Black audience should have been appalled

I have been a black conservative all of my life, but I have never been so ashamed at that title as when I viewed the Trump speech at the Black Conservative Federation’s annual gala. There were many times I felt disgusted, but I will take time to pull out only two things very quickly.

For Trump to say, “I only see the black people,” and then to suggest black people like him because he was indicted like we are, those statements alone are disgusting and ignorant, but when you apply his history of rejecting qualified black applicants for his apartments in New York and his scathing article condemning five innocent black youth in NY who were proven wrongfully convicted of the rape of a white woman and calling for their execution, then you can say this is expected from him thus only par for the course. A racist will be a racist, and that is expected, but for every black person, decent black person, a black person with integrity to not only not get up and walk out of there but to cheer and clap for him is disgusting! They set back this race 100 years acting tomfoolery and step-and-fetchin’ it.

If any of you in BCF have any decency about yourself you should be appalled and disgusted, but I will leave you with the words of Harriet Tubman: “I freed 1,000 slaves. I could have freed 1,000 more if only they knew they were slaves.”

Michael J. Graves

Burlington