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We heard Donald Trump was evil, a racist, sexist homophobe. Little evidence was presented to support this beyond Trump's desire to end illegal immigration and to block a massive influx of refugees from terror hotbeds from entering the United States.

It was all shameful, cynical politics. And some Americans are finally realizing they were lied to by the media and the Democratic Party.

 

Despite the boos for Education Secretary Betsy DeVos at Bethune-Cookman, 

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Trump is a step up from Obama
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Following his inauguration, Trump's most overt outreach to African Americans has been his efforts to woo students and leaders of black colleges that were founded in the years after the Civil War and today consist of 101 public and private schools nationwide. 

"For [

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, people expected him to come in and fix everything -- especially for black people. ... But he never campaigned strongly for HBCUs," said Walter Kimbrough, president of 
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 in New Orleans, using the common abbreviation for the schools.

Now, he says, the reverse has happened -- Trump came in with no expectations placed on him, and some black educators have been pleasantly surprised. "So people now want to see what's going to happen because he's coming in saying he's going to be the president for HBCUs," Kimbrough added. "It's a very different perspective, but it's still the first 150 days, so we'll see what happens."

Johnny C. Taylor Jr., president of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, a nonprofit that helps provide financial assistance to students who attend black colleges, says the signs from the White House are encouraging.

"In the first four months of this presidency, the Trump administration has been far more responsive to our community than the past administration," Taylor said. "I, for one, judge people by what they do -- not what they say."

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