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Groans, laughs and objections immediately followed. “I gotta push back on that,” interjected Al Glay, a real estate agent. “You can’t push back on that!” Thigpen retorted. “Rappers rapped about Trump.” Glay recalled Trump’s statements about five Black and Latino teenagers, now sometimes known as the Exonerated Five , who were wrongly accused and convicted of the 1989 rape of a white jogger in New York’s Central Park. “He was blatantly racist,” he said. “How can you support that?” Another man brushed that off. “They’re all racist anyway.” “You looked your mom in your face, you looked your aunt in the face,” Glay said. “You looked everybody in the face, and you saw Kamala, and you voted for the white man?” The barbershop then briefly erupted. The organization’s efforts were turbocharged after Harris entered the presidential race and concerns spread that Black men wouldn’t enthusiastically back the then-vice president.
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