The owner of Rocky’s Barbershop, a small Black-owned business located on Piedmont Rd. in Buckhead, is confused. Rocky Jones allowed his small barbershop to be the site of a small business roundtable discussion hosted by a pair of Republican Congressmen Byron Donalds (FL) and Wesley Hunt (TX), and Dr. Ben Carson, the former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Trump. And somehow Jones has gone on record to say he didn’t know it was a Trump surrogate-led event. He didn’t know it would be political in nature.
Yeah right, dude.
I was there that day, and so were 30-plus other members of the media. I’m not sure that we all would have been crammed inside and gathered outside the barbershop on a hot Wednesday afternoon if it was just “locker room talk” taking place. I was invited by a member of the Trump campaign communications team. As a member of the media I jumped at the chance to cover a Black small business owner who actually openly supported the Trump reelection campaign. Only Jones must have been confused about what was taking place.