“With Trump, there is nothing there substantively because of his own history that would tell me that I would have something to gain with him,” he said. “That’s been proven time and time again as you listen to him talk to Black people as if they’re not there.”
Trump’s narrative is that “he thinks so little of the Black community that he can get our vote with giving us greater access to menthol cigarettes and a nice pair of gold lamé sneakers,” Steele explained.“Nothing about health disparities in Black neighborhoods. Nothing about the education disparities in Black neighborhoods,” Steele noted. “Nothing about the mortality rate among Black women and babies. Nothing about fair housing.
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