Republicans Comparing Trump to Tupac and MLK Are Offensive and Wrong
Despite a number of Fox News hosts’ comments, Trump’s mugshot does nothing to endear him to the Black community.
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Republicans on Fox News and elsewhere are going wild after seeing Donald Trump’s mugshot last week.
Jesse Watters, for instance, said on The Five that the quadruple-indicted former president looks “hard”—while claiming that the image is already managing to endear him to Black voters.
It’s an extremely offensive insinuation, The New Abnormal host Danielle Moodie says.
“Apparently what they believe about Black people and Black culture is that all we do is identify with criminals and crooks, which, by the way, we don’t!” she said on this week’s episode.
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“The worst of those is the ones that have the Trump mugshot and MLK Jr.’s booking photos side-by-side,” she added. “I just look at that and I’m like, ‘Well, OK, I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here, because you would be all for Martin Luther King rotting in jail. I’m not even sure what kind of comparison you’re trying to make here, but it just, it doesn’t work.”
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