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Donald Trump made a promise to speak at an African American church in Detroit, Mich.
Immediately after sitting down with GFIM Pastor, Bishop Wayne Jackson, in an interview that will eventually air on the Impact Network – an African-American-founded Christian television network – Trump promised congregants that he will approach the black community’s plight with empathy and justice.
As scores of protesters outside chanted “No justice, no peace,”Trump said he wanted to make Detroit – a predominantly African-American city which recently emerged from bankruptcy – the economic envy of the world by bringing back companies from overseas”.
“It put a spotlight on pandering”, Riley said, “how little tolerance there must be for it from now on and how little respect we have for some black people that critics and politicians think they could be so easily swayed”.
The visit is a high-profile stop in Trump’s recent bid to offset the overwhelming advantage his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton enjoys among African American voters, who make up 12 per cent of the electorate.
“Our nation is too divided”, Trump said.
“We talk past each other, not to each other”.
“And those who seek office do not do enough to step into the community and learn what’s going on”, the 70-year-old businessman insisted. Colin says she’s offended by Trump’s talk of building a wall between the United States and Mexico.
Trump’s message of compassion was “genuine, it was authentic, and it was warm”, she said, adding that fellow African Americans needed to “change the lens in our perspective” and recognize Trump’s sincerity in seeking to help their communities.
“The African-American faith community has been one of God’s greatest gifts to America and to its people”, Trump said during his speech.
A brief exchange of heated remarks flared between a small group of black Trump supporters who mingled with protesters.
Nancy Paz, who immigrated from Mexico, tells Pluta that she parked her family’s taco truck near the church Trump visited on Detroit’s west side Saturday in the hope that the Republican presidential candidate might glimpse it on his way in.
Trump, who has argued that black voters have nothing to lose by supporting him – a line that has been widely criticized by Democrats – also vowed to improve economic conditions across the country. But they have voted overwhelmingly for Democratic presidential candidates starting in 1936, when Franklin D. Roosevelt received 71 per cent of the black vote, peaking at 96 per cent for Mr Barack Obama’s election as the first African-American president in 2008. At one point, the protesters tried to push through a barrier to the parking lot but were stopped by church security and police. Protesters of all ages and races came out to protest Trump’s Detroit visit by holding anti-Trump signs that said “No Hate in the White House”.
“It feels like this isn’t honest”, says the Detroit mayor, “it feels like a re-imaging campaign”.
Trump first posed for pictures as he entered behind a procession of church leaders.
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“I’m here to hear what he has to say”, said Milton Lewis, 46, who works as a minister at another church. The outlet reports that Trump later paid a visit to Carson’s childhood home in southwest Detroit.
