AP | For years, Omarosa Manigault Newman stood at Donald Trump’s side,
making her deeply unpopular with African-Americans who see her as a
sellout for aligning herself with a president who has hurled one insult
after another at black people.
Her falling out with Trump and her decision to call him a racist as
she sells her new book — and in turn, his calling her a “dog” — have not
been enough for many African-Americans to invite her back to the family
picnic.
Too little, too late, many said.
“Her tell-all mea culpa won’t win her any brownie points with most
blacks,” said Earl Ofari Hutchinson, author of the book “Why Black Lives
Do Matter.” ″Their loathing of Omarosa is virtually frozen in stone.
She’s still roundly lambasted as a two-bit opportunist, a racial sellout
and an ego driven hustler.”
Few in the black community immediately rushed to defend Manigault
Newman after she wrote a book titled “Unhinged” about her time in the
White House. It paints a damning picture of Trump, claiming without
evidence that tapes exist of him using the N-word as he filmed “The
Apprentice” reality series, on which she co-starred.
She has since stepped up her attacks on Trump as she promotes her
book, telling The Associated Press on Tuesday that the president is “a
racist, a misogynist, a bigot.”
“I want to see this nation united as opposed to divided,” she said. “I don’t want to see a race war, as Donald Trump does.”
The deep hostility that African-Americans harbor for Manigault Newman
stems largely from her defense of the president or her public silence
as he repeatedly attacked the American citizenship of former President
Barack Obama; insulted various minority groups and described some
African nations as “shithole” countries. He has also insulted prominent
blacks like U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters and NBA superstar LeBron James, said
that “many sides” are to blame for the violence at last year’s white
nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and ripped
African-American athletes for protesting racial injustice.
