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Postby KEND on Wed Aug 23, 2017 5:04 pm

During a recent trump rally I noticed a black guy behind trump with a 'blacks for TRump sign. I assumed he was a shill but his story is more bizarre than you could imagine

The strange story of that ‘Blacks for Trump’ guy standing behind POTUS at his Phoenix rally
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The Washington Post
Katie Mettler
The man behind the ‘Blacks for Trump’ signs has an interesting past
At a number of political rallies over the last two years, a character calling himself “Michael the Black Man” has appeared in the crowd directly behind Donald Trump, impossible to miss and possibly planted.
He holds signs that scream “BLACKS FOR TRUMP” and wears a T-shirt proclaiming with equal conviction that “TRUMP & Republicans Are Not Racist.”
Almost always, he plugs his wild website, Gods2.com, across his chest.
And so it was Tuesday night, before a crowd of Trump supporters in Phoenix who had come to watch another show. There was the president, whipping up the wildly cheering crowd, and then there was Michael the Black Man, chanting just beyond Trump’s right shoulder in that trademark T-shirt.
The presence of Michael the Black Man — variously known as Michael Symonette, Maurice Woodside and Mikael Israel — has inspired not only trending Twitter hashtags but a great deal of curiosity and Google searches. Internet sleuths find the man’s bizarre URL, a easily-accessible gateway to his strange and checkered past.
The radical fringe activist from Miami once belonged to a violent black supremacist religious cult and 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, he says, is the devil.
Most curiously, in the 1990s, he was charged, then acquitted, with conspiracy to commit two murders.
But Michael the Black Man loves President Trump. And President Trump’s campaign apparently loves him right back.
© The Washington Post Michael the Black Man, as he calls himself, stands behind President Trump during a campaign rally in Phoenix on Tuesday.
It’s unclear if the White House or President Trump’s campaign officials are aware of Michael the Black Man’s turbulent history or extreme political views, but he and his followers have stumped for the president at his inauguration and the Super Bowl.
In July, he posted video footage of himself at the Mar-a-Lago Club, President Trump’s so-called “Winter White House,” for the Republican Party of Palm Beach County’s annual Lincoln Day Dinner.
Wearing a black dinner coat over a white “BLACKS FOR TRUMP” T-shirt, Michael the Black Man posed with the local GOP’s chairman, apparently took a photo of first lady Melania Trump and recorded a selfie video that showed his arm slung over the shoulder of Florida Gov. Rick Scott.
“I saw you on TV with Trump,” Scott can be heard telling Michael the Black Man. “You did a good job.”
At a campaign rally in late October 2016, down in Sanford, Fla., Trump even gave the “BLACKS FOR TRUMP” signs an approving shout-out.
“Look at those signs behind me,” Trump said to the roaring crowd. “Blacks for Trump. I like those signs.”
The candidate, wearing a camouflage “Make America Great Again hat,” turned to the sign-holders and offered a thumbs-up. Michael the Black Man, standing behind Trump and grinning widely, gave a thumbs-up right back.
“Blacks for Trump,” the candidate said again. “You watch. You watch. Those signs are great, thank you.”
The signs drew national attention at the time, but not because of Michael the Black Man. Rally watchers came away perplexed after one event when white women were seen waving the signs. That same month, New York Magazine and the Miami New Times published articles recounting the sign maker’s story.
Before he started calling himself Michael the Black Man, the man identified as Maurice Woodside. Around 1980, he joined a cult led by Hulon Mitchell Jr., who went by Yahweh Ben Yahweh and eventually turned violent, reported the New Times. The two men met when Woodside was 21 years old.
Woodside followed Yahweh’s fiery teachings for years, even after the leader allegedly denied his dying, cancer-stricken mother medical treatment and instead prescribed her “vegetables, nuts, and herbs,” prosecutors once said in court, according to the New Times.
In the early 1990s, the New Times reported, Woodside, Yahweh and 14 other members of the cult were arrested by federal agents and charged with racketeering and conspiracy in 14 murders and a firebombing, reported the New Times.
Ricardo Woodside, Maurice’s brother, had once been in the cult but left after his mother’s death. Woodside testified in court that his brother had helped beat a man named Aston Green, who argued with Yahweh and was taken to the Florida Everglades and beheaded with a dull machete, reported the New Times.
He also testified that Maurice Woodside was the cult member who stabbed a Louisiana man named Leonard Dupree in the eye with a sharpened stick.
Yahweh was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Maurice Woodside, who denies the cult was violent or murderous, was acquitted along with six others.
“You know why I wasn’t scared?” Woodside told the New Times in 2011, speaking of those charges. “Because Yahweh wasn’t scared!”
In later years, Woodside changed his name to Maurice Symonette. Eventually, he became Michael the Black Man, an anti-Democrat — or as he calls them, Demon-crat — who preaches the Bible and abhors homosexuality. He started a private radio station, BOSS 104.1 FM, to broadcast his radical beliefs, and began causing a ruckus in public.
At an Obama campaign speech in Coral Gables, Fla., in 2008, he and a group of other protesters loudly interrupted the future president, shouting “Barack, go home!” and waving signs that declared “Obama endorsed by the KKK,” reported the Miami New Times.
One sign, held by Michael the Black Man, read: “Blacks against Obama.”
His website, Gods2.com, proclaims on the landing page: “LATIN, BLACK AND WHITE MUST UNITE!”
Links on that site lead to another one, honestfact.com, which claims that the “Real KKK Slave Masters” are “CHEROKEE Indians (Hidden Babylonians).”
The proclamations only get more unhinged from there: “ISIS AND HILLARY RACE WAR PLOT TO KILL ALL BLACK & WHITE WOMAN OF AMERICA WITH MS-13.”
And: “YAHWEH BEN YAHWEH Taught Us To Vote Republican & is Now VINDICATED.”
And: “BLACKS FOR TRUMP SUPPORTS SENATOR JEFF SESSIONS”
The site also displays a photo of a Confederate flag with the caption: “Cherokee Democratic Flag.”
Under the name Maurice Symonette, Michael the Black Man has posted many videos to YouTube. One, from February 2017, is titled “BLACKS FOR TRUMP calling Trump” and shows Michael the Black Man giving a message for the president.
He told Trump he was proud of him for winning the election, saying he “conquered the Kingdom of Babylon and delivered everybody out of the sure hands of death.” Then he said he felt like his movement had been left behind in the wake of victory.
“Here we are, the lone Blacks for Trump,” he said in the video. “We’re the helpless. We just helped you by standing behind you.”
But in Phoenix Tuesday night, Michael the Black Man seemed at peace with his president. As supporters chanted “build that wall!,” Trump turned to the roaring crowd behind him and flashed a thumbs up.
Michael the Black Man flashed one back. Then he smiled and mouthed, “I love you!”
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Re: Blacks for Trump

