EXCLUSIVE
— Bishop Aubrey Shines: On Immigration, Jobs, School Choice, Donald Trump Is
the Candidate Black Voters Have Been Waiting For, by Jerome Hudson, 10/15/16
Evangelical
Bishop Aubrey Shines, an outspoken supporter of Donald Trump, says
the Republican presidential nominee is ready to lead black and Latino
voters away from the Democratic party of slavery, welfare, and abortion.
“Don’t
just look for 10 percent of black Americans to vote for Donald Trump,” Shines
told Breitbart News in a recent interview. “As long as Trump can bring his
message of change straight to the people, I think you’re going to see more
black people voting for Trump than have voted for a Republican presidential nominee
in decades.”
For years,
at Tampa’s Glory to Glory Church, Bishop Shines has brought his brand of God’s
gospel to millions of people. His strident political advocacy for Trump, he
says, is rooted in the proud history of the Republican Party and starts with
educating voters on the hidden history of the Democratic Party.
“I ask
people to ask themselves a question: are you better off after having supported
the Democratic Party that has given you slavery?” Shines says. “Are you
comfortable, blacks and Latinos particularly, in knowing that you have been
part of a political party that has a legacy of lynching, the KKK, Jim Crow
laws? Or are you just not aware of these facts?”
Last
month, Shines produced a powerful and provocative video exposing the
Democratic Party’s unsavory history on civil rights and much more. The video,
titled, “Black Pastors Do Not Support Hillary Clinton,” features quotes from
people who’ve shaped the Democratic Party and those who’ve influenced its 2016
presidential nominee.
Shines says
now that he’s created the video, he’s looking to leverage faith leaders and
social media to amass a new generation of conservative converts. Speaking
candidly, Shines said the video is meant to ask “my white Christian brothers
and sisters and my white faith leaders a question: are you comfortable knowing
that every time you vote for a Democrat, you’re voting for a party that
believes in the abortion and genocide of an entire ethnicity?”
Indeed,
there are more than 20
comprehensive healthcare clinics for every 1 Planned Parenthood facility. And, according
to a map published
by Breitbart News that
shows many Planned Parenthood facilities within walking distance of black and
Latino neighborhoods, it’s no surprise that non-Hispanic black women who
made up about 6.6 percent of the population accounted for 35.7 percent of
the abortions performed in 2010.
“If they
are not aware of their party’s horrid racial history, that’s one thing,”
Shines said. “But to know the Democratic Party’s history of slavery and their
current support of abortion and black genocide, calls into question whether
they understand what being an American is all about. As Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King put it, that
type of infanticide and barbaric behavior is something that shouldn’t be
supported by anyone.”
One of
the few black faith leaders publicly supporting Trump, Bishop Shines said his
support for the White House hopeful “was never a question.” “Once Trump became
the Republican nominee, I was going to vote for the party’s candidate,” he
said. “I’m not blind to some of the personal challenges and some of the
positions that Trump has held in the past, that were not in keeping
with conservatism,” Shines said. “However, the moment that Trump explained
his position on Supreme Court justices and federal judges and said here’s where
I stand on school choice, etc., I don’t know why it’s taken any elected
Republican as long as it has to endorse his candidacy.”
Trump
faced a barrage of criticism last week over lewd remarks he
made about women in a caught-on-tape conversation in 2005 with former Access
Hollywood anchor Billy Bush. Trump apologized for his comments, but not
before a bevy of establishment Republicans withdrew their support of his
candidacy and demanded he leave the presidential race.
Shines
says, simply, “shame on those Republicans abandoning Trump.” “Shame on them. I
look at some of the congressmen and senators and governors who have pulled
their support of Trump following the fallout from his hot mic remarks, and I
think their abandonment is deplorable and despicable,” Shines said. “They may
not like Trump’s politically incorrect tone,” he continued, “but the
reality is we’re not voting for a man, we’re voting for a platform. When I look
at the Republicans who’ve abandoned Trump, I think to myself, ‘who’s your
second choice?’ And if they really adhere to the Christian values of
forgiveness and Trump has apologized and has said ‘I was wrong‘ then why not forgive,
instead of showing so much disdain for him?”
Shines
says the Republicans who’ve betrayed Trump for his transgressions rarely
exhibit the same level of anger after they fail to stop legislation “that
wreaks havoc on America.”
“Where is
this moral outrage when they’re passing bills that take our tax dollars to fund
abortion and Planned Parenthood, and other legislation that wreaks havoc
on America?” Shines asked. “Where was this same outrage when they failed their
constituents after Obamacare passed? Sure, Obamacare is falling
apart.
But they could’ve saved the American people from this pain by defunding it. The
House of Representatives has the power of the purse. They could’ve starved
Obamacare. But they didn’t want to look bad.”
