People For's Markus Batchelor is quoted in The Grio about Black Republicans at the RNC.
During the first night of the Republican National Convention, which officially coronated Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his vice presidential running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance, there were clear attempts to center Black voices.
A host of Black Republicans delivered remarks, including Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, and Reps. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., John James, R-Mich., and Wesley Hunt, R-Texas.
...Markus Batchelor, national political director at People For the American Way, similarly told theGrio that Rose “clearly didn’t check the right sources.”
“From decades of racial discrimination in his real estate ventures to … his ‘good people on both sides’ defense of white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Donald Trump has given us every reason to believe he’s a racist,” said Batchelor. “And if he’s not, the racists sure think he is.”
