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Trump suggests he has done more for Black Americans than Lincoln

2023-12-01 00:00:00.0 独立报-美国政治原网页

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Former president Donald Trump labelled himself a greater friend to Black Americans than Abraham Lincoln on Wednesday as he made his latest half-baked play for Black voters.

The ex-president was touting his endorsement from Mark Fisher, a founder of a small Black Lives Matter offshoot group in Rhode Island, in a Truth Social posting when he made the claim. It was just the latest in a long line of remarks from the former president that have betrayed a poor understanding of American history (at a minimum) while also provoking its own racist narrative — namely, that the end of slavery was inconsequential compared to Mr Trump’s presidency.

“Spoke with Mark Fisher yesterday, a great guy, very honored to have his and BLM’s support,” wrote the former president, referring to the activist group.

His post then continued: “I have done more for Black people than any other President (Lincoln?), including 10 year funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, where they had none, Opportunity Zones, Criminal Justice Reform, and much more.”

The former president’s term in the White House was punctuated with a series of incidents that illuminated major undercurrents of racism within the United States. Beginning in 2017, with the march of white nationalists through Charlottesville, Virginia, the four years of Mr Trump’s presidency also saw America’s image on the world stage wounded by revelations that the US president had labeled a number of African nations as well as Haiti in the Caribbean “s***hole countries”.

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