Even as Donald Trump suddenly reverse course with his campaign
and begins telling rooms full of white people why he’d make a great
President for black people, national polls say that he’s polling within
the margin of error of zero percent with African-American voters. The
Trump campaign does have minority outreach efforts, but those in charge
of it say the campaign is blowing them off. Worse, Trump’s own top black
strategist in Florida was thrown out of a Trump rally, essentially for
being black.
Sean P. Jackson is the head of the Black Republican Caucus of
Florida, and he’s also serving as a Donald Trump surrogate in the state.
He claims that the head of the Trump campaign in Florida, Karen Giorno,
has repeatedly blown off his efforts at getting the campaign to take
African-American voters seriously. In fact she apparently couldn’t even
remember what he looked like, despite his prominence within the campaign
and the numerous conversations they’d had.
When the Secret Service asked Jackson what he was doing backstage at a
Donald Trump rally, he identified himself, but none of Trump’s people
backstage could vouch for him because none of them recognized him. He
claims he asked Giorno to vouch for him, but she said she didn’t
recognize him either, so he was
escorted out under the assumption he didn’t belong.
In other words, Donald Trump’s own top campaign people in
Florida were unable to distinguish the head of the Black Republican
Caucus from any other random black guy when they saw him, so by default
he was thrown out for being black. In Jackson’s own words, the
Republican Party “has done a piss-poor job of courting the black vote
over fifty years.” Trump’s sudden token mention of black voters won’t
change that. Someone may have to break it to Sean P. Jackson that he’s
wasting his time working for a party that can’t even figure out what he
looks like, let alone bother to care about the issues he’s advocating
for.
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