There's more to the black church story than Trump's cynical play of black churches to show that he's not a racist. We'll have to roll back the clock to the2004 presidential election to see why black churches figure in the Trump game plan. The story that election was the role of black evangelicals. In the right place and under the right circumstance, black evangelicals posed a stealth danger to Democrats. He quickly grabbed a few hand-picked prominent black evangelicals for a much-touted meeting, and photo-op at Trump Tower earlier this year.
Source: Huffington Post September 16, 2016 23:26 UTC