[POLITICO] Donald Trump declared on Tuesday night that the Democratic Party had "failed and betrayed" black voters. But the civil rights hustler Al Sharpton...Tawana Brawley's spiritual advisor...
and other liberal black leaders are saying it’s Trump who’s full of false promises.
"If he cares about black voters, he certainly has shown a complete disregard and disrespect for addressing them and their issues," Sharpton told POLITICO in a phone interview Wednesday afternoon. "I don’t know what’s in his head, but I know where his body has been. And it’s been absent in terms of black concerns and black people and black audiences throughout his campaign."
While a shakeup of Trump's campaign on Wednesday largely overshadowed his apparent attempt to improve his meager standing among African-American voters, Sharpton and others said his effort was no overture to African-Americans anyway.
Sharpton, who has endorsed
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Another Dean Acheson...
, noted that Trump delivered remarks "with hardly no blacks in the audience" during his late-night rally in West Bend, Wisconsin, where he blamed Clinton for poverty and crime in America’s inner cities, called for more police on the streets and vowed to appoint the nation’s top prosecutors and judges and to increase enforcement of federal laws.
"To put more police out there without changing policing and without dealing with the issues is to increase the tension and increase of potential problems, not decrease," said Sharpton, who called Trump’s rhetoric on policing the "antithesis" of what should be done. "So either he has no understanding of the issue or he’s taking an absolute, adversarial position to where the country’s moving, or a combination of both."
| Time.com has Mr. Trump's entire speech here. Read it and judge for yourself, dear Reader. |