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‘Blacks For Trump:’ Supporter Sparks Internet Frenzy During Phoenix Speech


The supporter, known as “Michael the Black Man,” has attended several rallies over the past year. BY NEWSONE STAFF


f you watched Donald Trump‘s televised speech


Tuesday night in Phoenix, Arizona, then you saw a supporter known as “Michael the Black Man,” who was firmly planted just behind the president’s right shoulder.


He held the sign, “BLACKS FOR TRUMP,” and


wore a T-shirt emblazoned with the words, “TRUMP & Republicans Are Not Racist” at the event at the convention center.


The Washington Post points out that the supporter,


who has a checkered past, has attended several rallies over the year. In the 1990s, he was charged, then acquitted with conspiracy to commit two murder, the Post writes:


The presence of Michael — variously known as


Michael Symonette, Maurice Woodside and Mikael Israel — has inspired not only trending Twitter hashtags but a great deal of curiosity and Google searches. Internet sleuths find the man’s bizarre URL, a easily accessible gateway to his strange and checkered past.


The radical fringe activist from Miami once belonged to a violent


black supremacist religious cult, and he runs a handful of amateur, unintelligible conspiracy websites. He has called Barack Obama “The Beast” and Hillary Clinton a Ku Klux Klan member. Oprah Winfrey, he says, is the devil.


Given the recent events in Charlottesville, Twitter reacted swiftly to


seeing a Black man stumping for a president, who waxed nostalgic about statues that pay homage to men who fought to keep Blacks enslaved in the U.S.


After noting the diversity of our troops, Trump said they should not have to return home from war to a country that is “at war with itself.”


“We cannot remain a force for peace in the world if we are not at peace


with each other,” he said to a military audience at Fort Myer, Virginia. What’s behind this—at least temporary—change of heart? Perhaps it’s the new poll, which found that just 28 percent of


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Americans approved of how he handled Charlottesville. Perhaps it’s the widespread criticism, even from within his party, of his unwillingness to condemn neo-Nazis.


On Monday, Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan condemned the


president’s remarks on Charlottesville, in which Trump placed anti-racism counterprotesters on the same moral plane as White supremacist groups.


“I do believe that he messed up in his comments on Tuesday when


it sounded like a moral equivocation or at the very least moral ambiguity when we need extreme moral clarity,” Ryan told CNN, referring to the president’s news conference at Trump Tower.


Whatever the case, we’ve been on this ride before with President


Trump. After reading a prepared speech, in which he sounds reasonable, Trump reverses himself and shows his true colors.


CNN said we may find out on Tuesday during the president’s


campaign-style rally in Phoenix “whether Trump can possibly keep up this call to our better angels.”


Even if he doesn’t fall off the rail in Phoenix, the network said he still


has a long way to go toward convincing “a deeply skeptical public that he is a uniter, not a divider.”


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