We're not manipulated by fear, hate and ignorance so I don't see him polling any better in November. but more importantly, he has demonstrated PROFOUND and CONSTANT disrespect for the first African American President of the United States who is a symbol of Black Excellence, Black Legacy, and Black Struggle Realized.

Finally, Trump promotes stereotypes of blackness such as we're all poor, uneducated and live in ghettos. I have a PhD and I don't live in the ghetto even I consider myself financially poor. We have a huge wealth class which he denies. We have African American students excelling academically at dramatically greater than pre-Obama. We have a significant number of African Americans who own homes on Martha's Vineyard. We have more African Americans graduating from high school and college. We have more African Americans going into STEM. And Black Excellence is on FULL display at the Rio Olympics. Trump ignores this part of the Blackness.

Instead he pursues negatuve stereotypes of Blackness which originally targeted European Americans. [see Isenberg]

Obama phones, welfare that is supposed to be some kind of disincentive to work, etc.

This whole purported attempt to appeal to African Americans is really an attempt to appeal to weary independents, who don't want to be associated with a racist. The Trump camp is hoping this so-called AA appeal acts like the fig leaf independents need to feel ok about supporting Trump.