Donald Trump’s top African American adviser apologized Monday after tweeting a cartoon of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in blackface amid the Republican presidential nominee’s push to secure minority votes.
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The tweet showed a cartoon Clinton in blackface, wearing a T-shirt that says “no hot sauce, no peace”, holding an anti-police sign, and saying, “I ain’t no ways exhausted of pandering to African Americans”.
Burns has since deleted that tweet, but not before news of it spread quickly.
The cartoon depicted Clinton in blackface, saying “I ain’t no ways exhausted of pandering to African-Americans”. It was showing how Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party panders after the black vote.
In it, she is also wearing a shirt that says, “No hot sauce no peace!”
“I ain’t no ways pandering to African Americans”, the cartoon image says.
Burns – a frequent warm-up act for Trump – at first said he did no wrong. “She does pander, and the policies are not good for African Americans”.
Burns’ tweet comes after the candidates traded accusations of bigotry last week. As the Democratic presidential nominee seeks to undercut Trump’s economic record and promote her plans for small businesses, she is invoking memories of her late father’s Chicago drapery business.
At issue is one of Trump’s main campaign promises, to deport every immigrant who is here illegally and require them to reapply for citizenship from their home countries, through legal channels. Trump will visit Great Faith Ministries Church in inner-city Detroit and will participate in a televised interview with the Bishop Wayne T. Jackson to air on his religious-themed Impact Television Network. I love people, I’m a pastor, my job is to love and bring people together, but I’m not apologizing for the message.
“I am a black man, I am speaking from the perspective of a black American man who lives in a society where we are at the bottom of the totem pole and yet we are still voting en masse for the same policies that are keeping us here”, Burns said.
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In Atlanta Monday night, supporters defended Donald Trump.
