Reportedly, this is from a church in Birmingham with a “A BLACK VOTE FOR TRUMP IS A MENTAL ILLNESS”… pic.twitter.com/SQzkzXXfuw
— Dale Jackson (@TheDaleJackson) August 6, 2019
Pastor Michael R. Jordan presently heads the New Era Baptist Church. This particular church has displayed other questionable messages in previous times. In 2018, a sign promoted by the church stated, “black folks need to stay out of white churches.” The other side of the sign also read, “white folks refused to be our neighbors.”
Following controversy regarding this sign, Jordan doubled down. His statement on the matter read as follows:
“White folk have proved they don’t want to live next door to us, or be our neighbors, or worship with us. Now they want to plant a white church in a black neighborhood under the umbrella of supposedly to fight crime. The white church elected a racist president Donald Trump.”
Do All Black Americans Have to Think the Same Way?
To many people, the notion that black Americans cannot vote for or support Trump contains monolithic undertones. In layman’s terms, it suggests that all black Americans must think the same way…at least politically. This is something which various groups tend to push back against…especially black Americans who support and/or voted for President Trump.
