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Keith Boykin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Just because one Black person at a fast food restaurant says nice things about Donald Trump, that doesn\u2019t mean that the rest of Black people support him<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Keith Boykin, Word In Black<\/p>\n

Guest Column<\/p>\n

Years ago, when I worked for President Clinton, activists would often call me to complain about the administration\u2019s policies. But when the same activists were invited to meet the President at the White House, the tone of their objections inevitably changed when they spoke to him in person.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s something about proximity to power and celebrity that makes people much more polite when they\u2019re in the presence of powerful people than when they\u2019re not.<\/p>\n

We need to stop grading Donald Trump on a curve.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the best possible explanation I can come up with for the reaction of Chick-fil-A workers and customers when Donald Trump stopped at one of the company\u2019s restaurants in Atlanta today. \u201cI don\u2019t care what the media tells you,\u00a0Mr. Trump, we support you<\/a>,\u201d one Black woman told him.<\/p>\n

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It could be that the\u00a0twice-impeached<\/a>,\u00a0quadruple-indicted<\/a>\u00a0presidential candidate just happened to meet the few Black people in Atlanta who support him all at the same place at the same time. Or it could be they were just being polite. Either way, it\u2019s not representative of the Black community in Atlanta, in Georgia, or the rest of the country.<\/p>\n

We need to stop grading Donald Trump on a curve. Just because one Black person at a fast food restaurant says nice things about him, that doesn\u2019t mean that the rest of Black people support him. But expectations are so low for Trump and Republicans that just going to a fast food spot and speaking to a handful of Black people is considered remarkable African American outreach.<\/p>\n

The truth is that Black people are the one demographic group most opposed to Trump\u2019s presidential campaign. But in America, Black people carry an unfair burden of representation so that the actions of any one Black person, however unrepresentative, can and will be used against us.<\/p>\n

The irony is that the comment at Chick-fil-A came from a Black woman, and Black women \u2014 notwithstanding Candace Owens \u2014 are the\u00a0least<\/em>\u00a0supportive demographic group of Donald Trump.\u00a0Ninety percent<\/a>\u00a0of Black women voted for Joe Biden in 2020, and\u00a094 percent voted for Hillary Clinton<\/a>\u00a0in 2016. Only four percent of Black women supported Trump in his race against Clinton.<\/p>\n

In the state of Georgia,\u00a0 percent\u00a0of Black women voted for Biden, and only seven percent voted for Trump.<\/p>\n

Black women\u2019s opposition to Trump is understandable. Trump, after all, appointed the three right-wing Supreme Court Justices who\u00a0killed affirmative action<\/a>\u00a0in college admissions in 2023 and\u00a0overturned Roe v. Wade<\/a>\u00a0in 2022. And when Black women created a\u00a0private<\/em>\u00a0\u201cFearless Fund<\/a>\u201d to help other Black women start businesses, it was two\u00a0Trump-appointed federal judges<\/a>\u00a0who struck it down.<\/p>\n

After spending\u00a0five and a half years<\/a>\u00a0spreading unfounded rumors about the first Black president\u2019s birth certificate, Trump came into office in 2017 and\u00a0tried unsuccessfully to repeal Obamacare<\/a>, a popular program that helped\u00a0nearly three million Black Americans<\/a>\u00a0obtain health insurance coverage from 2011 to 2019.<\/p>\n

When Democrats tried to expand Medicaid coverage, a state-run program that disproportionately helps Black people, Trump and the Republicans tried to block that as well, even though\u00a015 million African Americans<\/a>\u00a0were enrolled in Medicaid.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as President Biden has\u00a0canceled $146 billion of student loan debt<\/a>\u00a0for more than four million borrowers, Trump\u2019s Republican colleagues have\u00a0gone to court<\/a>\u00a0to try to block this financial lifeline that disproportionately helps young Black people.<\/p>\n

When Democrats tried to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, it was Trump and his Black Republican friend,\u00a0Senator Tim Scott<\/a>, who\u00a0killed the bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When Democrats tried to pass the much-needed John Lewis Voting Rights Act, it was Trump\u2019s\u00a0Senate Republican co-conspirators in Congress<\/a>\u00a0who blocked it.<\/p>\n

Moreover, Trump has spent the past five years attacking the nation\u2019s most prominent Black women, including former First Lady\u00a0Michelle Obama<\/a>, Vice President\u00a0Kamala Harris<\/a>, Supreme Court Justice\u00a0Ketanji Brown Jackson<\/a>, New York Attorney General\u00a0Letitia James<\/a>, Representatives\u00a0Maxine Waters<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Ilhan Omar<\/a>, and journalists\u00a0Yamiche Alcindor<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0April Ryan<\/a>. Not to mention, he\u2019s been launching vicious personal attacks against Fulton County District Attorney\u00a0Fani Willis<\/a>\u00a0in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

If nothing else, Trump is a relentless salesman. The guy who\u2019s trying to hawk\u00a0$400 gold sneakers<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0$60 Bibles<\/a>\u00a0is now using his celebrity to sell himself to white people by pretending to be a friend of Black people so white people won\u2019t feel so guilty about supporting him after\u00a0decades of racism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But Black people can see right through his desperate strategy. Just because he said hello to some Black people at a chicken joint doesn\u2019t make him Colonel Sanders. It makes him the panderer-in-chief.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack Vote, Black Power,\u201d<\/em><\/a>\u00a0a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black, examines the issues, the candidates, and what\u2019s at stake for Black America in the 2024 presidential election.<\/em><\/p>\n

Keith Boykin\u00a0is a\u00a0New York Times\u2013bestselling author, TV and film producer, and former CNN political commentator. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, Keith served in the White House, cofounded the National Black Justice Coalition, cohosted the BET talk show\u00a0My Two Cents, and taught at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York. He\u2019s a Lambda Literary Award\u2013winning author and editor of seven books. He lives in Los Angeles.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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