Trump goes to a white rural town, and in front of an all white audience, reads a speech to the cameras telling black people to vote for him.
— Mat Johnson (@mat_johnson) August 17, 2016
So Donald Trump gave a speech on race tonight. I’ll pause here so you can grab a drink.
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And it went exactly like you imagined it would:
Donald Trump made a new and explicit plea for the support of black voters on Tuesday, saying the Democratic Party had “failed and betrayed” them and accusing Hillary Clinton of “bigotry” in the pursuit of minority voters.
“We reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton which panders to and talks down to communities of color and sees them only as votes — that’s all they care about — not as individual human beings worthy of a better future,” Trump said at a rally in Wisconsin.
After Republican Party leaders have urged Trump for months to rein in unpredictable tangents on the stump that have gotten him in repeated political trouble, Trump used a teleprompter at a campaign rally for the first time on Tuesday to deliver a speech that waded into the thorny topics of race and politics.
“The Democratic Party has failed and betrayed the African-American community,” Trump declared.
“The Democratic Party has taken the votes of African-Americans for granted. They’ve just assumed they’ll get your support and done nothing in return for it. They’ve taken advantage of the African-American citizen,” he added. “It’s time to give the Democrats some competition for these votes.”
So far, Trump has struggled to connect with black voters, receiving as low as 0 percent and 1 percent of African-American support in some polls. (Though given the margin of error, his support could be slightly higher.)
Black people are the Democratic party. The Democratic party’s core is African Americans. Saying democrats have failed African Americans is basically calling them self-loathing at this point. I’m going to propose we stop having national conversations about race until February 2017. And then, when we have them, have them in areas that are not 96% white.
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