Donald Trump is delusional (African American Group Thread)

[JustAnotherGen]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-african-american_us_5751f2b3e4b0ed593f147736

Trump continued by insinuating that the media has hidden his black supporters.

“We have tremendous African-American support,” he said. “The reason is I’m going to bring jobs back to our country. But when these sleazy people, these dishonest people who never show the crowds ... When they showed that event, it made it look like the white guy was on my side.”

The presumptive GOP nominee has previously claimed he’ll do well with black voters in November’s general election. However, a Quinnipiac Poll released this week found Hillary Clinton winning 93 percent of the black vote in a potential match-up with the business mogul.

Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.

PJ Media is doing him no favors:
https://pjmedia.com/diaryofamadvoter/2016/04/27/how-trump-can-win-the-black-vote-to-win-the-election/

In the welter of cable commentary over Donald Trump's overwhelming victories in the so-called "Acela primary" Tuesday, among the most startling was an aside by CNN's Van Jones that Trump could win the election if he got just 25% of the black vote. Now this didn't make the African-American activist who co-founded and is the current president of Dream Corps, a “social justice accelerator,” particularly happy. Nor did or does it please BET's Tavis Smiley, who has made similar mention of Trump's possible inroads in the black community. But it's true.

Donald Trump really could win the general election by being the first Republican in years to gain a significant percentage of the African-American vote. He just has to make a serious and sustained effort, with genuine proposals, to do it. If the attempt is simply self-referential bluster (like bragging about the actually paltry number of Hispanics who voted for him in Nevada) coupled with unspecified pledges of "greatness," he might as well not bother. It will end up a disheartening misfire that will not only be an insult to his supporters but a continuing -- and worsening -- wound to our country.

Nevertheless, the auguries for Trump in this area are extremely good, certainly the best in recent years for a Republican, if he should choose to act upon them. And for the sake of all Americans, he should. In fact, he'd better.

The African-American community is in a miserable condition that has been getting worse for decades and has reached its nadir under Obama -- two-parent families disappearing, unemployment rates skyrocketing, incarceration rates catastrophic, drug addiction epidemic. We all look on in despair as gang members shoot children in the streets of Chicago and murders -- almost all black-on-black -- proliferate in Baltimore after years of decline.

That bolded part is why in a match up against Clinton she grabs 93%.

It's the same racist trope on the Right. We've been reading and hearing this bullshit since 1976. It's old, it's tired and it continues to feed old tired memes from the dominant culture that make them feel better about themselves.

I kind of enjoy their delusions of grandeur. I hope they hold onto them right up to 11/8.

[Kind of Blue]

1. Seems like the count has decreased. Ann Coulter once claimed

"Our blacks are so much better than their blacks." Trump has one black now.

I enjoy their delusions, too, they're better than anyone could make up.

[awoke_in_2003]

2. Just ask his African-American...

I am convinced he is trying to derail his campaign, but his supporters keep eating his stuff up.