From there, the whole thing careened into a rambling thank you to FOX News for its positive coverage of him, a promise to create "safer communities" with increased police presence, and some gloating about his actually-pretty-dismal black-voter numbers.
From there, the whole thing careened into a rambling thank you to FOX News for its positive coverage of him, a promise to create "safer communities" with increased police presence, and some gloating about his actually-pretty-dismal black-voter numbers.
There is something of a conspiracy of silence about blacks' dismal performance in school: silence from black leaders who don't want to be accused of "blaming the victim", silence from teachers who don't want to draw attention to the biggest failure of American education.
At the very least, he must resist the temptation to attribute his dismal showing among black voters to alleged Democratic "race-baiting".
Donald Trump has made the most direct appeal of his campaign to African American voters as he battles to offset dismal polling among black voters and draw political capital from a recent spate of racially charged unrest in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Aides say that Mr. Bush had a dismal showing among blacks in his first campaign for Texas governor but rebounded four years later with about a fifth of the African-American vote.
My Chambers says: "Black: obscure; dismal; sullen; bad-tempered; angry; horrible; grotesque".
It isn't even possible to know whether the performance of black students, dismal in the past, has improved: the government no longer analyses examination results by race.
There were several routine westerns, modest thrillers including Jacques Tourneur's Nightfall, plus the dismal The Girl in Black Silk Stockings (1957).
Professor Sum and his colleagues got closer than official statistics usually get to the dismal employment reality of black men by using the so-called employment-population ratio, which represents the percentage of a given population that is employed at a given time.
It's not simply the numbers that paint a dismal picture of diminished black fortunes in Hollywood.
