black republicans
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The Myth of the Black Male Trump Supporter
The following fairy tale is based on a true story. Once upon a time, in a kingdom not so far away, an evil orange emperor ruled the land. With a face resembling an orangutang’s hind parts (except for the chalky ovals encircling his eyelids) and golden windswept hair dyed like jaundiced straw, the king earned…
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Trump Reveals Pandering 'Platinum Plan' to Black MAGA Supporters, and CeCe Winans Appears to Count in That Number
President Trump took to Atlanta, Ga. on Friday to unveil his plan for pandering to Black Americans in the 11th hour of the 2020 Elections. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, polls in Georgia show the race between Trump and Biden running essentially neck-to-neck. This tight face-off is likely what inspired the orange incumbent to gather…
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Daniel Cameron’s Tears Were a Job Application
Of course, the tears Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron shed during his press conference this afternoon were a lie. They were also an audition. The audience he was performing for—the people he’s been speaking to with his body language, his haircut, his intonation, his choice of wife, and his wedding date—witnessed both the sort of hollow…
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Watch: Black Republican Reboots The Wire to Explain How Democrats Ruined Baltimore
My grandmother once said: “If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything.” That’s why I learned how to write. The Root is often accused of being biased in favor of progressive politics (Confession: We are biased toward progressive politics), but today, we’d like to display some bipartisan goodwill by discussing a political…
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Black Lives MAGA: President Launches Campaign Effort Called ‘Black Voices for Trump’ (of All Things)—In Atlanta (of All Places)
Move over Arianna Huffington! Donald Trump is now co-opting “Black Voices”—as you did in 2011 when you took it over with your multimillion-dollar deal with AOL. And as AOL did years before when they took it over from Barry Cooper and Tribune. But I digress.On Friday, AmeriKKKa’s favorite president hit Hotlanta—the quasi-mecca for upwardly mobile,…
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‘Clueless’ Actress Catches Case on Charges She Battered Hubby
Actress—and one of Donald Trump’s faves—Stacey Dash of Clueless fame was arrested after police say she pushed and slapped her husband in a domestic violence dispute. According to NBC News, Pasco County Sheriff’s officers in Land O’ Lakes, Fla., outside Tampa, arrested the actress-turned-conservative commentator on Sunday. She was charged with domestic battery. A manager…
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The Black Man Trump Called ‘My African American’ Calls It Quits on the Republican Party
Gregory Cheadle, the black Republican Donald Trump once referred to as “my African American,” has finally had enough of Trump’s shenanigans and is quitting the GOP and making a run for Congress as an independent. In an interview with PBS NewsHour, Cheadle said he had hoped that as president, Trump would focus on economic issues…
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Tucker Carlson and Chill: White Conservatives in DC Can’t Get a Date, but the Black Ones Are Doing Fine
Apparently it’s really hard for the khaki-pants-wearing, tiki-torch-carrying, Trump-loving crowd to find dates in Washington, D.C. At least that’s the conclusion of “Why It’s Hard for Conservatives to Date in D.C. Right Now,” a piece in The Washingtonian magazine that’s become all the talk in Washington circles this week. Or at least some Washington circles. Conservatives…
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Video of Me Was Used to Introduce Donald Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference and I’m Pretty Sure I’m on a Watch List
I should cosplay as the characters from Undercover Brother or The Spook Who Sat by the Door. I have parachuted in to report at just about every single right-wing, alt-conservative confab you can think of over the last few years. Red State, the NRA convention and GOP conventions. If the Fox News, “Make America great…