80 Percent of Blacks Think Trump is Racist, the Other 20 percent Are Lying

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Every so often you see a poll, and say, “Well, duh.” The Washington Post/Ipsos poll of African American voters is one such poll. The survey found that 80 percent of African Americans considered Trump to be racist and were pessimistic about the future and race relations. What’s surprising was that about 20 percent of those surveyed didn’t share this view. However, the rise of Trump has shown that there are wide swaths of this country who are aggressively ignorant, don’t read and easily swayed by propaganda. Unfortunately, some black people fall into that group.

I used to be friends with an intelligent older, black man, who possessed a law degree and an MBA. But I ended the friendship in 2016 because he was a Trump supporter. I pointed out that Trump was a racist and his views were driving traffic to white supremacist websites. (ProPublica reported that the Daily Stormer, home to some of the vilest racial content online, saw a 30 percent increase in traffic in 2016.) His response was these were stories made up by the news…