Blacks question Trump outreach delivered to white audiences
Source: MSN/Associated Press
AKRON, Ohio Black Republicans cheer Donald Trump for a newfound outreach to African-Americans, but say the GOP presidential nominee must take his message beyond arenas filled with white supporters and venture into the inner cities.
Many rank-and-file black voters, meanwhile, dismiss the overtures as another racially charged pitch from a campaign aimed exclusively at whites, from Trump's emphasis on "law and order" to his withering critiques of President Barack Obama, the nation's first black chief executive. It was Trump in 2011 who fiercely challenged Obama's U.S. birth.
"Any minority who would vote for him is crazy, ought to have their head examined," said Ike Jenkins, an 81-year-old retired business owner in the predominantly black suburb of East Cleveland.
Foluke Bennett, a 43-year-old from Philadelphia, went further, labeling the GOP standard-bearer's remarks as "racist," pointing, among other things, to his referencing African-Americans as "the blacks."
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It is nice that the print media is noting that Trump's so-called pivot to address minority voters is still being conducted largely away from any minorities.
Tempest
(14,591 posts)Racism and talk of religious war: Trump staff's online posts
https://www.apnews.com/d98c99e8626549d984d3695ac6ef589f/Racism-and-talk-of-religious-war:-Trump-staff's-online-posts
rivegauche
(601 posts)His statements about "what have you got to lose?" by voting for him were unbelievably offensive. He OBVIOUSLY doesn't care at all about black Americans or any minorities. And that statement says that he thinks black Americans have nothing to begin with, so they have nothing to lose. It is DISGUSTING, vile, ignorant and idiotic. And voters are a hell of a lot smarter than he is and can see right through his orange bullshit haze. My hatred of that piece of shit grows by the hour.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Like just about every other republican voter, they tend to not be very bright.
rivegauche
(601 posts)I resist categorizing all 8 of them that way. (sarcasm!) Black and other minorities who identify as conservatives, in my experience, are about social and economic issues. They want a person of faith (Xtian, of course) and they are concerned about the national debt, and they're anti-abortion. I have some conservative Hispanic neighbors, for example, who have voted Repub in the past but they despise Trump, and they've told me that they won't vote this year for the first time.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Person 2713
(3,263 posts)vote for Trump. If he even had repub AA thinking of votingTrump he has actually probably lost some of them with this BS
hibbing
(10,095 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)That is all.