Sharpton trashes Trump’s message for black voters
Having Big Al comment on race politics is only slightly less weird than soliciting the views of David Duke.
This is amusing.
DeRay Mckesson, a Black Lives Matter activist, tweeted that Trump’s speech was intended to be polarizing, summarizing his pitch to black voters as “‘rioters, robbers, looters’ are bad,” “black people are dumb democrats” and Trump isn’t Clinton.
In a phone interview with POLITICO, Mckesson said Trump has made no attempt to connect with the black community and slammed his remarks as racist, problematic and devoid of the truth.
“He was talking about black people to a non-black crowd. That was his intent,” Mckesson said.
“He was racist even in those remarks. Saying that immigrants are gonna take the jobs of black people is racist. That is a problematic and racist statement.”
What Trump has done, he continued, is create “an alternate reality and forced everybody to meet him there. He is not engaged in the act of truth telling.”
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