King was talking about what it’s like to be black in America as he introduced the Republican presidential nominee at an event in Cleveland organised by Darrell Scott, a prominent black pastor. I told Michael Jackson, if you are poor, you are a poor negro.
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Delivering a freewheeling and at times weird speech at a campaign event at New Spirit Revival Center, King made the case for why the African-American community should vote for the NY real estate mogul in November.
King was hardly the picture of political correctness, as one might expect at a Trump event.
Hillary Clinton’s communications director says the candidate is preparing for the “different Trumps” that could show up at the first debate.
Warily eying King, Manigault advised King take a seat, but the boxing promoter declined. “So do not alienate because you can not assimilate”. If you are an intellectual, you are intellectual negro.
King’s support of Trump is a bit of a surprise – because he’s been a big fan of Hillary Clinton.
“The system is corrupt, the device is rigged, the gadget is sexist, the device is racist”, King stated, arguing that Trump might deliver the united states “back to inclusiveness”. “They’re going like high”, he said Tuesday night. Although it was billed as a gathering on Midwest Values and Vision, all of the talk was by or about Donald Trump. “And people of color don’t have their rights”, said King. “But if you’re a rich, you’re a rich negro, if you are intelligent, you’re an intellectual negro”. “But to me he looked like somebody that was doing what they were asking them to do”.
Even before King’s unforced error, Trump’s campaign has already been packed with racial controversy.
The New York billionaire then falsely suggested violence in Chicago is worse than that of Afghanistan, and endorsed a policing method that a federal judge said New York City had used unconstitutionally because of its overwhelming impact on minority residents.
Running mate Mike Pence, Ben Carson and Clevelander Don King were all in attendance.
King, who was convicted of manslaughter for kicking a man to death in 1966, didn’t speak at the Republican National Convention in King’s native Cleveland in July.
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Betts, a distributor of hair products, said he is registered to vote as an independent and that he attended the town hall because he was curious about what Trump would say to try to win over black voters. Trump’s outreach has also been viewed cynically as an attempt by his campaign to soothe concerns among more moderate, suburban voters.
