@ech To me his choice of people who surround him shows his racism more, not less. Somewhere in his career he moved from oppressing black people to exploiting him, right around the time he knew it was good for his career. So now what he does is pick exclusively minorities for every single position, turning virtue signaling up to 11, and then expects people to see him as the good father figure for the blacks rather than the evil tyrant, and it works.

It is even more evident when you pay attention to his language with things like "If you dont vote for me, you ain't black" which shows 2 things 1) he thinks he knows better for the black community than their own people 2) he sees blacks as uneducated because when addressing them he felt the need to use improper english "aint" in order to come across more relatable (a word he almost never uses otherwise).