Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) this week headlined a "Black Americans for Trump" event in Atlanta that The New Republic's Talia Jane has deemed a "major bust."In her dispatch on the event, Jane notes that Trump didn't even bother to show up and instead spoke to attendees via telephone about his planned t...
  • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    How is it possible to be a member of the pre-civil-rights generation of white people and be so oblivious as to

    • DON A SHIRT that says in huge letters “Blacks for Trump”
    • Wear it in public
    • To an event ostensibly targeted to black people
    • Willingly pose for a picture wearing it with no black people in evidence except those laughing at you or giving you the side eye from a distance.