Billy Porter says Trump would be in jail if he was a black man

Billy Porter says Trump would be in jail if he was a black manBBC Newsnight

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00:00is that we're not telling ourselves the truth and so therefore we can be

00:04blindsided when someone like Trump comes along because we haven't told

00:10ourselves the truth we haven't led with the truth is it a misunderstanding of

00:15what America is about you know when you've got the number of young black men

00:19who voted for Trump last time it wasn't that many but if you look at the stats

00:23three in ten black men under the age of 45 went for Trump that's roughly double

00:27the number in 2020 okay but that's not the story that's not the story that we

00:34need to be focused on we need to be focused I feel on the fact that he's not

00:41in jail I don't care who voted for him what I care about is that our

00:46government did not put that man in jail he should be in jail full stop and if he

00:55was a black man he would be in jail