Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to a crowd of supporters about his Immigration Policy during a campaign rally on August 31, 2016 in Phoenix, Arizona.
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The protesters believe that Trump has “zero support” among black voters for a reason and that if he wants them to reconsider, visiting a black church once in a while won’t be enough. During his speech in that community, Donald Trump called for a “civil rights agenda of our time” and vowed to fix the “many wrongs” facing African-Americans.
“But today, I’m here to list”, said Trump, reading in subdued tones from what he said was a hand-written message.
“I saw Donald Trump the human being, instead of Donald Trump the guy that just, you know, ‘We’re going to build a wall, we’re going to keep them out, ‘” one attendee, Sonia Green, told CNN. “Mr. Trump ran a campaign through the nomination process of bigotry”. He also took a short tour with Ben Carson, a retired African-American neurosurgeon and former Republican presidential rival, who showed Trump the modest Detroit home in which he grew up.
This is how Trump really feels about African-Americans.
Trump, whose campaign ties to white nationalist groups have drawn significant backlash, went on to say that he empathized with the plight of the black community in America today.
The demonstrators outside the Great Faith International Ministries included ministers and other clergy who gathered on a median across from a back entrance to the house of worship. “We must love each other and support each other in this all together”.
“I have been staying on message more now because, ultimately, I’m finding that I do better with voters, do better in the polls, when I’m on message”, he told The New York Times in August.
His stance on race may impress white Republicans, but it falls short of what Black voters find most important.
“Donald Trump says that all black people are living in poverty and our schools are failing, we’re unemployed”. Protests met Trump in Detroit, where he focused on promoting unity in a stop that the campaign practiced for with scripted questions and answers. She’s voting for Hillary Clinton.
She added that Great Faith’s pastor, Bishop Wayne Jackson, also should not be faulted for inviting Trump – since his interview for his Impact Network “could be a ratings coup” for the cable operation when it is shown next week.
The visit to Detroit follows a major address geared towards America’s inner-cities in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 17 where the GOP nominee lampooned Clinton for representing the same failed Democratic policies that have wrecked havoc on the black community in the United States. “Or are you here to have a real conversation when you’re finally going to give us the specifics on what you’re going to go to make American cities better?”
Before the 1930s, most African- Americans were registered Republicans and voted that way.
Of his speech, Trump claimed that he “just wrote this the other day, knowing I’d be here – and I mean it from the heart”. They will be made right.
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He said during the Detroit visit he hoped to learn about ways to remedy economics so the African-American community can benefit economically through jobs and income. Lots of folks were turned off by that, and many said he was using those lines to talk more to white voters than to black voters.
