Boxing promoter Don King introduced Donald Trump at a church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio this morning, inadvertently using the N-word and saying that all black people, as well as white women, in America should vote for Donald Trump. “I don’t think they want Trump to win”.
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“The white woman did not have the rights, and she still don’t have the rights”, Mr. King said.
King, 85, was introducing Trump with remarks in which it appeared he was trying to explain the nature of discrimination in the USA, when he made the unfortunate gaffe.
“I will walk with him, talk with him and plead to the people to understand that the system is the problem”, King said of Trump.
During his speech, King praised Trump as “fearless”, “courageous and brave” and said he believed Trump would “take this system apart” and “create a whole new system”.
“They told me, you got to try to imitate and emulate the white man and then you can be successful so we tried that”, King continued, before trying to explain how racism has plagued African-American community.
Taking the stage moments later, Trump called King a “phenomenal persona” and said: “Ah, there’s only one Don King”. “If you were poor, you were a poor negro”. But if you rich, you are a rich negro. “If you are dancing and sliding and gliding n–“, he said, and then chuckled, before adding, “I mean, I mean, negro”.
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“So they’re not alienatin’, because you cannot assimilate”, he said. See the excerpt from King’s speech in the video above.
