Donald Trump was ridiculed Saturday after attending what his campaign called a Black roundtable at a Detroit church — with photos showing a largely white audience.Trump’s campaign reached out to the 180 Church to set up the event at which attendees asked a handful of questions before bursting into a...

Donald Trump was ridiculed Saturday after attending what his campaign called a Black roundtable at a Detroit church — with photos showing a largely white audience.

Trump’s campaign reached out to the 180 Church to set up the event at which attendees asked a handful of questions before bursting into a rendition of Happy Birthday.

The evangelical church is in the heart of Detroit’s west side and has a mainly Black congregation.

But photos caught by the media, and shared widely online, showed a lot of white people in the audience.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I wanted to find out why the fuck they invited him:

    “For him to have a community conversation, I thought it was an opportunity to be able to really give the least of these, the disenfranchised and marginalized, an opportunity to have a voice at the table because typically we’re on the menu,” Sewell said. “If you come to Grand River, if you walk through our community, you will see, quite frankly, that it’s desolate. … (Trump campaign officials) didn’t want to talk to people that had high prestige and high power positions. They wanted to talk to the least of these.”

    https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2024/06/15/detroit-church-hosting-donald-trump-for-roundtable-faces-criticism/74093920007/

    And it’s not like he supports trump or hates Biden:

    “I let (the Trump campaign) know clearly that I don’t endorse any candidate,” Sewell said. “I’m a pastor. I can’t trade, my spiritual influence for political influence.”

    In an op-ed on the digital divide published last year in the Free Press, Sewell praised Democratic elected officials such as Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for their infrastructure bill. At 180 Church, he and other leaders created a computer lab and offer classes for adult literacy, computer training and resume-writing, Sewell said.

    People have serious issues and want to be heard, but Biden is too busy dining with George Clooney in California than campaigning in Michigan…

    And like, am I the only one that forgets Hillary’s victory lap and focus on big donors instead of boots on the ground campaigning being one of the reason we already got stuck with trump for four years?

    Why are we just doing it again? This is 2016 all over but people are too scared of hurting Biden if he continues that they wont ring an alarm bell.

    Edit:

    Someone finally gave me some info

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-battleground-state-black-voters-two-big-speeches-morehead-naacp-georgia-michigan/

    After a NAACP speech in May he stopped by a local business in Detroit

    We need more of that, glad to hear he’s doing some already

    • Wrench@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Rofl. Way to turn a thread on Trump getting caught faking an outreach to the black voter in a black church into an anti Biden/Harris smear.

      • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
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        11 months ago

        givesomefucks does this in every single thread that remotely mentions Trump or Biden. Either he’s got an agenda, or absolutely no life. Or both, the two aren’t mutually exclusive. I find their constant attempts at division to be exhausting to read.