Trump was coronated like a “maximum leader”

(Photo: David Paul Morris – Bloomberg)

I learned in journalism school that what you see often is more important than what you hear, so I decided to turn off the television volume during much of the Republican National Convention that proclaimed Donald Trump as the Republican’s presidential candidate, and to take notes. Here is what I saw.

First, it was a sea of white faces. The crowd looked like a reflection of an all-white America that has long ceased to exist. Sure, there were some black, Asian and Latino faces at the arena, but they were so few and far between that the TV cameras seemed go back constantly to the same ones, as if they couldn’t find any others in the crowd.

Actually, the cameras may have had a hard time spotting them: there were only 18 black delegates among the 2, 472 at the convention, according to a Washington Post count of registered delegates. «There are likely fewer black delegates to the Republican convention than at any point in at least a century, » read a July 19 headline in the Washington Post.

It’s no wonder that Trump could draw so few minorities to his coronation in Cleveland: Only 6 percent of black Americans plan to vote for Trump, according to an NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll. In Ohio, the percentage of African-Americans who plan to vote for Trump is zero, according to the same poll.

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