President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has released what it’s calling a “new deal for Black America.” The entertainment website MediaTakeOut published the 10-point document late last week, not long before it was announced that Steve Bannon, Trump’s campaign chair, editor in chief of Breitbart.com, and champion of the views of “alt-right” white supremacists, would become his chief strategist.
Given Trump’s decades-long history of expressions of racism and allegations of racial discrimination, it’s unsurprising the document is both bursting with stereotypes and lacking in substance.
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