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“WISGOP,” the sign says. “Republican Party of Wisconsin Community Center.”
“That’s strange, ain’t it?” said Isaac Dickey of Milwaukee, who was walking in the area. “That (stuff) makes no sense. This is a Black neighborhood.”
But despite the Republican National Convention taking place literally down the street, and Trump regularly boasting that African Americans are supporting him in greater and greater numbers, the Republican Community Center wasn’t open Sunday.
Or Monday.
“CLOSED, Please Call Again” read a sign hung from the front door.
Asked what the GOP Community Center does, Sharon Bowens, sitting on the community center’s window sill, didn’t know.
“You know what, I was wondering about that myself,” she told Raw Story. “I didn’t think nothing of it in the beginning. It used to be a Subway here. It’s a good sitting spot, I’ll tell you that. I never seen nobody in there. Never.”
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Did the owner of the building give permission for the signs to be out up?
There's a question for the journalists.
“That’s strange, ain’t it?” said Isaac Dickey of Milwaukee, who was walking in the area. “That (stuff) makes no sense. This is a Black neighborhood.”
But despite the Republican National Convention taking place literally down the street, and Trump regularly boasting that African Americans are supporting him in greater and greater numbers, the Republican Community Center wasn’t open Sunday.
Or Monday.
“CLOSED, Please Call Again” read a sign hung from the front door.
Asked what the GOP Community Center does, Sharon Bowens, sitting on the community center’s window sill, didn’t know.
“You know what, I was wondering about that myself,” she told Raw Story. “I didn’t think nothing of it in the beginning. It used to be a Subway here. It’s a good sitting spot, I’ll tell you that. I never seen nobody in there. Never.”
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Republicans opened a ‘Black Community Center’ in Milwaukee. It’s not going well.
MILWAUKEE — About a mile north of where Republicans will nominate Donald Trump for president, in a neighborhood where most residents are Black, a storefront with big windows and brightly colored signs stood as a curiosity to people waiting at a bus stop just outside along Dr. Martin Luther King...
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Did the owner of the building give permission for the signs to be out up?
There's a question for the journalists.