In the 2024 Election, President Donald Trump garnered 16% of the Black vote, double the amount from the 2020 (8%). In a new poll published earlier this week by AtlastIntel from January 21-23rd, 69% of Black voters so far approve of President Trump’s performance.
President Trump has come out the gate with “shock and awe,” signing a plethora of Executive Orders and taking action against the immigration crisis that is wearing down major metropolitan areas and testing the limits of their constituents, especially minority citizens.
In his first term, President Trump championed the Black community by signing long-term funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), securing them $255 million in annual, permanent funding and forgiving $322 million in disaster loans for a handful of schools.
He signed the First Steps Act, which reduced mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenses and granting credits for good behavior. Almost 90% of those impacted by this law were Black.
President Trump also created Opportunity Zones, bringing in billions of dollars in private investment to help ignite economic growth in many minority communities. He brought Black unemployment to an all-time low, advocated for school choice programs, and established a $1 billion fund for minority-owned businesses though the Commerce Department.
But the high approval rating, the doubling of vote share among Blacks, and the promise to be a President for all American citizens didn’t dissuade the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts from going full-blown political with a race-baiting billboard depicting John Lewis and protesters being confronted by Alabama State Troopers in the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” march.
According to 1819News.com:
Billboards apparently sponsored by the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts have popped up in the Montgomery area, featuring President Donald Trump’s popular “Make America Great Again” slogan pasted over a picture of the infamous Bloody Sunday in Selma.
The photo appeared on at least one billboard observed by 1819 News, but other reports state identical billboards are scattered throughout the county; all featuring the name of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) pasted at the bottom. . .
Pull their funding. They have too much money if they can afford billboards
Yeah, If they are getting public funding why are they spending it on something like this?
Let them get their own funding.
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