Preachers to Trump: You’re a racist [View All]

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Preachers to Trump: You’re a racist

A coalition of African-American ministers has wasted no time setting the tone for rapid-response in the infancy of 2012’s presidential campaign by publicly calling billionaire Donald Trump a racist.

Donald Trump has angered a number of Blacks with his comments about Obama’s birth.
"In his fledgling bid as a presidential nominee, Trump has re-ignited false allegations of President Obama’s citizenship - stirring up old rumors about the validity of Obama’s Hawaii birth records," the Rev. Anthony Evans, president National Black Church Initiative, said in a recent statement. "These remarks are extraordinarily misinformed and speak to a deeper and more insidious problem - racism."

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"As a national African-American organization, we are appalled that in Trump’s effort to garner publicity and separate himself from the pack, he feels it is appropriate to dredge up false, divisive and ugly rumors about our elected president," said Evans, who represents a faith-based coalition of 34,000 churches comprised of 15 denominations and 15.7 million African-Americans.

"While we may disagree with Obama on policy decisions, we wholeheartedly stand behind our president and, in accordance with widely accepted facts, acknowledge his lawful citizenship," he said. "Those who remain skeptical are unsuccessfully hiding their racism under a veil of conspiracy theories and gossip."

http://www.flcourier.com/flnation/5076-preachers-to-trump-youre-a-racist