This Isn't Funny

[Content Note: Racism; appropriation.]

This image was going around Twitter yesterday, getting lots of laughs.


[Image in tweet shows Donald Trump at a rally, with a crowd behind him, one part of which is an older woman who appears to be white holding up a sign reading "Blacks for Trump."]

This is not funny. It's appropriative garbage. And it's even worse than that: This rally took place in Sanford, Florida—which is the town in which Trayvon Martin was killed.

Trayvon's mother, Sybrina Fulton, is (as I mentioned on Monday) on the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton.

Meanwhile, Trump is holding a rally in the town where her son was killed.

And a white woman is holding up a "Blacks for Trump" sign.

Yeah.

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