At a rally last week in California, Donald Trump spotted a man in the crowd and practically referred to him like a piece of property. Not just any man. A Black man. Trump rejoyced, “Look at my African-American over there! You know what I’m talking about.”
This came after Trump recalled a Black supporter punching a protestor wearing a KKK outfit before being arrested. Using this story as a way to show he enjoyed the support of Black people, Trump spotted “his” Africa American and it was all downhill from there.
Who is the so-called African-American that Trump “owned”?
@djolder pic.twitter.com/EUUipk6UVd
— . (@LadyOnTheMuna) June 3, 2016
Well, that African American man just happens to be the Republican candidate to represent California’s 1st congressional district.
His name is Gregory Cheadle.
With three degrees under his belt, one of which is a law degree, Cheadle is a real estate broker who has spent every Friday night volunteering in the ER of his local hospital for 12 years. So what was Cheadle doing there and how did he feel about being “owned” by Trump? Cheadle told NPR, “I am not a Trump supporter,” Cheadle said. “I went to go hear Donald Trump because I have an open mind.”
What comes next though might surprise you.
In what Cheadle calls a “surreal” experience, he says that he is not offended by the comments made by the candidate to which he refers to as “Uncle Donald”. Taking Trump’s comments as positive, Cheadle says it was Trump’s choice of words that left people confused. “Had he said, ‘Here’s my African-American friend,’ or ‘my African-American supporter’ or something like that, then there would be less ambiguity. Had he said, ‘Here’s my African-American’ and then after that said, ‘What’s up, dawg,’ or ‘boy’ or even the N-word as they use it today, I really would have been offended.”
I think its safe to say that Black Twitter understood what Trump meant and dragged Trump for filth.
@CandaceSmith_ Trump to a black rally goer: “Look at my AfricanAmerican over there! You know what I’m talking about? pic.twitter.com/gXynJjHhxi
— Beauty’sOnlySkinDeep (@BlackPearlMoi) June 3, 2016
@CandaceSmith_ @Acosta @MSNBC – How can Donald Trump be so clueless about pointing out a African American that way?? pic.twitter.com/YAYn64cHLv
— Esther Santiago (@EstherSantiag15) June 3, 2016
Donald Trump “You get an African American! You Get an African American! You get an African American!” pic.twitter.com/6EU09f2jiC
— Thelonious Legend (@TheLegendBooks) June 3, 2016
It’s something that Trump managed to avoid calling that African American supporter “Harambe.” Such restraint.
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) June 3, 2016
Let this serve as a friendly reminder that slavery was abolished in 1865 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned racial discrimination. We may really ned to start thinking of an exit strategy if we let this man become President.
