Donald Trump has run afoul of the fact-checkers once again. Speaking in North Carolina, the Republican nominee claimed African-American communities “are absolutely in the worst shape that they’ve ever been in before, ever, ever, ever.”
Considering Trump’s Southern venue, one might conclude that this was at least a bit hyperbolic. After all, black American history has included slavery, the Fugitive Slave Act, the marauding of the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow, among other injustices and indignities.
It’s the latest Trump paradox. He has begun to do the kind of minority outreach promoted by Republicans from Jack Kemp to Rand Paul yet he retains a tin ear on race. He was berated by the Congressional Black Caucus for declining to apologize for his “birther” advocacy against Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the United States.
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