Shines
continued: “A group of clergy spoke about how repulsed they were at the
comments Trump had made in 2005. I said, have we forgotten that the very
business that we’re in is to forgive and redeem those who, according to Hillary
Clinton, are not redeemable? Trump, again, has asked for forgiveness. Who are
we to deny him now?
“So I
think it’s silly. I think it’s childish,” Shines said. “I think it’s very
petulant, that so many of our leaders are not standing up with Donald Trump to
make sure that we have a Republican president sitting in the Oval Office who
will be able to governor as a conservative.”
After
entering the presidential race last June, Trump, beating out 16
other contenders, clenched the Republican Party’s
presidential nomination in July.
Shines
says Trump can credit much of his meteoric rise to the top of the
Republican presidential ticket to his unabashed willingness to call illegal
immigration a gambit that betrays American workers and in doing so, he’s
embarrassed both the Republican establishment and the so-called civil rights
community. “Illegal immigration matters a lot if you consider poverty among
many black and Latino Americans,” Shines said. “Illegal immigration, and even
President Obama has admitted this in the past, has caused
increased unemployment in the black community.”
Shines
points to people like Peter Kirsanow, an official with the U.S. Civil Rights
Commission, who’s long-argued that illegal immigration has severely depressed
the labor force participation rate of low-skilled black Americans, only to be routinely
ignored by
President Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus. “Granting work
authorization to millions of illegal immigrants will devastate the black
community, which is already struggling in the wake of the recession that began
in 2007 and the subsequent years of malaise,” Kirsanow wrote to Obama and the
Congressional Black Caucus in 2014.
“Illegal
immigration has a disparate impact on African-American men, because these men
are disproportionately represented in the low-skilled labor force.”
Shines
contends that the president’s past statements expose his current hypocrisy on
illegal immigration. “Obama himself talked about the straining of the social
safety net and the added burden illegal immigration places on the welfare
system,” Shines said, referencing
Obama’s autobiography,
The Audacity of
Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, where he lays out a
strong case that illegal immigration suppresses wages.
“There’s
no denying that many blacks share the same anxieties as many whites about
the wave of illegal immigration flooding our Southern border—a sense
that what’s happening now is fundamentally different from what has gone on
before,” then-Senator Obama
wrote
in his 2006 autobiography.
“The
number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude
not seen in this country for over a century,” Obama wrote. “If this huge influx
of mostly low-skill workers provides some benefits to the economy as a
whole—especially by keeping our workforce young, in contrast to an
increasingly geriatric Europe and Japan—it also threatens to depress further
the wages of blue-collar Americans and put strains on an already
overburdened safety net.”
Shines
says, “Under Obama, black unemployment has skyrocketed. Household median
income, the wage gap” are all going in the wrong direction.
However, Shines’
indictment of the Democratic Party’s failed social policies dates back decades.
“The trillions of dollars in payments
from various poverty programs that have trickled down to black people since the
’60s, what has it gotten them?” Shines asks. “What do they have to show for
it?”
“Thanks
to Democrats, black people, by and large, don’t have school choice. But the
majority of Congressional Black Caucus members send their children to private
schools,” Shines continued. “Hillary Clinton sent her child to private school.”
Roughly
70 percent of America’s k-12 students attend “assigned public schools.” What’s
more, recent public polling proves that black voters in
several states strongly support school-choice and suggests that many minority voters
favor the option to send their children to charter schools. “Again, Democrats
don’t want black parents to send their children to the school of their
choosing,” Shines said. “That shouldn’t be Hillary Clinton’s decision to make.”
“There’s
great irony in these Democratic party positions,” he said. “The same big
government liberals who want to put a man in the bathroom stall standing
next to our young daughters also wants to mandate where our children are
educated.” “The Democratic Party is fractured, it’s broken. The Republican
party has the answers.”
Bishop
Shines believes Trump’s candidacy has the potential to make history for the
Republican Party. “I know pastors that have never, ever voted for a Republican,
who will be voting for Donald Trump.” Shines said. “Why? They feel betrayed by
Barack Obama. The president’s push for same-sex marriage. These life-long
Democratic voters have buyers’ remorse. These
people are not homophobic, they just want traditional marriage. Black pastors
were livid over Obama’s support for same-sex marriage. And they now see the
deluge of destruction a moral decay that’s persisted for decades as a result of
Democrat policies.
Shines
said faith leaders “realize that the truth has been hidden from them, that the
establishment media — CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS — they’re not going to report the
truth.”
Before
our conversation ended, Bishop Shines made one more declaration. “If just 15
percent of black people gave the Republican Party their vote, the Democratic Party
would be history,” he said. “They could not survive that, ever.”
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