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Are Blacks at White House In Over Their Heads?

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Are Blacks at White House In Over Their Heads? (Posted 1/30/2018)

What’s your view of Donald Trump’s system of politics and government?  On the other hand, what does Trump know, or care, about American Blacks’ needs and/or political priorities?

What’ the level of communications between Trump and Blacks?   In 2016, candidate Donald Trump declared that if he became president, “at the end of four years, I guarantee you that I will get over 95 percent of the African American vote.   He was elected with just 8 percent of the Black vote, Trump recently tweed that his “approval ratings with Blacks has doubled.” Actually, President Trump has a 4 percent approval rating among black voters and, according to Gallup, has tumbled from 15 percent approval among black voters a year ago to 6 percent.

How has the US economy performed in 12 months of the Trump era?  Actually, Trump has reason to boast regarding the economy and rising stock market valuations – S&P 500 index is up around 22 per cent that equates to an increase of around $4 trillion.  Trump also justly claims to have boosted US employment through his exhortations for manufacturers to repatriate off-shored jobs to American soil.  Since he won the vote, the US economy has added an average of 167,000 new jobs each month and the unemployment rate has dipped to just 4.1 per cent.

So, who’s talking favorably to Blacks about Trump?  Trump has a perfectly respectable job-creation record, but who’s telling Blacks that?  Cleveland pastor Rev. Darrell Scott was at Donald Trump’s White House meeting to sign legislation re-designating the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site to the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Park.  Pastor Scott is the “head man” in the circle of Blacks supporting Trump and his agenda as CEO of the National Diversity Coalition for Trump.  He is a co-founder, along with Trump’s campaign spokesperson  Michael Dean Cohen and board member of the National Diversity Coalition for Trump.  The National Diversity Coalition was formed to provide specific minority groups’ support for candidate Donald Trump. Bruce LeVell, also a co-founder, was a contender for appointment to head the Small Business Administration.

The guy that created the group is a Jewish lawyer, Michael Dean Cohen.  Cohen was in Trump’s business operations as an Executive Vice-President, co-president of Trump Entertainment and member of the board of the Eric Trump Foundation.  Cohen set the bar for tolerating Trump’s idiosyncrasies in his defenses of Trump against charges of anti-Semitism.

Pastor Scott met Donald Trump in 2011 after being invited to a meeting at Trump Tower, when Trump was considering the run. ed his candidacy, Scott was one of the first African-American pastors to support him and was instrumental in getting other African-American pastors to attend meetings.  Minister Alveda Celeste King, a member of the King Family, is on the Coalition’s board.  The Cheeto-in-Chief’s” diversity group contains American-Muslims for Trump, African-American Pastors for Trump, and Korean-Americans for Trump.

The infamous “Omarosa” was once a member of the group and will go down in history as being ineffective enough in her outreach to blacks to drive their support to zero.  With Omarosa gone from microphones, we ask LeVell: What have you got to lose ceasing defense of bigoted Trump acts?  During the campaign Bruce etched out a profile and position proclaiming that “Donald Trump is not a racist,”   As the Coalition’s Executive Director LeVell has elected to spend his time declaring Trump is not racist, instead of showing him strategies that can help blacks and convert their business and political thinking.

William Reed is publisher of “Who’s Who in Black Corporate America” and available for projects via Busxchng@his.com

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