At a rally in June 2016, Donald Trump sought to demonstrate his support among African Americans in a uniquely Trumpian way—by pointing to a black man in the crowd and telling the largely white crowd assembled, “Look at my African American over here. Look at him. Are you the greatest?” At the time, Gregory Cheadle said he took no offense to the then-candidate’s bizarre “my” description, but three years later, he no longer supports the president. Why? It starts with a “un-” and ends with an “-ambiguous racism.”

Speaking to PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor, Cheadle, a 62-year-old real estate broker, said that he’s ditching Trump, as well as the entire Republican Party, after coming to the realization that the GOP is all about a “pro-white agenda” that uses black people like himself as “political pawns.” According to Alcindor, the straw that broke the camel’s back for Cheadle was watching Republicans line up to defend Trump’s racist attacks on four freshman congresswoman of color who he told to “go back” to “the crime-infested places from which they came,” as well has his attacks on Representative Elijah Cummings, whose Baltimore district Trump described in a series of rants as “disgusting, rat and rodent infested” where “no human being would want to live.”

“President Trump is a rich guy who is mired in white privilege to the extreme,” Cheadle, who has been a Republican since 2001, told Alcindor. “Republicans are too sheepish to call him out on anything and they are afraid of losing their positions and losing any power themselves.” Referring to online posts written by Republican Facebook friends defending Trump’s racist statement, Cheadle said “They were sidestepping the people of color issue and saying that, ‘No, it’s not racist,’” he said. “They were saying these people were socialists and communists. That’s what they were saying. And I thought this is a classic case of whites not seeing racism because they want to put blinders on and make it about something else.”

While the loss of a single supporter may not hurt Trump—who frequently claims he’s “done more for African Americans” than any other president—as a black backer Cheadle was part of an extremely teeny-tiny club. In 2016, Trump won a mere 8% of the black vote. Currently, his approval rating among African American voters is at 10%. That probably has to do with the whole racism thing—which isn’t new at all—as well as policies like the one he’s hoping to push through before 2020 that would make mortgages more expensive for black people, among other minorities.

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