According to a six-minute montage of Sunday sermons, black pastors are literally reading from a list of talking points in their pulpits to praise Harris and her presidential campaign after she replaced Joe Biden in their mid-July switcheroo.
According to the X channel “Woke Preacher Clips,” which created the montage, it found more than 50 church pastors reading from prepared talking points to praise Harris. Some of the pastors are reading directly from their political sermon notes while others, after memorizing the talking points, are pacing back and forth as organ music plays in the background.
In some clips, the pastors describe a fundraising call with Harris in which “44,000 black women” joined a Zoom call to support the new Democrat nominee.
They appear to be referencing a Zoom call, on July 24, that made headlines for the number of black women who participated just days after Harris replaced Biden.
The pastors then excitedly move on to describe the “other folks,” including white women, white men, Latinos, and Asians, who have participated in other fundraising calls with Harris.
“White men had a call!” one pastor tells the congregation. “L-G-B-T-Q-I-A had a call!”
“They raised $8 million in two hours,” one pastor, describing white women, tells his congregation. “Y’all still ain’t shoutin’ yet.”
In other clips, black pastors appear to be impressed that Melinda Gates, ex-wife of billionaire Bill Gates, “just wired $37 million dollars” to support Harris.
Not done with praising the Zoom calls and the Gates contribution, the pastors also proudly report that Harris raised record amounts of campaign funds, including much of it from “first-time donors,” they tell their congregations.
‘Echoing what they’ve been told’
Reacting to the black pastors and their talking points, Bishop E.W. Jackson of “The Awakening” podcast tells AFN he can’t trace the political talking points to their exact source, but he has some suspicions.
“These folks are simply echoing what they've been told, handed down, I suppose,” he says, “from maybe a George Soros, from a Barack Obama, from Michelle Obama, and formerly from Joe Biden, and just repeating it.”
In every election with a Democrat on the ballot, black voters represent a vital voting bloc for Democratic candidates. That political power includes the local black church, especially in urban areas such as Detroit, Atlanta, and Memphis, where the church pastor is often the political point man.
Jackson, who publicly supports Donald Trump and a second term, is also aware polls show Trump is making promising inroads with black voters, especially black men.
Trump was the choice of 18% of black voters in a recent CBS/You.gov poll, AFN recently reported.
Even if he gets 10%-12% support from black voters on Election Day, that could make a difference for Trump in some swing states.
“I really do think that we are at the verge of a major shift, particularly among Christians,” Jackson predicts. “You can only lie to people and mislead people for so long.”