Postby everything on Wed Aug 23, 2017 5:37 pm

Truth is stranger than fiction.
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Re: Blacks for Trump

Postby Bill on Wed Aug 23, 2017 7:03 pm

Can I join?. I'm transracial.
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Re: Blacks for Trump

Postby Michael on Wed Aug 23, 2017 7:29 pm

As long as you can braid your hair and bronze your skin, you're in.

The following week you can declare yourself a 6 y.o. girl and win a Girl Scout Cookie sell-a-thon, or a power lifting comp.
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Re: Blacks for Trump

Postby Bill on Wed Aug 23, 2017 7:33 pm

First you enslave my ancestors and now you laugh at me.
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Re: Blacks for Trump

Postby Steve James on Wed Aug 23, 2017 7:44 pm

Rachel Donezal probably wouldn't, but you can try. Anyway, google "Black KKK" member, and go to images. There are a few.

Well, a guy holding a sign in the plural should have at least a few fellows around. If you ask me, the signs seem totally phony. For one thing, a woman doesn't need to hold up a sign saying "women for" anyone. We can see you're a woman. The same goes for most "Black" people. For him, holding a sign just illustrates a scarcity. In fact,
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I'll bet she never went to his website, though.

Otoh, it's nice to see the fervor. He's still campaigning. And, really, can you blame that Black guy for supporting Trump? He knows that it's a get out of jail free card. Ask (ex-Sheriff) Joe Arpaio (the one with proof Obama was born in Kenya). There's a method to his madness. Edit: and it sure must have generated a few more hits ;).
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Re: Blacks for Trump

Postby Steve James on Wed Aug 23, 2017 7:48 pm

Bill wrote:First you enslave my ancestors and now you laugh at me.


