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Black Pastors Take Heat For Trump Meeting

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A group of black pastors met with Donald Trump last week at The White House and praised him as “the most pro-Black president that we’ve had in our lifetime.”  Now, they are being accused of selling out and being “Uncle Tom’s,” and are facing criticism from their congregations and other prominent church leaders alike.

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The event was billed as a meeting to discuss prison reform, but it didn’t take long for it to quickly morph into a Donald Trump lovefest and photo-op for his benefit.

“This is probably the most pro-active administration regarding urban America and the faith-based community in my lifetime,” said early Trump supporter, Pastor Darrell Scott of Ohio. “This is probably going to be … the most pro-Black president that we’ve had in our lifetime.”

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Darrell Scott

Despite claims that the meeting was not intended to be a Trump PR event but was meant to allow minority voices to have a seat at the table, the black pastors in attendance were captured on camera as if they were “Uncle Tom’s”  grinning and shucking and jiving for “Massa Trump.”

Needless to say, not everyone was amused.

Rev. Greg Holston, the executive director of the interfaith group Philadelphians Organized to Witness Empower and Rebuild (POWER) said he was very “flabbergasted” by Scott’s comment.

“To call this president the most pro-black president when you allow people with these kinds of very violent, hatred-filled ideals and thinking into the White House, I’m flabbergasted that you would even say that or even think that,” Holston said. “There is no way that this president can be called pro-Black or pro people or color in any shape, form or imagination.”

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Pastor John Gray and Donald Trump

 

Rev. Kevin Johnson of the Dare to Imagine Church in Philadelphia also agreed with that sentiment.

“President Trump is probably the one who is doing the most to hurt, devastate the Black community,” Johnson said. “If you look at what Jeff Sessions is doing to civil rights and also to criminal justice reform, it’s not moving the Black community forward, but backward.”

Johnson added that the meeting between Trump and the black pastors only served to benefit Trump and not the Black church or the Black community.

“Preachers were there are pawns, not even knowing how to play the chess that Donald Trump is playing,” Johnson said. “It was buffoonery in the fullest sense and it did not help the Black church, but it just further emphasized the lack of the prophetic voice in the Black community.”

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“They are prostituting themselves and, in essence, the black church,” said Rev. Jamal Bryant, pastor of the Empowerment Temple Church in Baltimore after explaining he refused to attend the meeting and be a sellout to his community.

“It’s 15 minutes of fame,” Bryant continued.  “It gave them a chance to be on television and in the newspaper, where otherwise, nobody would have ever known their names.”

With only 13% of African-Americans acknowledging in a new Gallup Poll that they approve of the job Donald Trump is doing, it’s safe to say Black America clearly does NOT back these black pastors or the belief that Trump is the most pro-Black president in history.

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WATCH PASTOR JOHN GRAY DISCUSS THE MEETING WITH TRUMP:

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Truthiz1

I had only heard just a snippet about this until now. Pretty darn sad. But not all that surprising.

I’ve caught a bit of “Pastor” Darrell Scott’s shtick on CNN from time to time. He is indeed one of Trump’s major tools and a shameless “sell-out” to the Black race in America.

My beloved grandfather (now deceased) used to refer to the Darrell Scotts of this world as “jack-legged preachers” who AIN’T about nothing but serving their own craven wants and desires. My grandfather despised the actions of preachers of that ilk and so do I. My grandfather wanted nothing to do with such men and neither do I.

“They are prostituting themselves and, in essence, the black church,” for “15 minutes of fame,” – Rev. Jamal Bryant

And let the church say AAAAMEN!

Mr.BD

Thank you for talking about this story DJ. The whole thing is a total disgrace. There was not one thing that came out of that meeting that any of these pastors could say made their church better or made anything better for black people. They were used as pawns for a photo op and I’m sure they got something under the table for being there. This is my problem with most pastors and churches today. They say one thing then do another. They spend all this time in the pulpit talking about being Christian then they go get in bed with somebody like Trump who has lived his whole life the opposite of what they say they believe in. I have no respect for these Uncle Toms and you are right to call them that because that is what they are. They are total sell outs and I hope their… Read more »

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