“I fully understand that the African-American community has suffered from discrimination and that there are many wrongs that must still be made right”, he told congregants at the Great Faith International Ministries Church.
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The shawl, called a tallit, is usually worn by Jewish men during prayer and was draped over the GOP candidate by a pastor at the Great Faith Ministries in Detroit as he stood to address the congregation.
“Trump’s security was pretty egregious in my estimation but even worse was the Detroit Police Department who brought horses into middle of crowd and actually kicked people with those horses”.
Nor did the businessman-turned-politician forget to mention the crisis in Detroit, a debt-ridden city since the General Motors bailout in 2009 and generally depressed since the automobile industry and manufacturing in general went into a tailspin in the 1990s.
Trump went on to say that “all across this land that the civil rights movement lifted up its soul and lifted up our nation”.
Trump said he was there “to learn so that we can together remedy injustice in any form. and so that we can also remedy economics, and so that the African-American community can benefit … through jobs and income”. “Now it’s a little different from a Presbyterian church”.
But of course, this attack on Trump and his message of unity to Detroit’s African-American community comes at a time when Hillary Clinton’s health and judgment has become an issue for voters after the Federal Bureau of Investigation report released on Friday.
One of the protesters, Rosendo Delgado, 62, of Detroit, who said she is Latino, said Trump “shoots from the hip without analyzing what he is saying”.
“That’s my major reservation with Mr. Trump is how he’s treated those particular sets of people”, said Lockridge, who is retired and an environmental activist.
On Thursday, The New York Times published what it said was a script of pre-approved questions Trump would be asked in his interview with Jackson, along with prepared answers.
“We don’t need him”. African-American community leaders, in particular, have railed against Trump’s dire depictions of minority life and dismissed his message as intended more to reassure white voters that he’s not racist than to help communities of color.
Omarosa Manigault is now his director of African-American outreach. He also earned the ire of many when he seemed to generalize the experience of black America, telling a largely white audience that minority communities in inner cities are marked by “poverty”.
The message of Trump’s visit is “at the end of the day, contrary to what Democrats say, ‘I’m not a bigot, my heart is in the right place, ‘” O’Connell said.
Accompanying Trump to the church was Ben Carson, the former Republican presidential hopeful who grew up in the city and whose childhood neighborhood Trump visited on Saturday.
Opinion polls show Trump has low support among US minorities.
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Outside of the church stood protestor who claimed Trump used the church and its members as pawns in the race to the White House.
