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Salaam and the other young men had their convictions vacated in 2002 after evidence linked another person to the crime. Trump in 2019 refused to apologize to the exonerated men.
Oh he didn't just refuse to apologize. As you will see if you click through, he did the exact same mealy-mouthed "both sides" thing he did after Charlottesville. And I am sure most black people know exactly what he meant when he said that if they heard it.
In case that’s still not enough discrimination, there’s always this gem:
"Black people like me because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against, and they actually viewed me as I'm being discriminated against."
"The mug shot, we've all seen the mug shot, and you know who embraced it more than anybody else? The Black population. It's incredible," he said.
The utter depth of his stupidity is breathtaking to behold.
Salaam, who won a seat on the New York City Council last year, said he didn’t take pleasure in the former president’s guilty verdict “even though Donald Trump wanted me executed even when it was proven that I was innocent.”
Salaam and the other young men had their convictions vacated in 2002 after evidence linked another person to the crime. Trump in 2019 refused to apologize to the exonerated men.
“We should be proud that today the system worked,” Salaam wrote Thursday on the social media platform X. “But we should be somber that we Americans have an ex-President who has been found guilty on 34 separate felony charges.”
“We have to do better than this. Because we are better than this,” he wrote.
He’s a better man than I.
Agreed. I'm proud and humbled by his measured response, I don't think I could do the same in his shoes.
Thee, not me. Etc.