AFRICAN AMERICANS/POLITICAL FIGURES: “People don’t realize, you know, if you go back to the Civil War, it was the Republicans that really did the thing. Lincoln was a Republican. I mean, somehow it changed over the years, and I will say I really believe it’s changing back.
Remember, I was going to get no black votes?… I was going to get none? Well, I got a lot. I got a lot of support, you know, and I should have gotten much more.”
-Donald Trump as quoted by Aaron Blake, “Trump’s unwieldy ‘Fox and Friends’ interview, annotated,” washingtonpost.com, Apr. 26, 2018