For years, the same guy has been standing behind Trump at his rallies.

[fightforfreedom]

He must be on Trumps payroll. He always wears the same white shirt, Blacks For Trump. That's Trumps way of trying to con black people. It doesn't work. I wonder how many people Trump pays to attend his rallies.

[walkingman]

1. In my wildest dreams I cannot see a black person supporting Trump? For what reason?

He is the personification of a white supremacist.

[fightforfreedom]

4. I believe I read a long time ago he belonged to some cult.

[Salviati]

15. I guess now he belongs to a different cult.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. I can name one:

The Republican candidate for the 9th congressional district in NJ. QAnon to boot.

[dalton99a]

2. His name is Maurice Symonette

Michael the Black Man's real name is Maurice Symonette. The 62-year-old has also gone by Michael Symonette, Maurice Woodside and Mikael Israel. He remains a devotee of Yahweh Ben Yahweh, aka Hulon Mitchell, who led a successful Black supremacist cult that ran businesses and charities before his conviction for conspiracy to commit murder. Symonette himself was acquitted of two grisly murders.

https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/michael-the-black-man-stirs-passions-at-the-polls/article_b33df324-3731-11ec-b865-3fbf0146a5bf.html

[fightforfreedom]

5. Thanks for the reminder.

[GoCubsGo]

11. Also note that he always wears a BlacksforTrump.com t-shirt.

That web site goes to his own cult's web page. He's only there to promote his web site. It's a mutual benefit arrangement. He gets free ad space. Trump gets some cover for his racism.

[walkingman]

12. Wow, the more I read the more I want to isolate myself from society.

[Jade Fox]

3. Black people don't call themselves "Blacks"....

I've always found that t-shirt suspect. It seems just like something Trump and his people would think up.

[albacore]

13. Very white person here....What word would most black Americans rather see used to describe them? nt

[Jade Fox]

16. That would be a question for a Black person.....

All I know is I've never heard an African American use the term "Blacks".

[Cartoonist]

17. So only white people say Black Lives Matter?

I could have sworn I've seen poc wearing t-shirts with that slogan on them.

[Jade Fox]

19. That's not what I said....

What I said is I've never heard Black people use the term"Blacks"to define themselves as a group.

[fightforfreedom]

21. American.

[fightforfreedom]

7. I wonder how many people who stand behind Trump are paid.

Trump has done this since the day he came down the escalator.

[Liberal In Texas]

14. There were some threads about that over the years here.

Don't have any other links, but it seems that they have advertised for "blacks" to attend the rallies wearing a supplied shirt and they get paid.

[sop]

8. I think that's Michael Symonette, aka Maurice Woodside or Mikael Israel.

Michael is a "radical fringe activist from Miami who once belonged to a violent black supremacist religious cult." He "runs a handful of amateur, unintelligible conspiracy websites. He has called Barack Obama 'The Beast' and Hillary Clinton a Ku Klux Klan member. Oprah Winfrey, he says, is the devil...Most curiously, in the 1990s, he was charged, then acquitted, with conspiracy to commit two murders."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/23/the-strange-story-of-that-blacks-for-trump-guy-standing-behind-potus-at-his-phoenix-rally/

[fightforfreedom]

9. Trumps base.

[Ocelot II]

10. Every group of humans has its share of weirdos, and a Black person who supports TFG,

especially so publicly and enthusiastically, definitely qualifies as a weirdo.

[Meadowoak]

18. I believe that the people at his rallies, the ones in the bleachers

That sit behind him, are ALL paid astroturf. I've seen many of the same faces over and over.

[Wednesdays]

20. Too bad "Plaid Shirt Guy" isn't a regular at all TFG's rallies!

[keithbvadu2]

22. Blacks for Trump?