In her increasing desperation to boost lagging turnout among traditionally Democratic young and black voters, Hillary Clinton deployed rapper Jay Z and his wife Beyoncé to the campaign trail Friday night.

The pair, both staunch supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, appeared at a rally/concert in support of Clinton.

“It is utterly despicable that Hillary Clinton would associate herself with such an individual much less have him as a featured guest and performer at her campaign events.”

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Ken Blackwell, former mayor of Cincinnati and the first African-American to be nominated by either party in Ohio for the governorship, was not amused.

“Last night in my home state of Ohio, Hillary Clinton had a rally in which controversial performing artist, Jay Z, parachuted into our state to perform and attempt to energize Ohio Democratic voters,” Blackwell wrote in a Facebook post on Saturday.

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“During his controversial performance, in which he uttered one expletive after another, including vile words attacking women, Jay Z said that Donald Trump was too divisive to be president,” Blackwell continued.

“Yet this is the same ‘artist’ and Clinton supporter, who in his video, ‘No Church In The Wild,’ opens with an unruly mob lighting and tossing Molotov cocktails at police officers, followed by vicious attacks and rioting against those police officers,” Blackwell continued.

“This seems a rather odd Hollywood elitist choice for Mrs. Clinton to fly in and attack Donald Trump as divisive. Jay Z is her idea of displaying unity?” Blackwell wrote. “Once again the clinton [sic] campaign is associating with people who incite violence while blaming the Trump campaign for being divisive. Absurd and sick.”

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Blackwell is surely correct. It is stunning that a candidate whose central campaign theme is “stronger together” would so be so comfortable trotting out pop culture figures who have vilified police.

“It is utterly despicable that Hillary Clinton would associate herself with such an individual much less have him as a featured guest and performer at her campaign events.” Blackwell said. “Jay Z is hardly the role model we want for future generations. His disgusting and vile language and songs, and his own divisive nature, suggest anything but unity.”

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Blackwell said Clinton’s use of Jay Z to rally supporters proves that her presidency would continue the divisive racial politics of the Obama administration. “If featuring someone from the liberal Hollywood elite with such a vile nature, who produces music and videos of mobs attempting to attack and harm our nation’s finest, is Mrs. Clinton’s idea of a call for unity it is nothing short of disgusting and divisive in and of itself,” Blackwell wrote.

“If this is an example of Mrs. Clinton’s rallying cry for unity, electing her president will bring four more years of division and gridlock and utter devastation for our great country,” he said. “Hillary Clinton and the Clinton campaign should be ashamed of themselves and they should apologize to the people of Ohio.”