Trump's outreach to African Americans not sincere : Pundit

Press TV has spoken to Bruce Dixon, with Georgia Green Party from Atlanta, to discuss the views of US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump towards the African-American community.

Here is a rough transcription of the interview:  

Press TV: Is Trump being sincere when he stands up there at the podium telling African Americans that he loves them?

Dixon: It's really hard to know about Trump's sincerity. I think the only time Trump is sincere is when he talks about how much he loves himself.

Press TV: We’ve seen a bunch of presidential rallies polarized along race lines. Can you please go ahead and touch on some of the frictions that you've seen, with blacks getting confronted by Trump’s supporters at his rallies?

Dixon: The Republican Party for the last 50 or 55 years has made itself almost explicitly the white man's party and everybody knows that. So, Trump is simply appealing to the constituency and the myths and everything that his more polite Republican counterparts have cultivated for the last half century. They may hold their noses but he's really their baby. And of course Trump is famous for applauding from the stage while black and Latino audience members get ejected from his rallies. But this is the sort of thing that Trump has been doing since long before he ran for office.

Back in the 1980s or 1990s, there was a famous case called ‘The Central Park Five’ where there was a white woman raped and murdered in Central Park in New York City. The police department, the news media, were all up in arms for the arrest of whoever did it. They wanted the five young black men arrested and put on trial for their lives. They did [serve time for] about 20 years before it turned out that all five of them were innocent.

Trump put full-page ads in New York Times while the trial was going on demanding that these guys be put to death. After they were freed, Trump came out and said they must have been guilty of something anyway. So, Trump's pronouncements of his newfound respect and love for people of color, black, brown and whatnot, are nothing but games.

Press TV: If elected what do you think Donald Trump will actually do for the African-American community?

Dixon: There's not a chance in hell Mr. Trump will be elected. I don't believe that. That is such a wildly improbable thing despite what the polls are saying. The polls make it close. But Trump's election is widely improbable.

Press TV: But with all the stuff that's facing Hillary Clinton right now - the emails scandal - she's actually lost a lot of percentage points. And Trump is actually creeping up on her in the polls.

Dixon: In the polls. But Trump is an amateur and the people running his campaign are amateurs. The Democratic Party is a fully-formed imperial ruling party. They know how to do this. Trump talks a bad game. But Hillary and her crowd have actually invaded countries, overthrowing people, and have actually ruled this country for some time now. They are going to win the election. Trust me on that. No matter what the polls are saying today two months out.

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