LOADING ERROR LOADINGDonald Trump said he can’t be racist because he has “so many Black friends,” but former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele isn’t buying it. Steele said racists certainly can have Black friends ― and added that in Trump’s case, there’s a long track record of racism. Advertisement“It is more BS from the man who argued for and will argue to this day for the execution of five innocent young Black men,” he said on MSNBC on Sunday, referring to the Central Park Five. Trump, in 1989, took out full-page ads calling on New York to bring back the death penalty when five young Black men were arrested in the case of a jogger in Central Park who was raped and beaten. “So spare me that ‘Donald Trump has Black friends’ BS,” Steele said.

Source: Huffington Post June 17, 2024 12:24 UTC