Pastor Mark Burns, an African-American Trump supporter, is being accused by the media of racism for posting this “racially offensive” cartoon that mocked Hillary Clinton’s racially offensive pandering to black people by depicting her in blackface.
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In addition to the black face depiction of Clinton, Burns’ tweet also said “black Americans…thanks for your votes and letting me use you again”.
“I ain’t no ways exhausted of pandering to African Americans”, she says in the cartoon.
But within hours he deleted the tweet and apologised in a video.
It shows an image of Hillary Clinton in blackface, at a time when Trump is reaching out to minority groups. “It’s a vexation to me to see how the Democratic Party, and especially Hillary Clinton, what I call tap dance for the black vote, get it and then disappear for four more years”.
Also Monday, former KKK Grand Wizard and now U.S. Senate candidate David Duke released a campaign robocall, linking himself to Trump. “I believe the black people [and] the black vote should be worked for”.
“As I said, I really think, you know, in hindsight, my methodology – if I could do it all over again, there are so many different creative ways of getting my message out there to the public”, Burns said.
“Pastor Burns’ tweet is emblematic of the hateful actions and rhetoric coming out of the Trump campaign this presidential cycle”. I am not Donald Trump.
He added that the tweet was created to highlight how the Democratic campaign was exploiting black people for their votes.
“I learned a long time ago that Hillary Clinton is a fighter and that’s what we need in our next president”, Rep. Jim Clyburn of SC, the highest-ranking African-American in Congress, said at Allen University in Columbia in February, helping Clinton ahead of the Nevada and SC contests against Bernie Sanders.
“The tweet is a frustration that I have as a black man here in America and how I see African-Americans in many cases – not every case but in many cases – are suffering throughout this country and to see how en masse we have been voting for the Democratic Party en masse and yet we have very little to show for it”, he said in a phone interview.
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Donald Trump just announced he’ll be visiting Detroit Saturday, speaking to African American-owned Christian TV network “The Impact Network”.