Yeah, reminds me of


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4oCL99mrRk
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Re: Blacks for Trump

Postby RobP3 on Thu Aug 24, 2017 1:19 am

Stockholm syndrome? Unaware of history? Who knows

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Re: Blacks for Trump

Postby Steve James on Thu Aug 24, 2017 6:57 am

It's only strange to see a Black KKK supporter if one thinks it's about race and not human psychology. It blows the racialist's mind. They can easily see, for ex., a white Brit Nazi supporter. If it's a Pakistani, they are confused. The idea of Black Nazis (in the German army no less) is extraordinary. The idea of race makes it hard for them to see that there were Jews who worked for Hitler. It's hard because they can't understand that those Jews saw themselves as Germans. Anyway, https://www.amazon.com/Black-Nazis-Vero ... 1934703516
There were even Black (by American standard) people in Nazi Germany. Their children wanted to belong to the Hitler Youth, like their friends. A great story is that of Hans Jurgen Massaquoi. Here's a picture of him on his first day of school.
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He made his grandmom sew the swastika on. His mom ripped it off when he got home. But, it's about what was in his head.
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Re: Blacks for Trump

Postby Michael on Thu Aug 24, 2017 7:33 am

RobP3 wrote:Stockholm syndrome? Unaware of history? Who knows


I watched the whole video. He didn't want to explain in this interview how or why, but he said we've been told lies about National Socialism and that Hitler didn't really want to rule the world [because] National Socialism is about the natural order of things based on a hierarchy and that govt should let people live with their own kind. From this little video, he's just saying he has his own beliefs about National Socialism and that it's his right. He also said he hates no one, loves every one and expects love from every one.
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Re: Blacks for Trump

Postby Steve James on Thu Aug 24, 2017 8:10 am

We watched the video :). What exactly is your point Michael? Correct me, but I thought RobP's point was that this guy's support of National Socialism (even considering himself one) was ironic. What'd you think?

Anyway, for me it's ironic given that he lives in the US. I wonder if it lives with the National Socialists he considers "us." But, it's totally understandable psychologically. The whole idea of the Stockholm syndrome is that the victim begins to identify with his captor. It's not an intentional "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" mentality. I mean, if you don't want to be on the bottom of the hierarchy tree, one solution is to identify. And, even if one is the lowest category, one can always believe that one is the best of the lesser.
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Re: Blacks for Trump

Postby Michael on Thu Aug 24, 2017 8:27 am

If the video was watched then it's obvious he is aware of history, and for apparent fear of becoming a sound bite casualty he revealed so little of his belief that I think it's tough to say he has a particular condition like Stockholm Syndrome.

If the video was watched and heard him say, "I love everyone and expect everyone to love me," maybe there would be a different reaction than what you and Rob posted since it sounds like his interpretation of National Socialism is a little different from the stereotypical, genocidal Nazi.
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Re: Blacks for Trump

Postby Steve James on Thu Aug 24, 2017 8:42 am

You mean, if we just cited him saying "I love everyone ..." there would be a different reaction? Sorry, I don't understand how that makes sense. It's like "if you take out everything Nazis say about Jews and Blacks, people will have a different reaction." You're right. If all they said was love everyone, people would react differently. There's only one tiny little problem: that's not all they say or do.

Sure, not all Nazis are genocidal. Some even marry Jews. They're just like Muslims.

Oh, and yeah, he knows the history, but doesn't want to become a sound bite by acknowledging that what "allegedly" happened was wrong.
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Re: Blacks for Trump

Postby RobP3 on Thu Aug 24, 2017 9:36 am

Michael wrote: it sounds like his interpretation of National Socialism is a little different from the stereotypical, genocidal Nazi.


That's why I said maybe he isn't so aware of history - or at least is going for an "alternative" view of history. I wasn't aware of the kind, cuddly Nazis who gave everyone hugs and flowers, maybe I missed that class at school
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Re: Blacks for Trump

Postby Michael on Thu Aug 24, 2017 3:52 pm

My point is that maybe you don't really know what he believes and he put forward an argument about the armband to which you haven't responded. From my point of view, if he believes in National Socialism he's wrong politically, but he's correct in saying he does have the right to wear the armband. I'm a little curious how the "love everyone" and National Socialism can coexist in one person's mind, but mores o I think it's okay to just let him be.
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