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Donald Trump’s Wooing Of Black Vote Did Not Go Well In Charleston
Donald Trump and Rev. Al Sharpton in 2001.
One Baltimore Officer Told Others Freddie Gray Was In Distress
CHARLESTON, S.C. Real estate mogul and Republican presidential candidate, Don- ald Trump, says he feels very confident that he can win the Black vote. However, he re- cently spoke at an event affili- ated with the South Carolina African American Chamber of Commerce in Charleston, and very few local Black business leaders even showed up. Re- portedly, his audience was mostly white and barely filled the room, but they were excited about his speech. But according to MSNBC, “Black conference- goers looked on with far less en- thusiasm.
Despite this, Trump re- cently insists, “Generally, Re- publicans do not do well with African-Americans. But I have a lot of friends, African-Ameri-
cans in New York...”
Trump has even cited a re-
cent poll from Survey USA, which claims that he has sup- port from 25% of Black respon- dents in a match-up against Democratic presidential candi- date Hillary Clinton. He in- sists that’s all he needs to win the general election.
Can he really win the Black vote?
Well, only time will tell. But other polls do not indicate that he has a lot of support from black voters. For example, a re- cent Quinnipiac University poll indicates that Trump got only 3% of Black support in a match- up against Clinton.
But in a recent Reuters / Ipsos poll, Trump had the biggest support from Black Re- publicans and independents.
Freddie Gray
...dies of a broken spine in police custody.
A Baltimore Police Depart- ment internal investigation shows that at least one officer suggested that Freddie Gray needed "medical care but won- dered, along with others, whether he was faking injuries or being uncooperative," ac- cording to the Baltimore Sun.
The alert for medical atten- tion, which the news outlet notes has never been publicly revealed, likely explains why a judge has ordered separate tri- als for the six officers charged in the Gray's April 12 arrest, which led to nights of protests and an eventual shakeup of the city's leadership. Some of the officers' accounts of the inci-
The Baltimore police officers arrested in the death of Freddie Gray (clockwise from top left): Caesar Goodson Jr., Brian Rice, Edward Nero, bottom, William Porter, Garrett Miller and Alicia White.
dent differ, leading defense at- torneys to argue that such "conflicts could create prob- lems in a joint trial," notes the report.
The officer, William Porter, who is Black, report- edly told investigators that after he was called to check on Gray, he told the transport "driver that the city booking fa- cility would not process Gray because he was in medical dis- tress," the Sun writes.
Porter told investigators that Gray said: "Help me. Help me up," the report says. The of- ficer claims to have helped Gray up, writes the Sun, ask- ing, "Do you need a medic or
something? Do you need to go to the hospital?" Gray, 25, who was in handcuffs and shackles and not secured with a seatbelt, told the officer yes.
Porter then says he told the driver of the van, Officer Cae- sar Goodson, Jr., that Cen- tral Booking would not accept Gray because he was in med- ical distress, noting that he was uncertain if Gray was "trying to convince officers to take him to the hospital instead of jail," the report says. During the dis- cussion, another call came in for police support and Good- son left the scene with Gray still unsecured in the back of the van.
Texas City Council Votes To Keep Street Named After Woman Found Hung In Jail
SANDRA BLAND
Nielsen: African-Americans Rise
In Education, Income, Media And More
PRAIRIE VIEW, TX --The newly minted Sandra Bland Parkway in Prairie View, Texas, will keep its name.
The Prairie View City Coun- cil voted Tuesday to keep the name for a road that leads into Prairie View A&M University and was renamed this summer in honor of Bland, who died at the Waller County Jail in July after she arrested during a traf- fic stop, according to KHOU.
Police said Bland was found hanging in her cell after the July 10 arrest. But suspicions arose after the release of a po- lice dash cam video of Bland's traffic stop and arrest. An offi- cer had stopped Bland for fail- ing to signal a lane change, but
their encounter became con- frontational, and the officer ar- rested her for allegedly assaulting him.
To ease tensions in the com- munity, the City Council voted in August to change the name of University Boulevard to San- dra Bland Parkway. It is the same stretch of road on which she was stopped and arrested. Not everyone agreed with the name change, and city leaders on Tuesday heard from a di- vided community on the issue. But lawmakers decided to keep the new name in honor of Bland, who had moved back to Texas in July to take a job with her alma mater, Prairie View A&M University.
WASHINGTON, DC — Nielsen released In- creasingly Affluent, Educated and Diverse: African-American Consumers – the Untold Story, the fifth installment in its Diverse Intelli- gence Series. This new report is inclusive of in- sights about affluent Black consumers with annual household incomes of $75,000 and higher and upends outdated stereotypes about African Amer- icans, from education and income to media con- sumption and social engagement.
The report was released at a press conference during the Congressional Black Caucus Founda- tion, Inc.’s 45th Annual Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C.
Increasingly Affluent, Educated and Diverse: African-American Consumers – the Untold Story explores the evolution of upper-income Black Americans as the population continues to grow and change rapidly. At 45.7 million strong [1], the nation’s Black population grew at 17.7% from 2000 to 2014 — 35% faster than the total popula- tion and double the 8.2% growth rate of the White population.
The growth rate of the Black population is partly attributed to the surge in Black immigration from the Caribbean, Africa and some European countries, making the overall population incredi- bly diverse. Foreign-born Blacks are contributing to increased incomes in the African-American community: their median household incomes are 30% higher than U. S.-born Blacks.
“The size and influence of affluent African- Americans is growing faster than that of non-His- panic Whites across all income segments, and the impact is being felt across industries,” said Cheryl Pearson-McNeil, Senior Vice Presi- dent, U.S. Strategic Community Alliances and Consumer Engagement, Nielsen.
“These larger incomes are attributed to a num- ber of factors including youthfulness, immigra- tion, historic educational attainment and constant, relevant dialogue across various social media channels that have an impact on African-
Americans’ decisions as brand loyalists and am- bassadors. Savvy marketers are taking notice.”
Some of the stats include:
Educational progression:
* The rate of Black high school graduates en- rolled in college increased in 2014 to 70.9%, ex- ceeding the rate of all high-school graduates in the nation.
* 23% of African-Americans with annual household incomes of more than $100,000 search for jobs online (compared to 14% of Whites).
* 11% of African-Americans with annual house- hold incomes of more than $100,000 take college courses online (compared to 5% of Whites).
Income growth rates:
* African-American income growth rates out- paced those of non-Hispanic Whites at every an- nual household income level above $60,000.
* The largest increase for African-American households occurred in the number of households earning over $200,000, with an increase of 138%, compared with a total population increase of 74%.
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