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Trump?s Black Supporters: Inside a Small and Divided World


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SOURCE: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/us/trump-black-supporters.html
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And then there are the black Republicans who believe that Mr. Trump has no interest in helping black people and are exasperated by the African-Americans who still defend him.Raynard Jackson, a veteran black political strategist and Trump supporter, said he winced during the Cohen hearings when Lynne Patton, a black member of the administration, was summoned and stood silently behind Representative Mark Meadows of North Carolina, a white, conservative congressman, to counter Mr. Cohen’s claims that the president is racist.“I was horrified,” Mr. Jackson said. The president did not give any feedback, Mr. Bernard recalled, and seemed uninterested in what he had to say.Even if a black adviser to the president wanted to effect change for black people, Mr. Bernard said, “I think you have to be willing to tell him what he needs to hear, but also accept being ignored.”The Rev. Al Sharpton, a liberal New Yorker who has known Mr. Trump for many years, used to say he did not know whether Mr. Trump was racist.“I do now,” Mr. Sharpton said this past week.Mr. Sharpton said it irked him that some of the president’s African-American allies cited his mostly “transactional relationship” with Mr. Trump as an example of why the president isn’t racist.Mr. Jackson, the veteran black political strategist, said he faulted Mr. Trump for surrounding himself with black people who told him what he wanted to hear rather than what he needed to hear, but he continues to support Mr. Trump because of his economic policies, he said.“I can huff and puff until we get a new president, or I can stay engaged and try to make a difference from the inside” of the conservative movement, Mr. Jackson said.

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