Advertisement - story continues below
Joey Salads had the thought: What would happen if a car festooned with Donald Trump stickers were left, seemingly abandoned, in a black neighborhood?
And so, like many of his other questions about life that end up as YouTube videos, the popular social media star went ahead, noting at the start of the video that his latest "social experiment"[1] showed that "a lot of black people don't like Trump."
Advertisement - story continues below
The video begins with the car, bearing New York State plates and parked not far from other New York-licensed vehicles, sitting in a parking lot with Trump stickers affixed to its exterior and a red "Make America Great Again" hat on the dashboard. Salads did not say exactly where the video was shot.
The video says 30 minutes went by from the time the bait was left to the time it attracted interest.
A man looks at the car, giving it the once-over as he complains about the car and about the Trump stickers, one of which he balls up and tosses to the parking lot pavement.
Advertisement - story continues below
He takes a look inside, ruminating aloud, "We're going to see what's inside the car here."
The man returns with four compatriots, who express surprise that the car is open, and then proceed to tear at the car with a frenzy.
More Trump signs are torn. Although one man who picked up a piece of metal with which to smash in a window finds the tool not up to the job, another who uses a rock is more successful.
Soon the car is all but windowless, the Trump signs are in tatters, and the men, with more than one look over their shoulders, leave hurriedly.
Advertisement - story continues below
"Get out of here with that Trump bulls—," one man's voice proclaims.
Salads then reappears in the video to drive home his point.
"As you can see from this video, the black community is very violent towards Trump and his supporters," he said.
"As I was filming this video, there were people shouting out their windows, 'F— Trump,'" he said.
Salads said the Republican presidential candidate had some supporters, but they were not going to stand up and tell the world about it.
"After filming I talked to some of the spectators who are black, who said that they did low-key support Trump, but they were afraid of the backlash from their community," he said[2].
What do you think? Scroll down to comment below.
References
- ^ "social experiment" (www.dailymail.co.uk)
- ^ said (www.facebook.com)
