President Barack Obama scolded Donald Trump for his bleak description of the African-American community as recent police shootings of black men — and the violent protests that followed them — inject sensitive questions about race into the presidential contest. “What we have to do is use our history to propel us to make even more progress in the future,” Obama said. Trump’s campaign later suggested he was talking about America’s drug problem in general, not the protests that dominated cable news coverage the night before. Trump has spent the last several weeks asking black Americans for their support and asserting that Obama has failed the black community, but those appeals have been undermined at times. On Thursday, the Trump campaign accepted the resignation of an Ohio volunteer, Mahoning County chair Kathy Miller, who told the Guardian newspaper, “I don’t think there was any racism until Obama got elected.”

Source: Hindustan Times September 23, 2016 16:07 UTC