“I am here to learn”.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wears a prayer shawl during a church service at Great Faith Ministries, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016, in Detroit.
Meanwhile, Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, tells NBC’s “Meet The Press” that he plans to release his tax returns in the next week.
“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”.
Seated in the front row next to Trump was Omarosa Manigault, a former contestant on Trump’s reality television series who has been helping his campaign reach out to the Black community.
‘But today, I’m here to listen, ‘ he said reading from his notes.
“I fully understand that the African-American community has suffered from discrimination”, Trump said.
DONALD Trump vowed to fix the “many wrongs” facing African-Americans as he made a visit to a predominantly black church in Detroit.
Before the speech, protesters chanting “Dump Trump” and “We’re going to church” tried to push through police barriers to gain entrance. “He’s not going to get our votes”. “Anybody who is in this church should be appalled”. “They said this was a free event but then they wouldn’t let me in without a ticket”.
Emma Lockridge, 63, said as she entered the church that she found his comments about Mexicans and Muslims “hateful”.
Vicki Dobbins, an activist protesting outside, said she was disappointed the church asked Trump to speak.
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“He generalized the total black community. I promised that: You are coming into a place to be interviewed and we don’t want anybody to be hurt or anybody to be misused, so that’s it”.
Three days earlier, during Trump’s visit to Philadelphia, he met with Shalga Hightower, 55, whose daughter Iofemi was murdered by gang members. “And anointing is the power of God”, Jackson said. 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.
Mr Trump has been faulted for largely ignoring the black community during his campaign, and bypassing appearances before black churches and organisations in favour of rowdy, largely white rallies.
Rev. Lawrence Glass, one of the clergy criticizing Trump’s visit, said the Republican represents the “politics of fear and hate” and that “minorities of all kinds have much to lose taking a chance on someone like” Trump.
“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”.
“Your house is worth a lot of money”, he told her, thanks to the Carson connection. He said black support for Republicans was so low that rebuilding it would be “the work of a generation”. But Democrats aren’t very concerned about the percentage of blacks who support the Republican.
“What do you have to lose?” he posed almost two weeks ago, rhetorically addressing African Americans in a speech before a white audience in OH, admonishing that Democrats “don’t care about you”.
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James Mitchell, of Detroit, came to register voters outside of the event.
