As we noted in the post below, neo-fascist bigot Donald "Rump" Trump has been employing useful idiots and religious grifters like Mark Burns in the African-American community to fake his "outreach" to them. Whatever "outreach" is taking place is not aimed at African-Americans: it's a stunt aimed at wavering Republicans in the suburbs who don't want to overtly support a candidate who has repeatedly dealt in hate speech against minorities (dog whistles, of course, are OK). If he can con enough of them to believe that he's not a bigot, he may persuade them to vote for him in November. Yesterday, Rump sat down behind closed doors with a group of black Republican pols and grifters in Philadelphia in a patently obvious attempt to appear to be listening to their concerns (you can be certain the words "black lives matter" were not uttered in his presence).
Today, Rump is in Detroit, meeting with another pliable (and, being a Rump backer, rather odd) black minister who is "interviewing" Rump, but only after submitting questions in advance to the Rump campaign, so as to ensure a carefully canned response. This charade, after years of Rump leading the birther movement which accused the first African-American President as being a foreign-born usurper, after attacking the "Black Lives Matter" movement against targeted violence toward the black community, after receiving support from David Duke and other white supremacists, etc. When Rump does address a crowd to talk about issues affecting the black and minority community, it's in overwhelmingly white communities (West Bend, WI, Dimondale, MI, Everett, WA, etc.) So when the broken corporate press plays the game with Rump and says this is his "outreach" to African-Americans, remember his long record of stoking white resentment and white nationalism, as well as their attempts to "normalize" him.
(photo: Detroit residents protest visit of Rump to Detroit, via NBC News)
