Donald Trump surrogate Don King, the renowned boxing promoter who was once convicted of manslaughter, gave a controversial speech early Wednesday morning at a Cleveland Heights church meeting, where he invoked the n-word in front of an audience of pastors.
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“I love Israel and I love the Jewish people”, King told the Jerusalem Post in 2008, adding that African Americans “should try to emulate and imitate the saga of the Jewish struggle”.
Talking about the need for African-American success, King recalled a conversation he once had with Michael Jackson about being poor.
“If you’re poor, you’re a poor negro, I’d use the n-word”.
“If you are a dancing and sliding and gliding [N-word], I meant negro, you’re a dancing and sliding and gliding negro”. Trump said 40-year-old Terence Crutcher, who was killed in Friday’s Tulsa, Oklahoma, shooting, “looked like he did everything you’re supposed to do”. If you are a dancing and sliding and gliding n*gger… “So you’re going to be a negro til you die”.
Within minutes of taking the stage to endorse Donald Trump, boxing promoter Don King dropped the N-word at an African-American church in Ohio. “I’m sending condolences and prayers to the families, and I know a lot of you are, too”, Clinton said. “If you’re intelligent and intellectual, you’re an intelligent and intellectual Negro”.
As former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Digital Director Brandon English pointed out on Twitter, Cleveland Heights is 42 percent black, so it couldn’t have been that hard to find black audience members for a town hall on “African American Concerns”.
King definitely didn’t assist in gaining black votes after his insensitive comment, and to make matters worse, Trump, the biggest bigot of them all, sat back smiling as he listened to King offend his own race. “I don’t know what she was thinking but I’m very, very troubled by that”, Trump said about Betty Shelby, the white Tulsa police officer who fatally shot Crutcher.
King’s slur invoked very different reactions from Trump and his white advisors on one hand, and people in attendance on the other. “That was so special”, he said of King’s remarks. Polls from Bloomberg and CNN have Trump leading by as much as 5 percentage points, while a CBS News Poll has Clinton leading by a whopping 7 percentage points.
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“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.
