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08-27-2016, 04:49 PM
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"Even though they had virtually no chance of upending the Democrats' advantage with black voters, past Republican presidential nominees like Sen. John McCain and Mitt Romney still went out of their way to address and reach out to historically African-American organizations. Trump, on the other hand, has stonewalled organizations like the NAACP and National Association of Black Journalists by either ignoring or turning down invitations from predominately black groups, earning the cheers of hate groups in the process.
Last November, following uproar over the beating of a Black Lives Matter protester at one of his events, Trump promoted a closed-door meeting with 100 African-American pastors from around the country, implying that they intended to endorse him."
However, a planned press conference featuring the black clergymen was scrapped when it was revealed that many of them sought to persuade Trump to soften his stances on hot-button issues. Despite at least one of the attendees calling him an "insult and an embarrassment" afterwards, Trump would later insist that there was a lot of "love in that room."
Trump has since recruited his former "Apprentice" co-star Omarosa Manigault to lead African-American outreach for his campaign, and Katrina Pierson, who is also African-American, is one of his most prominent surrogates on cable news. But, in the upper echelons of his campaign, there is very little diversity and few, if any, of Trump's top advisors are African-American."
Trump'''s History Undermines New Outreach to Black Voters - NBC News
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