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In reply to the discussion: So Colin Kaepernick endorsed Trump? [View all]Mc Mike
(9,261 posts)To me, he was just a famous guy I didn't know, and he took a high profile "stand" that he got undeserved heat for. I didn't bother looking up where he was coming from, higher or lower income, urban, rural, suburban, what college, what team, what major, etc. I don't know his sports records. I supported his stand online, and gave it a couple of recs here.
You can graduate college and not be very politically aware. But it's axiomatic that there is no strata of society among Black Americans where people are backing tRUmp, holding their head up high, and being out in the open about it, hanging around a big segregated crowd and fitting in. 0 -7 % support for tRump means a supporter is an anomaly, everywhere you go. Only a few apprentices, business people, and religious business people support him, and they don't have enough clout to put any Color in the tRump audiences. Nobody but a shill wants a pic or video of themselves with tRump, so he can't get people of color to sit behind him at events. (Me sit behind tRump? Sorry, I think I left the gas on at home.) It was interesting when the tRump FL campaign head Karen Giorno let the tRump African American outreach head Sean Jackson get kicked out of the rally by security, because he's Black. The incident seems like something that would make a person sit up and take notice, if it's somebody who's concerned about politics and Race issues.
The conflation of the 2 candidates is a false equivalency. Sec Clinton's not dishonest about anything that she's been investigated about, and she's been investigated a whole big bunch. tRump leaves a constant trail of criminal slime indictments everywhere he goes, a ton of them are outstanding and unresolved, new ones are popping up. His campaign slogan should be "I'm Not In Jail Yet!"
And he has a huge record of constant lies, an easily documentable record. So he's super dishonest both ways. Maybe Mr. K doesn't know a lot politically, he's not following the political news like some people don't follow sports. Maybe he just sees the tons of high-profile police misconduct cases, and missed that part where tRump said he was "going to let Chicago top cops off the leash to clean up the neighborhoods chop chop," because suspects (civilians) have too many rights.