DONALD TRUMP’s support among African Americans hovers in the single digits, with recent polls in Ohio and Pennsylvania putting it at 0%. On the first night of the Republican convention, several black men took to the stage to try to improve Mr Trump’s standing among African Americans. One speaker, David Clarke, a sheriff from Wisconsin, cited Martin Luther King, lamented the “collapse of the social order” and tweaked a popular rallying cry for racial justice to stand up for fallen police officers. “Blue lives matter in America”, he declared to a roaring crowd.
The Democratic convention addressed the roiling issue of the victims and perpetrators of police shootings, with a moment of silence for police who died in the Baton Rouge and Dallas attacks and several mentions of the phrase “black lives matter”. In her acceptance speech, Hillary Clinton did not use those words, exactly, but did ask her supporters to put themselves “in the shoes of young black and Latino men and women who face the effects of systemic racism, and are made to feel like their lives are disposable”. Lest she be accused of devaluing...Continue reading
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