During the interview, Pastor Darrell Scott, who presides over New Spirit Revival Center  in Cleveland, vehemently spoke out against any implications of Trump being a white supremacist. “It’s not racial, it’s cultural”, Pastor Scott says in regards to Trump referring to one of his Black male supporters in attendance for his Redding, CA rally as “my African-American over here”.

“It was a term of endearment”, Scott adds.

Last night’s CNN appearance hasn’t been the first time that Pastor Scott has openly voiced his support for Donald Trump. Back in September, Scott and a number of other Black clergy members met with Trump in his New York office to ‘pray for him’, showing their support for him in the process.

Here is the video of the CNN interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji9tySA08hE

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For those who don’t follow sports, Bob “Bobby” Knight is a man who made his name in the sport of basketball, coaching major college programs such as Indiana University (where he cemented his legacy as a coach by winning three national championships), and Texas Tech where he coached in the twilight of his coaching career.

While the list of Knight’s on-the-court accomplishments appear to be plentiful, the opposite can be said about Bob Knight as a person off the court. In a 1988 interview with famed media personality Connie Chung, Knight appeared to celebrate the raping of women, stating that “if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it”. In spite of making such an atrocious remark, white society’s reverence for Knight remained as strong as ever. However, his star power would lose some of its luster in 2000 when the news broke that Knight was physically assaulting students. White supremacists and suspected white supremacists alike often dismiss accounts of Knight’s bigotry towards Black players–simply dismissing the coach’s shenanigans as a ‘competitive fire’ used to galvanize the players on his team. In 2000, a Black NBA coach by the name of Butch Carter (who played for Knight at Indiana U) wrote a book which claimed that Knight called his players “niggers”, including his soon-to-be NBA bound star player, Isiah Thomas.

It was written in Carter’s book that the coach “does not like educated, strong-willed Blacks”. This would probably explain why Knight has openly criticized the current climate surrounding the game of basketball, in which Black players are making unlimited amounts of money while taking the trajectory of their careers into their own hands.

Fast forward to last night’s primary in the state of Indiana, and Bob Knight steps forward to announce his endorsement of Donald Trump. “There has never been a presidential candidate prepared to the length that this man is. You will be helping our government take the first step toward what all of us want our government to be like”, the former basketball coach told the crowd of Trump supporters on hand.

While many people would overlook Bob Knight’s endorsement of Donald Trump as happenstance, it should be noted that suspected white supremacists of Knight’s ilk oftentimes have open access to Black youths–namely young Black males–where they become revered as “father figures” and mentors to these unsuspecting Melanoid youth…only for them to expose their suppressed white supremacist tendencies and hatred (for Black people) years after countless young Black men have been groomed and influenced by them. Bob Knight and his role in the lives of young Black men over the years highlights the desperate need for strong Black male leadership for the next generation of Black males.

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The meeting was held on the premise that Trump would be able to “reach out to an influential set of Republican primary voters”, according to CNN.com. Of course, the meeting itself should not come as a surprise as it is par for the course and indicative of the typical dog and pony shows put on by political candidates. The real disappointing factor is the presence of highly influential Black clergymen in the meeting that afternoon who, at this point, would likely be averse to “handling issues at home”, such as the long dirty laundry list of issues plaguing Black Society.

One of the Black pastors in attendance, by the name of Mark Burns, participated in the closing of the meeting which involved the religious leaders gathering around Trump, and extending their collective hands toward him in prayer. Burns’s wife, Tomarra, uploaded this video to her Facebook page. Dr. David Jeremiah, the white religious leader who led the closing prayer, prayed that God “bring into his life a strong African-American who can stand with him (Trump) and represent that community, so that his voice can be heard in an even stronger way there.”

Given Donald Trump’s long history of racism against Melanoid people, don’t expect David Jeremiah’s prayers to be answered…even if hell freezes over.

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Nevada Assemblyman Ira Hansen (R), who the assembly’s Republican caucus selected as their choice to be its next speaker earlier this month, has a long history of racist statements chronicled in a long list published by the Reno News Review. Among other things, as part of a broader statement of support for school vouchers, Hansen claimed that “[t]he relationship of Negroes and Democrats is truly a master-slave relationship, with the benevolent master knowing what’s best for his simple minded darkies.”

Indeed, according to the News Review, Hansen keeps a Confederate battle flag on his wall, which he says that he flies “proudly in honor and in memory of a great cause and my brave ancestors who fought for that cause.”

With blatant white supremacists being elected to government positions like this in different states around the country,one could understand why it is so difficult for Melanoid people to get justice in the judicial system.