African Americans worry Trump has awoken a resentment that won’t go away
By Robert Samuels September 15 at 7:31 PM
JACKSON, Miss. — The man who might be president came to this city last week and Priscilla Sterling could barely stomach that he was still in the race, much less in her home town. When she saw the clips on television, she saw throngs of white people wearing “Build That Wall” T-shirts in a state where the Confederate emblem is still etched into its flag.
With them came Donald Trump, with his latest campaign chief, this one with ties to the white nationalist movement, pitching voters on a newfound notion that he could be a savior for African American communities. All of it together — the rallies and rhetoric, the echoes of oppression — rekindled fears for Sterling that Trump was excavating the racist vestiges of the Old South.
“There’s just been something in the atmosphere,” Sterling said recently, as she drove through block after block of unemployed men and women sitting on the front porches of dingy homes with sunken roofs in one of this city’s oldest black neighborhoods.
Trump has said that he does not want the votes of white supremacists. He will undertake his most direct appeal to black voters — and whites looking for comfort that he is not a racist — on Saturday when he tours Detroit with his most prominent African American surrogate, Ben Carson. Those efforts started to gain steam here in Jackson, where Trump said at a rally last week that the lives of black Americans were so impoverished and crime-stricken that they had nothing to lose by voting for him.
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"He just needs to come out and apologize and this whole birther thing will blow over."
It won't blow over because it's obvious he's never been sincere about apologizing or trying to undo, or even acknowledge, the damage he's done. His latest attempt at putting it to rest is an insult to voters.
And when you add in all the other stuff – white supremacist campaign hires, retweets, rallies – there's overwhelming evidence that the only thing he's sincere about is the fact that he's racist.
