Former President Donald Trump has again sparked outrage with remarks he made last week about Black voters at an event in South Carolina.
The Republican presidential hopeful on Friday suggested that he could relate to the generations of racism that Black people have experienced in the U.S. legal system given the four criminal indictments brought against him. The cases have attracted more interest in his campaign among Black Americans, he argued at the Black Conservative Federation’s gala in Columbia, South Carolina, ahead of the state’s Republican primary.
Backlash followed.
“My first reaction was, ‘the caucasity of him to say that,’” Antjuan Seawright, a longtime Democratic strategist who has advised several national campaigns told theGrio. “It stems from a place of being fluent in privilege that he would even think that’s OK to say in a place like South Carolina and knowing our history with racism, bigotry and hate.”
“He is speaking to [Black voters] in 2024 with the language that some deemed appropriate to use in 1964,” Seawright said.
One day after, Trump handily defeated former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, his last-remaining opponent for the Republican nomination.
The 2024 reelection campaign for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris slammed the presumptive Republican nominee for his comments, calling him the “poster boy for modern racism.”
“This is the same man who falsely accused the Central Park 5, questioned George Floyd’s humanity, compared his own impeachment trial to being lynched, and ensured the unemployment gap for Black workers spiked during his presidency,” said Jasmine Harris, director of Black media for the Biden-Harris campaign. “Donald Trump has been showing Black Americans his true colors for years: An incompetent, anti-Black tyrant who holds us to such low regard that he publicly dined with white nationalists a week after declaring his 2024…
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