Poltitico tells us:
The African Americans for Trump coalition will reach out to black voters with a campaign message focused on policy outcomes rather than the president’s rhetoric.
Check out the photo. Who are these people? I suspect they are paid shills.
The African Americans for Trump coalition is being organized by Katrina Pierson, senior adviser to the Trump campaign, and a few campaign staffers. The launch date is tentatively set for after Labor Day. Already the Trump campaign has rolled out two other coalitions this summer including Latinos for Trump and Women for Trump, meant to show the president’s broad support among groups beyond white men.
You may remember Katrina Pierson for her bullet necklace and her retort when she was criticized for wearing it: Trump spokeswoman wears bullet necklace on air, says 'fetus necklace' could be next.
The Republicans are losing their only African-American member of the House, Will Hurd, and the woman member of the House, Martha Roby, who was supposed to be recruiting women to run for Congress in 2020. Both announced they won’t be running again.
The Republicans currently have five women in the Senate. Percentage wise the number of GOP women in the House, 13, is even more pathetic. The Republicans have a long row to hoe on the plantation to be seen as anything but a white nationalist party which has maintained power by appealing to white, mostly male, non-college educated men. The same holds even more so for the president.
Trump of course has been pandering to black voters out of one side of his mouth while throwing red meat to every racist in the country out of the center of his manic-mouth and from his unhinged hate mongering tweets. His attempts to convince people he’s the least racist person in the world (see right) would elicit guffaws if they weren't so patently and obviously fraudulent, for example his demanding that rapper A$AP Rocky be released from a Swiss jail. Of course cozying up to the rap star Kanye West, who unlike Trump and to his credit has opened up about his mental illness is a desperate attempt ride the coattails of West’s popularity.
The Katrina Pierson Story
When you read her Wiki bio you can see that Pierson has come a long way from growing up as the child of a 15 year old mother and growing up in poverty.
Here are some highlights of her life from Wikipedia:
- Pierson was born in Kansas[2] to a white mother and a black father.[3] Her mother gave birth to her at 15 [1] and initially gave her up for adoption, but changed her mind. [3] She grew up with her mother, in poverty.[3]
- Pierson received an associate of science degree from Kilgore College.[4] In 2006, she earned a Bachelor's in biology from the University of Texas at Dallas.[5][6]
- Pierson worked for InVentiv Health in 2008; the Baylor Health Care System from July 2009 to August 2011, as a practice administrator;[7] for ASG Software Solutions, as the director of corporate affairs, from May 2011 to December 2012;[8] and then in a variety of jobs until being hired by the Trump campaign.[8][9]
- Pierson voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election,[5][10] and has listed Malcolm X as her political idol, stating that Martin Luther King, Jr. was "too moderate".[11] However, Pierson began shifting rightward because Obama did not wear an American flag on his lapel.[5] She became an activist in the Tea Party movement in 2009.
- In the 2014 Texas congressional elections, Pierson challenged incumbent congressman Pete Sessions in the Republican primary to represent Texas' 32nd district.[14][15] Her candidacy was endorsed by Rafael Cruz[16] and by Sarah Palin, who called her "a feisty fighter for freedom."[14]
- In January 2014, Pierson broadcast a campaign ad in which she quipped "President Obama says ‘I wouldn’t let my son play pro football.’[17] That’s weird. I wouldn’t let my son add $7 trillion to the national debt." The Independent Journal Review dubbed it "one of the sassiest ads ever."
I could almost feel sorry for her if she was a 23 year old whose brain, like many of the MAGA crowd that age and younger, wasn’t fully developed. (Most recent scientific debate on this.) However she is 43 and all of her neurons are fully functioning. She is making her choices and she obviously is not stupid.
She knows Trump is a racist. She has sold herself out and she, like the few other black members of Trump’s administration, is betraying the black community.
She will fail.
Once Trump looses she ought to take her place in the American People of Color Hall of Shame, would there actually be a museum on the National Mall devoted to this part of our history.