Thread: Trump at black Detroit church: ‘Our nation is too divided’

Trump at black Detroit church: ‘Our nation is too divided’

Calls for a ‘civil rights agenda for our time’

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times
Saturday, September 3, 2016

At a black church in Detroit, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called Saturday for a “civil rights agenda for our time” that would deliver better education, good-paying jobs and and safer streets to inner-city neighborhoods.

Mr. Trump touted his effort to bring economic and social justice to minority but also stressed the need to restore Christian values and forge racial unity, as he reached out to minority voters who historically vote as a Democratic bloc.

The New York businessman said that it was the greatest honor his his life to be the presidential nominee of the party of Abraham Lincoln.

“It is on his legacy that I hope to build the future of the party but more importantly the future of the country and the community,” Mr. Trump said from the pulpit of Great Faith Ministries Church. “I believe we need a civil rights agenda for our time, one that ensures the rights to a great education — so important — and the right to live in safety and peace, to have a really, really great job, good-paying job and one you love to go to every morning.”

“It can happen,” he assured the congregation, which warmly received the address despite protesters outside who denounced Mr. Trump as racist.

Before the service, Mr. Trump sat for a videotaped interview with the church’s pastor, Bishop Wayne T. Jackson. The interview will by broadcast Thursday on the church’s Impact Television Network.

Mr. Jackson said that the interview and Mr. Trump’s appearance at the service were not an endorsement.

Mr. Jackson praised Mr. Trump’s address to the congregation, which included Scripture versus, and said Mr. Trump could add the title of “preacher” to his resume. The bishop also presented Mr. Trump with a prayer shawl and a study Bible.

The visit to Detroit was Mr. Trump most aggressive effort yet to court black voters. For weeks, he has appealed for minority support and argued that the Democratic Party has taken their votes for granted and for generations failed to deliver on promises to bring opportunity and prosperity to their communities.

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton responded with a series of attacks, including TV ads, that accuse Mr. Trump of being aligned with white supremacists, the Klu Klux Klan and neo-Nazis.

“Our nation is too divided,” Mr. Trump told the congregation.

“We talk past each other not to each other,” he said. “Those who seek office don’t do enough to step into the community and learn what is going on. They don’t know. They have no clue.”

Mr. Trump said that he was different.

“I’m here today to learn so that we together can remedy the injustice in any form and so we can also remedy economics so that the African-American community can benefit economically,” he said. “Our political system has failed the people and works only to enrich itself. I want to reform the system so that it works for you, everybody in this room.”

He said reform had to come from outside the system and that was what he was offering American voters.

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/20...n-too-divided/

Reuters cuts feed just as Donald Trump is being blessed by Bishop Jackson

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MM7oPN...ozObHvhPE6rAni

Full Speech
https://m.youtube.com/watch?ebc=ANyP...&v=sfZDKWo2LxE

FULL: Donald Trump Addresses Black Detroit Church (09/03/2016) [FULL EVENT & SPEECH]

Thank you Judy for the embed video. I went back to get the link for the full speech.

Cutting the feed during the blessing by Reuters, arguing with the man filming it, and the man saying he would take a demotion for continuing to film was something. The camera shakes. Wonder if there was a tussle. Media bias.

Very good speech by Mr. Trump.

Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeach

Reuters cuts feed just as Donald Trump is being blessed by Bishop Jackson

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MM7oPN...ozObHvhPE6rAni

Full Speech
https://m.youtube.com/watch?ebc=ANyP...&v=sfZDKWo2LxE

Reuters cuts feed just as Donald Trump is being blessed by Bishop Jackson

Why would they do such a thing? That is so awful!! Disgusting. The media is totally corrupt. Totally totally corrupt. Such a sweet moment and to cut it off is just horrible.

Originally Posted by Judy

Why would they do such a thing? That is so awful!! Disgusting. The media is totally corrupt. Totally totally corrupt. Such a sweet moment and to cut it off is just horrible.

The camera feed gentleman seems to recognize it as a special moment. Higher ups obviously disagreed.

Here is a short video clip of Donald Trump greeting and shaking hands with law enforcement as he prepares to leave Detroit. Very nice.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BJ59cQ2D4TT/

Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson visiting Dr. carson's former home in Detroit.

https://mobile.twitter.com/DanScavin...064256/video/1

Others pictures and videos on the Facebook and Twitter pages of Dan Scavino, Trump's media coordinator.

https://www.facebook.com/DanScavino/

That was a nice day. But just in my opinion, he needs a BIG DETROIT RALLY, and also one in PHILLY and CLEVELAND, and CHICAGO!!

Yes, there will be huge protests, BUT, just plow through, people will come, and fill those arenas to hear him at a rally. The whole arrangement at the church was so quiet and low-energy, because of the venue being a church, there are restrictions on what can be said and done. At a rally, RightSide Broadcasting will cover it all through the big feed so the whole nation can hear and see everything.

I realize security is an issue in the inner cities due to the protests, but this is a Presidential Election and the campaign must go on. Black Americans feel like they're left out even though they aren't, many black Americans live in the suburbs and many who live in the cities can drive to the rally venue in the suburbs, so if they don't come, it's their fault they didn't hear the message Trump spent a lot of money to reach them with. Blacks in Milwaukee should have driven the 40 minutes to the big rally Trump had outside Milwaukee. They don't go and then accuse him of talking about them to white people who drove farther than that to be there.

It's because of the Democrat mentality that has trapped them in the cities to begin with and the Media who has misled them into believing they won't be welcome at a Trump Rally when black people are embraced at Trump rallies, not just by Trump but by all of his Supporters as well. Yes, if you protest and disrupt the event, then you're going to be escorted or hauled out, and if you attack a Trump Supporter, they might punch back. But if you come to listen and learn, you will be embraced by the Trump Rally.

Don't believe the garbage and lies being promulgated by the Media, the Democratic Party, the NAACP or Hillary Supporters.

That all said, look at the turn out at the Chicago Rally, he needs to go to several big cities, schedule events at the big arenas, and plow through the protests. That's my advice, subject to approval by the Secret Service.