While Michigan Leaders Speak at DNC, Trump Visits Historically Racist Town of Howell

Democratic leaders from around Michigan are converging on the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week to welcome Vice President Kamala Harris and officially nominate her as the party’s presidential candidate. Meanwhile, Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump visited Howell, Mich. on Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 20, to give a speech on crime and safety, among other issues. Howell is notoriously known as one of the most racist towns in Michigan because of the town’s association with the Ku Klux Klan. In the 1970s, Grand Dragon Robert Miles had a Howell mailing address and held Klan meetings on a nearby farm. In July, white supremacists and KKK members gathered in Howell during a Michigan visit by Trump. During that racist gathering in Howell, they chanted “Heil Hitler” and carried signs reading “White Lives Matter” during a march through downtown Howell. Another group of demonstrators shouted “We love Hitler, we love Trump” from a highway overpass just outside Howell. The Harris campaign has criticized Trump for planning the event in Howell while failing to condemn what it called a “blatant display of racism and antisemitism in his name.”& Livingston County Sheriff Mike Murphy condemned the groups. “Within the last month,...