Todays Donkey of The Day for Thursday, August, 16th goes to Gina Loudon who serves on Donald Trump 2020 Campaign Media Advisory Board, for making the absurd claim that previous presidents didn't need black employees to abolish slavery.
Special guest today Angela Rye who was talking with Gina Loudon when she said these comments gave her Donkey because on CNN Loundon said:
"What disappoints me is the division and the fact that we're having to count people based on their skin color. I don't like that ... you know, you look back on our history, and we have a pretty amazing history of overcoming slavery, of expanding civil rights, of women's rights, and a lot of those things happened under American presidents who didn't have any minorities at all on their White Houses.
Thank God we do. I looked over the list of the people that I know there and about one third of them are a minority or a woman. Those are great strides. Could they be better? Absolutely ..."
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