Mara Gay: Trump Went to Black Journalists Convention to Show He’s ‘Ready to Put Black People in Their Place, Particularly Black Women’

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GAY: “Yeah, I mean, sure. I surely believe that he went with the intention of showing himself and his hardest core right-wing supporters that he is fully ready to put black people in their place, particularly black women. I think, as weird as this was to some people, it’s not weird to me. It’s familiar. I think for a lot of black Americans, the experience of somebody saying to you, a white person saying to you, oh, you think you can be fully American, you think you deserve this job, you’re just a DEI hire. You don’t belong here, uppity, whatever you want to kind of go there with. So that’s really what this was about. I also believe that it was an attempt to change the conversation, which had been largely focused on Kamala Harris’ electrification, if you will, of the Democratic Party. And I think that he personally needed a serotonin rush, that this is his comfort. This is his — this is where he’s comfortable. This is his red meat. It’s also all he has to offer the American people. And it’s a reminder that it’s the same old divisive playbook.”