To the Editor:
Re “Blacks Beg to Differ With Trump’s Depiction” (news article, Aug. 25):
When Donald Trump told African-Americans that our schools “are no good,” we “have no jobs” and we are in danger of being shot, a group of golfing buddies and I were waiting for a table at a restaurant in Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard. Doctors, lawyers and bankers, we sat at the bar and looked at the TV and we just laughed.
I do not claim to speak for African-Americans as a whole, but Mr. Trump has no idea what he is talking about. Mr. Trump would do well to avoid painting blacks, Hispanics or any other group with a broad brush. Just as Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel is far removed from the Mexican criminals whom Mr. Trump often highlights, most African-Americans are not dodging bullets every day and praying that our children survive failing schools.
ROLAND NICHOLSON Jr.
Oak Bluffs, Mass.
Note from KBJ: It's good that Roland Nicholson Jr doesn't "claim to speak for African-Americans as a whole," because he most certainly doesn't. Perhaps he should talk to Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, officials of the NAACP, officials of the Urban League, and members of Black Lives Matter, who have been claiming for years that blacks are oppressed, victimized, bullied, impoverished, and sick. Donald Trump is simply pointing out what everyone (except Roland Nicholson Jr) knows.
