‘Why Is Every Black Person Given HUD?’: Black Republicans Feel Left Out of Donald Trump’s Virtually All-White Cabinet; Lone Black Nominee to Fill ‘the Literal Black Job of the Administration’
Five months after naming Samuel Pierce secretary of Housing and Urban Development, President Ronald Reagan shook the hand of his lone Black cabinet member and said, “Hello, Mr. Mayor.” Forty-three years later, another Republican president has filled his Cabinet with only one Black nominee, former NFL cornerback and pastor Scott Turner, who would be the…
