"Young black leaders" with MAGA hats at the WH? Is this a fake group? Paid actors? What?

[Hekate]

Does anyone know if they really exist in the form we were presented?

It was bizarre.

[joshcryer]

1. Useful idiots.

While not necessarily directly paid, they're profiting off of it in some way (local networking, local connections, possibly had the trip paid for, etc).

[leftstreet]

2. What do they 'lead?'

Are they the heads of groups or something?

[Hekate]

4. Thus my question. Apparently no black journalists were allowed in the room, for one thing.

Who the hell are they that we only get to see the backs of their heads as they wave their hats around and yell MAGA slogans like "CNN sucks!"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. It's a real group.

From the web site: "Turning Point USA’s Young Black Leadership Summit is a conference for young, conservative blacks between the ages of 15 and 35. YBLS 2018 will be hosted October 25-28, 2018 in Washington, D.C. Throughout the Summit, attendees will hear from some of the nation’s most well-known conservative leaders and activists, receive first-class professional development and leadership training, and network with other attendees and organizations from all across the country."

Ben Carson is one of the speakers.

Turning Point USA is a right-wing youth group that is being monitored by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which keeps track of hate groups, because TPUSA has been playing footsie with the alt-right, and they've been infiltrating college organizations. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/02/16/turning-point-usas-blooming-romance-alt-right

[Hekate]

6. Thank you very much, Ocelot

[LiberalFighter]

10. They could only get Carson? No respectable black person?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. Respectable black people aren't Republicans - not any more.

[ProudLib72]

14. Way to militate against your own self interests

Unfucking believable

[riversedge]

5. they are: Young Black Leadership Summit, a project of a far-right group called Turning Point USA.

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I was just going to post this..


http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/after-arrest-mail-bomb-case-trump-doesnt-lower-the-temperature

After arrest in mail bomb case, Trump doesn’t lower the temperature


10/26/18 02:33 PM—Updated 10/26/18 03:49 PM
By Steve Benen

On Twitter this morning, as Americans learned about two additional packages containing explosive devices, Donald Trump complained via Twitter about “bomb stuff” interfering with Republicans’ election strategy.

Soon after, as a suspect in the case was taken into custody, the president addressed the Young Black Leadership Summit, a project of a far-right group called Turning Point USA. The timing was less than ideal: Turning Point USA is led by an activist named Candace Owens – who just this week dismissed the packages as an election scheme hatched by “leftists.”

Trump today called Owens “incredible,” which I suppose is true, in a rather literal sense.

As part of the same remarks, the president initially tried to say the right things, reading from his teleprompter that Americans “must show the world that we are united together in peace and love and harmony.” And soon after, Trump suggested he didn’t mean a word of it:

“Every citizen benefits when we stop foreign countries from cheating our workers, that’s what they’ve been doing, you know? They’re called globalists, they like – they like the globe. I like the globe, too. I like the globe, too, but we have to take care of our people. We have to.”

When some in the audience shouted, “George Soros” and, “Lock ‘em up,” the president chuckled briefly and repeated the “lock ‘em up” line.

Also as part of the remarks, Trump took aim at Democrats about 20 times, including arguing, “For decades, policies advanced by Democrats have eliminated opportunity and wiped out good paying jobs and even great paying jobs for the black community, you know that.”...........................

Link to tweet

[Hekate]

7. Thank you also, riversedge

[riversedge]

15. you bet.

[Blue Owl]

8. Ben Carson's flunkie camp?

n/t

[dalton99a]

9. They're with a RW organization called Turning Point USA:

https://www.tpusa.com/ybls2018/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA

[Hekate]

11. Link to Black Media Banned thread

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211327139

[cwydro]

13. Everyone here loves to think all blotus supporters are backwoods Cletus types.

Sadly, I know black people, gay people, Hispanic people, some rich and educated, some not - who supported this travesty.

DU’s idea of a rump supporter is erroneous.

[defacto7]

16. I also know people who don't fit the cliche too.

I think the DU portrayal most of the time is a flippant cliché but it's not necessarily erroneous, it's just not the whole story. We really need to remember that the RW isn't so simply defined.