Trump surrogate tweets cartoon of Clinton in blackface, Trump campaign sees no problem with that
Ahead of Donald Trump's latest effort to not look like a racist (going to Detroit to talk to a black person), one of his chief black surrogates has created yet another racist scandal for him.
Pastor Mark Burns, a prominent surrogate for Donald Trump, on Monday tweeted out a cartoon that accuses Hillary Clinton of pandering and portrays her in blackface. […]“I ain’t no ways tired of pandering to African Americans,” the text next to Clinton reads, emphasizing the word “pandering.”
“Black Americans, THANK YOU FOR YOUR VOTES and letting me use you again..See you again in 4 years,” Burns tweeted, apparently conveying a message from Clinton to black voters.
After initially defending the tweet and the cartoon as "satire," Burns ended up deleting it and "apologizing" for offending anyone who might have been offended. "I want to apologize because the last thing I want to do is to anger people. I really am a unifier," he said. Uh, huh. "It was not at all my intention to offend or to not offend anyone, the last thing I want to do is to offend people." Sure.
It's not like blackface has ever offended anyone, right? How could he possibly know how people would react? It's a good enough excuse for Trump, anyway. The campaign says they're going to keep him around.