I have to admit I had a rather unsettling conversation with a few actual black Trump supporters on Twitter recently.
In a sense this shouldn't be so shocking. After all, there is always that minority of black Republicans. Both these fellows, the best I could tell were organic GOPers-not those who usually vote Dem.
I can't imagine anyone really believes Donald Trump somehow would be good for black people. I suspect there may be some who think he likes black people just because he's more well known for the insulting comments he has made about Mexicans, etc.
But this narrative would have to explain why so many white nationalist groups like what they hear from Trump.
"Donald Trump earned the support of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke last year when the onetime Grand Dragon said he thinks the presidential candidate’s views are even more radical than his own. The endorsement and plea to be vice president have all been things Trump was slow to disavow, blaming an earpiece malfunction, but that hasn’t stopped the Trump campaign from bringing in a lot of white nationalist support."
"Trump’s California white nationalist delegate, William Johnson, might have pulled his name from the delegate list at the campaign’s request, but that hasn’t stopped other white nationalists from lining up to support Trump."
“[H]ere is what they don’t know: we have more delegates!” the American Freedom Party wrote on its Facebook page last week, Mother Jones reported Thursday.
"Johnson confirmed to MoJo that he has nothing to do with the AFP’s page, but did acknowledge that Robert H. DePasquale is the man behind it. The Southern Poverty Law Center lists DePasquale as the tech guy behind the KKK’s web operations. They cite DePasquale as the poster of more than 20,000 racist and anti-Semitic messages on Stormfront."
"The AFP also started a super PAC this year that has been paying for robocallsin primary and caucus states all over the country. Johnson even bragged to MoJo that he knows of at least one other KKK member who will serve as an honorary delegate for Trump, but refused to say who it was. He explained that the rest are probably flying under the radar."
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/white-nationalists-brag-that-trump-has-more-kkk-delegates-waiting-to-reveal-themselves/#.Vz3_EifcfHQ.twitter
So not only does Trump have a lot of white nationalist support, he even has a white nationalist super PAC.
Really, how naive can anyone be to think 'Gee, Trump hates us less than the Hispanics?'
This is a guy who floated the idea once of a segregated Apprentice:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/donald-trump-wanted-a-white-versus-black-season-of-the-appre?utm_term=.nh1wPAaJr#.ir3QlO1rG
Makes you paraphrase Garth Brooks: I like friends with white faces. And white sheets.
In a sense this shouldn't be so shocking. After all, there is always that minority of black Republicans. Both these fellows, the best I could tell were organic GOPers-not those who usually vote Dem.
I can't imagine anyone really believes Donald Trump somehow would be good for black people. I suspect there may be some who think he likes black people just because he's more well known for the insulting comments he has made about Mexicans, etc.
But this narrative would have to explain why so many white nationalist groups like what they hear from Trump.
"Donald Trump earned the support of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke last year when the onetime Grand Dragon said he thinks the presidential candidate’s views are even more radical than his own. The endorsement and plea to be vice president have all been things Trump was slow to disavow, blaming an earpiece malfunction, but that hasn’t stopped the Trump campaign from bringing in a lot of white nationalist support."
"Trump’s California white nationalist delegate, William Johnson, might have pulled his name from the delegate list at the campaign’s request, but that hasn’t stopped other white nationalists from lining up to support Trump."
“[H]ere is what they don’t know: we have more delegates!” the American Freedom Party wrote on its Facebook page last week, Mother Jones reported Thursday.
"Johnson confirmed to MoJo that he has nothing to do with the AFP’s page, but did acknowledge that Robert H. DePasquale is the man behind it. The Southern Poverty Law Center lists DePasquale as the tech guy behind the KKK’s web operations. They cite DePasquale as the poster of more than 20,000 racist and anti-Semitic messages on Stormfront."
"The AFP also started a super PAC this year that has been paying for robocallsin primary and caucus states all over the country. Johnson even bragged to MoJo that he knows of at least one other KKK member who will serve as an honorary delegate for Trump, but refused to say who it was. He explained that the rest are probably flying under the radar."
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/white-nationalists-brag-that-trump-has-more-kkk-delegates-waiting-to-reveal-themselves/#.Vz3_EifcfHQ.twitter
So not only does Trump have a lot of white nationalist support, he even has a white nationalist super PAC.
Really, how naive can anyone be to think 'Gee, Trump hates us less than the Hispanics?'
This is a guy who floated the idea once of a segregated Apprentice:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/donald-trump-wanted-a-white-versus-black-season-of-the-appre?utm_term=.nh1wPAaJr#.ir3QlO1rG
Makes you paraphrase Garth Brooks: I like friends with white faces. And white sheets.
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