To turn the author's question around, "Does Donald Trump need to fix his relationship with black America?"  The easy answer is, "No, not as long as blacks don't show up to vote!"  Blacks showed up at the polls in big numbers in 2008 and 2012 when Obama, a black man, was the Democrat presidential candidate.  In 2016 when the candidate for the Democrats was a white woman and the Republican standard bearer was a white man, apathy seemed to overtake black voters and they didn't show up in the large numbers seen in the previous two elections. As long as black voters elect to not exercise their hard won franchise, Trump and his ilk don't need to cater to the needs of black America. It's a simple fact of  political life!