Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” Princeton University professor and network contributor Eddie Glaude, Jr. claimed President Donald Trump’s “dark” supporters enjoy Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers acting like “slave catchers.”
Glaude said, “Folk have their red meat, now that they’re going to see the spectacle of quote, unquote ‘L.A. on fire,’ which it’s not right. What will happen? Will that activate the ugliness that got him in office in the first place? Will folk now declare why they love him? Because we know that he’s always good on the immigration question.”
He continued, “This reminds me historically of, it’s not a clear analogy, but when the nation when these these political factions divided the nation in between between slaveholders and slave catchers, when they made ever