Paul Mecurio Battles Shermichael Singleton on Race: ‘The Fact that You’re an African-American Doesn’t Mean that I Can’t Make this Point’

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SINGLETON: "I don't need to be lectured on electoral politics."
MECURIO: "I‘m not lecturing, but I should be — the fact that you‘re an African-American doesn‘t mean that I can‘t make this point. That‘s not fair. You‘re trying to manipulate the conversation."
SINGLETON: "I didn't say that. I said I'm a strategist. Who said anything about -- "
MECURIO: "So what I‘m saying is, when he does all of these things, when he does all of these things, when he does all of these things, just to wrap this up, when he does all of these things and people see it, he doesn‘t care in the second term because he doesn‘t need the black vote anymore, because he‘s not running again."