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Donald
Trump
suggested
that
Black
voters
“embraced”
him
due
to
his
numerous
indictments
in
a
campaign
speech
over
the
weekend
among
other
claims.
The
history
between
Donald
Trump
and
the
Black
community
is
inherently
bad
due
to
the
former
president’s
long
history
of
racist
words
and
deeds
against
them.
But
the
most
egregious
example
might
have
been
his
most
recent
speech
last
Friday
(February
23)
where
he
claimed
that
“the
Black
population”
embraced
his
mugshot
taken
in
Fulton
County,
Georgia
more
than
others.
“You
see
Black
people
walking
around
with
my
mug
shot,
you
know,
they
do
shirts,
and
they
sell
them
for
$19
apiece.
It’s
pretty
amazing
—
millions
by
the
way,”
he
said
to
the
crowd
at
the
Black
Conservative
Federation
Gala
held
in
Columbia,
South
Carolina.
Amid
a
smattering
of
faint
applause,
Trump
decided
to
continue
with
a
speech
soaked
with
so
much
racism
that
many
observers
were
shocked
and
appalled.
He
compared
his
current
situation
of
being
found
guilty
of
fraud
in
New
York
and his
pending
cases
for
allegedly
interfering
with
the
2020
presidential
election)
to
the
centuries
of
hardship
that
Black
Americans
have
dealt
with.
“I
got
indicted
a
second
time
and
a
third
time
and
a
fourth
time,
and
a
lot
of
people
said
that
that’s
why
the
Black
people
like
me,
because
they
have
been
hurt
so
badly
and
discriminated
against,
and
they
actually
viewed
me
as
I’m
being
discriminated
against,”
he
said.
Trump
would
also
go
on
to
claim
that
he
was
“being
indicted
for
you,
the
Black
population”
and
create
another
bizarre
moment
prompted
by
the
room’s
lighting:
“The
lights
are
so
bright
in
my
eyes
that
I
can’t
see
too
many
people
out
there.
But
I
can
only
see
the
Black
ones.
I
can’t
see
any
white
ones,
you
see?
That’s
how
far
I’ve
come.
That’s
how
far
I’ve
come.
That’s
a
long
—
that’s
a
long
way,
isn’t
it?
Ah,
we’ve
come
a
long
way
together.”
The
backlash
to
Trump’s
remarks
was
swift.
“It
goes
past
politics.
The
nerve
to
act
like
we
relate
to
mug
shots
—
we
all
know
mug
shots
because
the
criminal
justice
system,
in
many
cases,
wasn’t
fair
to
us,”
said
social
justice
activist
Rev.
Al
Sharpton.
Nikki
Haley,
Trump’s
opponent
in
the
primary,
also
blasted
him
over
the
remarks,
calling
them
a
“huge
warning
sign.”