rawstory | “You’re accusing Hillary Clinton of pandering to African-American
voters — and yet Donald Trump has yet to lay out and enumerate his plans
to create jobs, to deal with the crime issues that he’s talking about,”
Welker told Burns, who has acted as a surrogate for Trump. “So how can
African-American voters feel as though he is validly trying to address
some of their top concerns when he has not spoken directly to them and
to their communities?”
“Tell me: where are your ancestors from?” Burns asked her.
“I have a lot of ancestors,” Welker replied. “Let’s just stick on the topic, though.”
“When you talk to one black family, you’re not talking to all black
families,” said Burns, who is black. “We need to quit talking as though
when you talk to ‘the African-American community’ as though that
resonates with all –”
“But he’s not talking to them at all, Pastor Burns, that’s my point,” she interjected.
“That’s not true. He’s talking to Americans!” Burns yelled. “And we
as African-Americans are Americans. We are American. We are American.
and we deserve to have the same respect as all Americans. When Donald
Trump talked about jobs, he didn’t talk to white America — he talked to
America. And that’s the problem we have in this society.”
While Trump drew criticism last week for making his pitch to
African-American voters in front of all-white audiences, Burns did so on
Monday for posting the drawing of Clinton, along with the caption,
“Black Americans, THANK YOU FOR YOUR VOTES and letting me use you
again..See you again in 4 years.”
