Corey Lewandowski: Trump avoids speaking to black voters because he’s not safe in their communities

[KamaAina]

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/corey-lewandowski-trump-avoids-speaking-to-black-voters-because-hes-not-safe-in-their-communities/

In what has become a seemingly endless series of CNN panels arguing over GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s awkward play for black votes, former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski tried out a new — and possibly more insulting spin — on Trump’s avoidance of black voters....

Lewandowski was part of a panel Monday night hosted by Anderson Cooper when he was asked why Trump doesn’t appeal to black voter by actually meeting with them instead of talking about them in front of predominately white audiences.

“You know what’s amazing to me is that no one remembers Donald Trump went to go have a rally in Chicago at the university. And remember what happened?” Lewandowski began. “It was so chaotic and it was so out-of-control that the Secret Service and the Chicago Police Department told him you cannot get in and out of the facility safely. And that rally was cancelled.”

“Look!” Lewandowski shot back. “That is a black community. He went to the heart of Chicago to give a speech to the University of Chicago in a campus that is predominately African-American to make that argument. And you know what happened? The campus was overrun and it was not a safe environment.”

Earth to Corey. Come in, Corey. UIC's student body is a whopping 8 percent African American.

[kimbutgar]

1. So suit wearing church going black people at the NAACP annual meeting were threatening?

To Cheeto!

[msanthrope]

2. "The campus was overrun?" By what? nt

[world wide wally]

7. Students, I assume

[msanthrope]

8. Kinda my point.....it's pretty racist to describe a place where

students have the right to be as overrrun.

[world wide wally]

10. It's the "Trumpian" thing to do

[Aviation Pro]

3. Fucking coward is...

...as fucking coward does.

Fuck this clown.

[whatthehey]

4. Well in fairness neither the potential danger nor the perception of it were unilateral.

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/cancel-trumps-rally-at?source=c.tw&r_by=14230783

[Angry Dragon]

5. He is still a Trump hemorrhoid

using the same source as is used to show Trump leading

[spanone]

9. so.... i guess trump would only be President for the white folks.

[bluesbassman]

11. Hard to run from danger with those pesky bone spurs in his heel.

The man is an absolute joke, and not a funny one.

[Peregrine Took]

12. Idiot. It was at University of Illinois not University of Chicago which is a private school.

Plus neither of them are "predominantly AA." Not even close.

There was a fracas at the U of I that Friday night he was supposed to have his stupid rally as the campus is not too far from Pilsen which is a Hispanic neighborhood and he had been making all those vile comments about the "wall" at that time so people wanted to confront him about what he was saying.

[alcibiades_mystery]

18. We call it UIC, not U of I

The rally was at the UIC Pavilion, which is on Racine just south of the highway. It is not a predominantly black community. Indeed, it's just steps from Chicago's Little Italy, for Christ's sake. The area of the rally is probably majority white; a few blocks west of there is really wealthy, too.

[MinM]

13. Here's a guy that wasn't afraid...

Wasn't afraid to speak in black communities, during the riots, and breaking the news of the MLK assassination...

April 4, 1968: How RFK saved Indianapolis

...Mary Evans, a 16-year-old junior at North Central High School, was in the crowd. She was headstrong and political, and she insisted on seeing Kennedy. She and a friend attended the rally with the friend's nervous father.

Evans was white and from a tony Northside family, but she was progressive and inquisitive and was not uncomfortable in the mostly black crowd. At first.

But as she waited for Kennedy, who was more than an hour late, word suddenly spread that King had been shot. The word was that he had survived after a gunman had tried to kill him. The gunman was presumed to be white.

"The temperature changed," Evans recalls. "I felt people started looking at me. Someone would take a step away, like I was a symbol of racism.

"I felt really white. I was really scared."

She thought about bolting but was in unfamiliar territory and had no idea which way to run...

[font color=blue]"It was like the feeling some people get in church," she says. "I was scared, and as soon as Kennedy spoke, I wasn't scared. I no longer felt white and isolated. I felt united in sadness with everyone else."[/font] ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016119172

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017256527

[JI7]

14. this shows how racist this country is

People talk like this all the time and it's just seen as ok and normal.

[alcibiades_mystery]

19. That was my thought, too

Many white folks will say the same thing about perfectly safe majority black neighborhoods.

[Thrill]

15. I'm convinced guys like Cory have never had

Black friend. Or associated with black people much at all. It's sad

[Jeffersons Ghost]

16. K&R

[uponit7771]

17. Sigh

[JI7]

20. isn't lewdanowsky the one that got violent with a woman ?

[KelleyKramer]

21. Wow! ...

They don't even try to hide the racism

Ok, there you have it

[whistler162]

22. So scared he can't even go to the church thaty supports him!

http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2016/08/entire-black-church-endorses-donald-trump-for-president/