So, CIA shared a screenshot of
this article, complaining that Trump has no black people among his senior staff now that Omarosa left, and only one in his cabinet.
The thing is, black people make up 13% of the population and 1-4% of college graduates (I cannot find convincing numbers on this), and support the Democrats by a ratio of greater than 9:1. While black college graduates seem more likely to support Republicans than black non-college-graduates, I strongly suspect that black Republicans constitute less than 1% of all college graduates. So Trump has a very limited pool of black people to draw on, and
still appointed the two black people he knew personally—Omarosa and Ben Carson—in Carson's case to a position he is appallingly unqualified for.
The complaint is essentially that Trump is not engaged in race-based affirmative action
enough: he did not go out of his way to promote black people he does not know personally out of proportion to the pool he is drawing on, and that makes him a bigot. Now, as a white person who opposes race-based affirmative action, it pisses me off that it leads so many people in liberal circles to assume any white person who does so is a bigot. But it also is not something I care about much, so I usually save my strength to pick fights I actually care about. However here it is really annoying for two reasons.
Firstly, Trump actually is a bigot, but if you say: "Look, he doesn't engage in race-based affirmative action to the degree that other presidents do; that means he is a bigot," that suggests you have no actual evidence of his bigotry. It is a bit like saying that Robert Mugabe's Hitler mustache proves he was an evil dictator: he
was an evil dictator, but that is extremely underwhelming evidence for it.
Secondly, the issue glosses over a greater problem in the Trump administration: Trump does not promote anyone who does not wholeheartedly agree with him. Both Obama and W. appointed a few members of the opposing party to their cabinets, and the expectation was that Trump would too, likely Democrats in red states like Heidi Heitkamp or Joe Manchin in order to secure their seats for the GOP. And yet Trump could not even bring himself to do
that. Trump cannot even stand Republicans who argue with him too much. If Trump had been willing to do the normal thing, he might have scored his party an extra Senate seat or two
and would have had a much larger pool of qualified black people to chose from. The fact that he was not is problematic, because it proves that Trump places personal loyalty above all else.