Michael Symonette - Blacks for Trump

August 17

from 2018

Michael Symonette (also known as Maurice Woodside) was the guy holding the 'Blacks For Trump' sign seen behind Trump on many of his campaign appearances on the 2016 trail. In this interview he talks about his beliefs, his trust in Donald Trump and why more black people should support Trump or the Republican party.

It's an interesting dissection of the Trump phenomenon from the inside, arguably from one of the most disenfranchised demographics of the United States.

Woodside first met Hulon Mitchell Jr., better known as Yahweh ben Yahweh, in 1980. Along with his brother, Ricardo, who joined the cult before he did, Woodside was reported to have played "a big role in the rise and fall of the Nation of Yahweh" (part of the Black Hebrew Israelites movement). His mother, Johnnie Simmons, was also a devout member of the cult. He later left the cult with his sister after his mother died.

He was one of 16 members of the Nation of Yahweh who was arrested and charged with one count of murder and one count of attempted murder in 1990. He was found not guilty of these charges by a Florida jury in 1992, but Yahweh was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison. At the trial, Ricardo testified that he and Maurice attempted unsuccessfully to murder Eric Burke, a dissident member of Yahweh's cult, and that Maurice had helped to beat another cult member, Aston Green, unconscious.

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