits have observed, when Trump asks people of color to vote for him with the rhetorical “What do you have to lose?” the answer is quite clearly “everything.”
Here’s why:
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