MSNBC’s Al Sharpton Blasts Trump Black Voter Outreach — Torches Whiteness of Trump’s Businesses

During a Morning Joe discussion on the progress (or lack thereof) of racial economic disparities, Rev. Al Sharpton called out former President Donald Trump for his claims about what he has done for the Black community.

Wednesday’s conversation, prompted by the observation of Juneteenth, showed a lot of stark statistics about the wealth gap between races, and Sharpton pointed out that in the context of American history, it was going to take more than one generation for the country to catch up. But he directly pointed to the ex-president as part of the problem:

You must remember that after they stopped Reconstruction and went into this era that ended up with Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896, there was no legal change till 1954 with Brown v. Board of Education. You’re talking about a span of almost a century. We’re the only race that, by law, couldn’t do certain things. We had biases against others that came to the country, but we were named by law not to have equal rights. And we’re talking about my parents, my grandparents. So you’re right. You can’t erase that in a generation, because by law we couldn’t do certain things.

And the absurdity of Donald Trump acting like he did something. As you know, Joe, I knew Donald Trump for 35 years, fought with him, went to meet with him, tried to get him to do things. I’ve never seen a Black employee in Donald Trump’s office. Not one. I used to say going up Trump Towers was like going up the Rocky Mountains — the higher you got, the whiter it got. You didn’t see one Black employee at his trial. So, he did what for Blacks? He didn’t do it as a private citizen, and as Steve Rattner’s charts show, he didn’t do it as the president.

Watch the video above via MSNBC.

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