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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Aug 23, 2017, 08:43 AM Aug 2017

Trump a 'Moral Dilemma' for Black Republicans After Charlottesville

By YAMICHE ALCINDOR AUG. 22, 2017

WASHINGTON — Gregory Cheadle, the man whom Donald J. Trump famously called “my African-American” at a California campaign rally, watched this month as now-President Trump praised the “very fine people on both sides” of the deadly melee in Charlottesville, Va., and he decided that possessive word “my” was in grave danger. His backing for the president is on “life support,” he said.

Shermichael Singleton’s support has flatlined. Mr. Singleton was fired from his job as a senior adviser for the Department of Housing and Urban Development in February after previous writings critical of Mr. Trump came to light, yet he remained supportive. No more.

As the president headed to Phoenix on Tuesday to preach national unity at a campaign-style rally, even ardent supporters in the African-American community said the ties that once connected them to Mr. Trump had frayed badly.

“It’s difficult to continue to have hope for President Trump,” Mr. Singleton said. “It’s difficult to focus on complex policy issues when you have a country that is falling apart. It’s difficult to focus on health care. It’s difficult to focus on the economy. It’s difficult to focus on infrastructure when you have people who dislike other people because of their ethnicity.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/us/politics/trump-black-republicans-moral-dilemma-charlottesville.html

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Trump a 'Moral Dilemma' for Black Republicans After Charlottesville (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2017 OP
There really is no dilemma oberliner Aug 2017 #1
Bullshit! Black Republicans today are a dilemma to themselves. haveahart Aug 2017 #2
There has never been a moment in time where Trump didn't present black Republicans Mr. Ected Aug 2017 #3
Immediately Where I Went, Too ProfessorGAC Aug 2017 #4
Being black v being a black repug is a dilemma 95% of AAs solve easily... brush Aug 2017 #5

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
3. There has never been a moment in time where Trump didn't present black Republicans
Wed Aug 23, 2017, 08:48 AM
Aug 2017

With a moral dilemma.

Did it really take Charlottesville to open their eyes?

He no longer is an asset to their greedy aspirations is more like it.

brush

(53,467 posts)
5. Being black v being a black repug is a dilemma 95% of AAs solve easily...
Wed Aug 23, 2017, 09:07 AM
Aug 2017

There is nothing to even consider.

The remaining 5% take the opportunity to be "different" and join the racist, white peoples' party to see what's in it for them.

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