“We’re going to make our country safe again”.
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His comments came despite the fact that African-Americans in the U.S. have faced dramatically worse circumstances throughout history – from slavery to Jim Crow laws. “It matters. We’ve got to get people to vote”, Obama said.
Critics have also panned Trump’s outreach to African-Americans for painting the lives of black Americans in broad-brushed and bleak terms.
Despite his words aimed at drawing black voters to his campaign, Trump on Tuesday did not address the most police recent shooting of an unarmed African-African American man. Terence Crutcher, a 40-year-old black man, was shot by police Friday night in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The candidate, who has polled in the single digits, sometimes as low as one percent, with black voters recently took to simply asking them at rallies: “what do you have to lose?” by voting for Trump.
Trump said: “And I say to the African-American communities, and I think it’s resonating, because you see what’s happening with my poll numbers with African-Americans”.
NBC News reported that the image that Trump presents of black communities “tends to hyperbolize the black experience in America and plays into stereotypes about the experience of African-Americans in the United States that does not match the reality”. Trump made several visits to majority minority Midwestern cities in recent weeks as part of his belated effort to make inroads with this demographic group, where he told congregants at black churches that he was there to “listen”. “They’re going, like, high”.
An ABC/Washington Post poll average from August and September shows Trump increasing his support among African Americans to 5 percent.
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At the #Republican National Convention this past July, Trump was officially named the party’s nominee to challenge #Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House. “We’ve got to tackle systemic racism”, Clinton said of Terence Crutcher’s killing to Steve Harvey on his radio show.
