There was no evidence of the fiery and often-intemperate candidate in his remarks to the Greater Faith Ministries International congregation.
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Toni McIlwain believes that as a candidate for president, Donald Trump has a right to go anywhere he wants.
In this Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016, photo, Toni McIlwain stands outside the building that housed her Ravendale Community nonprofit that offered education and drug prevention programs in Detroit.
The latest tracking polling has shown that only 8 percent of black voters support Trump, compared to 87 percent in favor of Clinton. Trump’s intention was to meet and speak with local residents while he’s in town “because he’s been criticized”, Jackson said, “for preaching to African-Americans from a backdrop of white people”.
Area clergy and several hundred city residents have denounced a visit by Donald Trump to a Detroit church as the Republican presidential candidate hopes to convince black voters to cast their ballots for him.
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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. Small business owner and Trump backer Carletta Griffin was in the church, and said his compassion was “genuine, it was authentic, and it was warm”.
The images of Trump in a tallit will presumably do little to improve Trump’s standing among Jewish American voters, who strongly favor Hillary Clinton over Trump.
“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.
“[Trump] didn’t come to hear us, he came to talk to one of us to tell us what he thinks we ought to do”, Pastor Lawrence Glass, one of the organisers of the protest, told Al Jazeera. “And those who seek office do not do enough to step into the community and learn what is going on”.
“I’m here today to learn so that we can together remedy injustice in any form, and so we can also remedy economics so African-American communities can benefit economically through jobs and income.”
“I fully understand that the African-American community has suffered from discrimination and that there are many wrongs that must still be made right”.
Before he left, he was presented with a prayer shawl, which Jackson draped over Trumps shoulders, and a Jewish Heritage Studies bible.
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.
Trump’s efforts thus far to attract greater support from minority groups have largely fallen flat.
Trump faced criticism in recent weeks for wooing black voters but in front of overwhelmingly white audiences.
Outside, protesters chanted: “What do you have to lose?”.
Protesters gathered outside the Detroit church visited Donald Trump.
“I’m here to hear what he has to say”, said Milton Lewis, 46, who works as a minister at another church.
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After the service, Trump toured a Detroit neighborhood with former rival Doctor Ben Carson. He echoed Trumps promise that he will release his taxes upon the completion of an ongoing audit.
