AFRICAN AMERICANS/DEMS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As ‘Robert Mueller Wednesday’ overtook Washington, with the nation transfixed on the congressional testimony of the special counsel who investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election, Democratic presidential hopefuls laid out a different case: that President Trump is a bigot who unduly harms black communities. One by one, at the national convention of the N.A.A.C.P., the nation’s largest and oldest civil rights organization, the Democratic candidates chose not to discuss Mr. Mueller’s testimony in detail and instead outlined their respective plans to uplift black people. When they did mention Mr. Trump, it was often in the context of his remarks about racial minorities, and his tendency to evoke stereotypes steeped in racist history to degrade his political opponents…Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has made outreach to black voters, a critical voting bloc in the Democratic primary, a hallmark of her ascendant candidacy.”
–Astead W. Herndon, “At N.A.A.C.P. Forum, 2020 Democrats Say Trump Harms Black Communities,” The New York Times online, July 24, 2019