WASHINGTON, D.C. – October 6, 2024) – Looking historically at demographics, Black men in America have for centuries been singled out for the most vicious and dehumanizing attacks on their personhood and their manhood.
Without delving too deeply into America’s dark past, one need only read the Autobiography of Frederick Douglas to capture a glimpse of the atrocious acts perpetrated against Black men that began during slavery and continued unabated with the murders of George Floyd, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and others to understand that the institutional animosity, the stereotyping, and the marginalizing is an everyday phenomenon that still defines the day-to-day existence of many Black men struggling to survive in America.
Donald Trump continues to perpetuate a “Guilty until proven innocent” mentality that too many in authority still perpetuate. His record of racist and derogatory behavior toward Black men is well-documented. To begin, he and his father discriminated against African Americans who wanted to rent Trump apartments in New York.
To add to this record of racial discrimination, Trump – without hard evidence – asserted that the “Central Park Five” (four young Black males and one Latino) were guilty of the brutal rape of a young White woman and asserted that they deserved the death penalty. Even after the accused were acquitted, Trump has consistently refused to apologize. During his recent debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, he doubled down on this false accusation.
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