The Five Brothers Got Left Behind!

Trump left the brothers behind.

The four Black Republican U.S. House members serving currently represent majority White districts. They are there because the Democrats have little chance of unseating them thanks to gerrymandering and counties friendly to Donald J. Trump and previous Republican presidential candidates.

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), Rep. John James (R-MI), Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) and Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) are going to serve another term in the Congress.

They make up 3% of the Republican Party's racial quota. 

The House members are 5% Hispanic, 2% Native American, 2% Asian American, 2% Pacific Islander, 4% Black and 1% other.

So about 16% of the House member is a person of color. 84% of the Republican Party's House members are white.

The Democratic Party has 72% white, 10% Hispanic, 8% Black, 4% Asian, 1% Native American and 5% other. The Democrats claim the first Black president, first Black vice president, first transgender U.S. House member, first woman House Speaker, first Black top leadership, and the first party to switch from far right policies to progressive achievements (which Republicans love to claim decades later).

Republicans have one Black senator. Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) is the sole member.

Democrats will have four Black senators come Jan. 2025. 

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) and Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD).  Blunt Rochester and Alsobrooks will join Laphonza Butler, Carol Mosley Braun and Kamala Harris as the few Black women to be U.S. Senators. Harris is the current and outgoing Vice President of the United States.

President-elect Donald J. Trump only has one Black person in his new cabinet.

He picked Scott Turner, a former NFL player turned Republican activist to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development. 

It leaves the question, did Black MAGAland get left out of the picnic?

Scott Turner with Trump in 2019 during his first term.

For every Black entertainer, athlete, politician, activist, religious leader, business executive, voter and social media influencer who backed Trump, was this justified?

Y'all voted for this!

What do you have to say about this?

You want no DEI in the cabinet.

Y'all allowed Trump to pick Mehmet Oz, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Pete Hegseth, Linda McMahon and Stephen Miller. None of these people should be anywhere close to the White House, but they are skirting by the FBI and are willing to be the "yes men" to a semi-idiotic authoritarian. I was going to say the "R with the tart", but I respect the special needs community.

Not saying down the line, Trump may nominate one of these folks. It may take some time. The Senate who confirms nominees already having issues with Pete Hegseth, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Kash Patel. 

Who knows?

Trump promised to eliminate DEI from companies. Walmart, Lowes and other companies quickly abandoned their programs.