Who decides the definition of an African American leader?

Perhaps the greatest leader of the nation who had African American interests at heart was President Abraham Lincoln.

Donald Trump's meeting with African American leaders today defines supporters in his party by race who just so happen to be black. 

Update: Here is video of meeting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNltX1HZZdQ

Trump's meeting reminded me of my friend who said he became a Republican when party members agreed to give him a job at the golf course if he became a member of the GOP. It meant an opportunity was given in exchange for Party loyalty. 

Trump's meeting was a lukewarm attempt to appear to be focused on issues affecting African Americans - employment, health care, education and justice. These are the same issues every American has concerns over. Maybe additional agenda points should have been high poverty rate, mass incarceration, and hopelessness.

A leader can be defined as "the person who leads or commands a group, organization, or country." A leader gives orders, but he must have followers who agree to follow. 

A leader is defined by his/her followers, and Trump's lackluster meeting with so called "African American leaders" on the first day of Black History Month put the spotlight on blacks who supported him in his campaign who are not necessarily representative of Americans who happen to be of African American descent. 

A day earlier, Trump met with heads of pharmaceutical companies. At this meeting, the CEO of Merck, an African American, was seated at the table because of his company's credentials, not because of his race. Previously, Trump met in his NY Towers with Bob Johnson, Steve Harvey, and MLK, III. 

Before today's meeting, perhaps Trump's aides instead of hastily getting some "black leaders" together for a photo op, should have consulted Corey D. Fields, an assistant professor of sociology and faculty affiliate at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford. 

Fields interviewed about 50 black Republican activists for his recently published book, Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans. In his book, Field writes , "...the Republican Party has deployed a series of strategic, if sometimes symbolic, outreach efforts to generate a conservative thinking class and thrust African American Republicans into the spotlight as markers of GOP diversity."

I have contacted the White House, asking them to forward me the names of the leaders and their affiliated organizations. I am awaiting their response. 

Searching the Internet to see who was at the meeting turned up no names accept for Omarosa Manigualt, a past contestant turned advisor to Trump; Darrell Scott, a Cleveland pastor who communicates with gang members; and Ben Carson, Trump's nominee for sec of HHS. I dare say I would not define these three as black leaders. The others at the table are virtual unknowns who are community activists, ministers, a journalist, and small business entrepreneurs who the traditional media didn't think enough of to list.

As a sidebar, what do my non-continental US friends think of Trump?

I asked one of my European friends what he thought about Trump, and he said he liked him because he was unconventional. He also said he didn't like journalists although he knows I am one. He said he doesn't like politicians who he believes are destroying his country. "Democracy only gives us people who are in office for a short period of time, make all the money and contacts that they can, and leave the country worse off than when they came into office," he said.

Another friend who is Puerto Rican said she doesn't like politicians when I asked her who were some leaders in her community. "Politicians are a lot like doctors. They don't cure you when you are sick because then, you don't need them anymore."

Update: Other meeting attendees:
VP Pence and Jared Kushner, White House
Paris Dennard, Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund
Bill Cleveland, retired Capitol police officer
Earl Matthews, Dept. of Defense
Dr. and Mrs. Darrell Scott, New Spirit Revival Ctr., Cleveland
Armstrong Williams, Howard Stirk Holding Broadcast Group
James Davis, Preacher, National Diversity Coalition
Lynne Martine Patton, HUD