All African-American women are "low IQ", according to the absolute moron Trump as his former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson described him as he was slamming the door on his way out of the White House. Frequently labeled an idiot and a moron, (https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/04/23/idiot-trump-stumbled-through-a-three-minute-reading-thinking-no-one-would-zoom-in-they-did-and-what-they-found-was-exactly-what-you-think/), Trump has done more damage to the Republican Party than any Democrat could dream of. The GOP will never recover from the Trump era.
There is only one token African American in the 24-member Trump cabinet. Black officers of the US army have been dismissed by Trump's racist henchman Hegseth. His administration was waged war against Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI) programs that have opened doors historically shuttered for African Americans.
In November, vote your conscience, not your superficial preference for a liar, a bigot and a con man. He and his MAGA minions have done everything they can to prevent Black African Americans from voting this November. Their redistricting in several states has already curtailed Black African American representation in the next Congress. And that is not because African Americans lean Democrat; it is simply because he and his white trash Republican gangsters are racists to the bone, with KKK blood running in their veins. They'd legalize lynching if they could.
Do you really want to keep playing "Uncle Tom" for Trump and his racist cabal?
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Opinion
Trump has turned Republicans into the anti-Black party
A. Scott Bolden, opinion contributor
Sun, May 31, 2026
Led by President Trump, the Republican Party has disgracefully embraced white Christian nationalists and is working to turn back the clock on progress America has made in the struggle against racism and other bigotry.
Some 83 percent of Black voters are Democrats or lean Democratic, according to the Pew Research Center. Because of this, Trump has demanded Republican officials make it harder for African Americans to vote and elect candidates of their choosing.
Trump has successfully pressured Republican-controlled states to engage in mid-decade congressional redistricting that could enable the GOP to gain more than a dozen House seats and reduce the number of Black House members.
Redistricting approved by California voters could enable Democrats to win up to five more House seats, and a court order will likely enable Democrats to win one more House seat in Utah.
Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus, recently said that 19 of the 59 Black Democrats now in the House are in danger of losing their seats in the November elections because of Republican redistricting. In addition, none of the four Black Republicans in the House is seeking reelection. (Two are running for governor, one ran unsuccessfully for Senate, and one is retiring after the Utah court decision mentioned above redrew his seat.)
The redistricting that could reduce the number of Black House members was made possible by a historic 6-3 ruling by the Republican appointees on the Supreme Court. The ruling removed protections the 1965 Voting Rights Act gave to racial minorities in voting districts where they are a majority of the population.
The Supreme Court decision allows partisan gerrymandering of such districts as long as it is not motivated by intentional racial discrimination. But it is almost impossible to prove that redistricting is intentionally motivated by racism.
The Voting Rights Act, which removed many barriers that prevented African Americans from voting in the South, dramatically increased the number of Black officials elected to local, state and federal office. According to Sherrilyn Ifill, a Howard University law professor, there were only about 1,500 Black elected officials nationwide in 1970, but there are more than 10,000 today.
Having more African Americans in elected office makes government more understanding of and responsive to the needs of the Black community. White officials elected from jurisdictions with many Black voters also know they must represent the needs of their constituents if they hope to be reelected. This is how representative democracy is supposed to work.
Rather than splitting up Black communities into multiple congressional districts to dilute their voting power and reduce the number of African American elected officials, Republicans ought to adopt policies to attract more Black voters.
Instead, Trump and his fellow Republicans are doing all they can to win the support of white voters who resent advances African Americans have made in education, employment and elected office. As a result, Republicans have solidified their shameful and un-American status as the anti-Black party.
Trump has issued executive orders declaring DEI programs to be illegal discrimination and has succeeded in reducing the number of such programs.
The president has demanded that Congress pass legislation that would disproportionately reduce the ability of African Americans to vote and cut funding for social programs that benefit many Black people. He has fired Black federal officials, appointed only one Black person to his 24-person second-term Cabinet, and ordered federal museums and national parks to whitewash America’s ugly history of racism.
Under Trump, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has radically shifted its focus from investigating and prosecuting discrimination against people of color and women to combating supposed discrimination against white men and preventing extremely rare instances of non-citizens voting.
Trump has repeatedly insulted Black people who criticize him by calling them “low-IQ” and with other slurs about their intelligence, such as referring to then-Vice President Kamala Harris as “dumb,” “mentally unfit,” “slow” and “stupid” when she ran against him in 2024.
On top of this, Trump has said Black immigrants come to the U.S. from “s—hole countries.” And he falsely accused Black immigrants from Haiti of stealing and eating pet dogs and cats from families in Springfield, Ohio, despite denials from local officials.
Trump even outrageously posted an AI-generated racist video on the social media site he owns that portrayed Barack and Michelle Obama — America’s only Black president and first lady — as apes. Trump refused to apologize, unconvincingly claiming he had not seen the final seconds of the video that was only 62 seconds long.
These and other racist attacks Trump has directed against African Americans are the sort of things you would expect to see from the leader of the Ku Klux Klan or a neo-Nazi — not a U.S. president in the 21st century.
The Republican Party was founded in 1854 to oppose the spread of slavery. The first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, waged a Civil War that finally abolished the barbaric and immoral institution.
As the descendant of enslaved African Americans, I believe that Trump will succeed only temporarily in slowing our nation’s long journey that began under Lincoln to bring about equal rights for all and end racism. We will all be better off when the journey resumes.
A. Scott Bolden is an attorney, NewsNation contributor, former chair of the Washington, D.C. Democratic Party and a former New York state prosecutor.
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Opinion
Trump has turned Republicans into the anti-Black party
A. Scott Bolden, opinion contributor
Sun, May 31, 2026
Led by President Trump, the Republican Party has disgracefully embraced white Christian nationalists and is working to turn back the clock on progress America has made in the struggle against racism and other bigotry.
Some 83 percent of Black voters are Democrats or lean Democratic, according to the Pew Research Center. Because of this, Trump has demanded Republican officials make it harder for African Americans to vote and elect candidates of their choosing.
Trump has successfully pressured Republican-controlled states to engage in mid-decade congressional redistricting that could enable the GOP to gain more than a dozen House seats and reduce the number of Black House members.
Redistricting approved by California voters could enable Democrats to win up to five more House seats, and a court order will likely enable Democrats to win one more House seat in Utah.
Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus, recently said that 19 of the 59 Black Democrats now in the House are in danger of losing their seats in the November elections because of Republican redistricting. In addition, none of the four Black Republicans in the House is seeking reelection. (Two are running for governor, one ran unsuccessfully for Senate, and one is retiring after the Utah court decision mentioned above redrew his seat.)
The redistricting that could reduce the number of Black House members was made possible by a historic 6-3 ruling by the Republican appointees on the Supreme Court. The ruling removed protections the 1965 Voting Rights Act gave to racial minorities in voting districts where they are a majority of the population.
The Supreme Court decision allows partisan gerrymandering of such districts as long as it is not motivated by intentional racial discrimination. But it is almost impossible to prove that redistricting is intentionally motivated by racism.
The Voting Rights Act, which removed many barriers that prevented African Americans from voting in the South, dramatically increased the number of Black officials elected to local, state and federal office. According to Sherrilyn Ifill, a Howard University law professor, there were only about 1,500 Black elected officials nationwide in 1970, but there are more than 10,000 today.
Having more African Americans in elected office makes government more understanding of and responsive to the needs of the Black community. White officials elected from jurisdictions with many Black voters also know they must represent the needs of their constituents if they hope to be reelected. This is how representative democracy is supposed to work.
Rather than splitting up Black communities into multiple congressional districts to dilute their voting power and reduce the number of African American elected officials, Republicans ought to adopt policies to attract more Black voters.
Instead, Trump and his fellow Republicans are doing all they can to win the support of white voters who resent advances African Americans have made in education, employment and elected office. As a result, Republicans have solidified their shameful and un-American status as the anti-Black party.
Trump has issued executive orders declaring DEI programs to be illegal discrimination and has succeeded in reducing the number of such programs.
The president has demanded that Congress pass legislation that would disproportionately reduce the ability of African Americans to vote and cut funding for social programs that benefit many Black people. He has fired Black federal officials, appointed only one Black person to his 24-person second-term Cabinet, and ordered federal museums and national parks to whitewash America’s ugly history of racism.
Under Trump, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has radically shifted its focus from investigating and prosecuting discrimination against people of color and women to combating supposed discrimination against white men and preventing extremely rare instances of non-citizens voting.
Trump has repeatedly insulted Black people who criticize him by calling them “low-IQ” and with other slurs about their intelligence, such as referring to then-Vice President Kamala Harris as “dumb,” “mentally unfit,” “slow” and “stupid” when she ran against him in 2024.
On top of this, Trump has said Black immigrants come to the U.S. from “s—hole countries.” And he falsely accused Black immigrants from Haiti of stealing and eating pet dogs and cats from families in Springfield, Ohio, despite denials from local officials.
Trump even outrageously posted an AI-generated racist video on the social media site he owns that portrayed Barack and Michelle Obama — America’s only Black president and first lady — as apes. Trump refused to apologize, unconvincingly claiming he had not seen the final seconds of the video that was only 62 seconds long.
These and other racist attacks Trump has directed against African Americans are the sort of things you would expect to see from the leader of the Ku Klux Klan or a neo-Nazi — not a U.S. president in the 21st century.
The Republican Party was founded in 1854 to oppose the spread of slavery. The first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, waged a Civil War that finally abolished the barbaric and immoral institution.
As the descendant of enslaved African Americans, I believe that Trump will succeed only temporarily in slowing our nation’s long journey that began under Lincoln to bring about equal rights for all and end racism. We will all be better off when the journey resumes.
A. Scott Bolden is an attorney, NewsNation contributor, former chair of the Washington, D.C. Democratic Party and a former New York state prosecutor.
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