Posted on 02/25/2025 7:47:44 PM PST by Morgana
Megachurch Pastor Jamal Bryant called a group of black supporters of President Donald Trump “runaway slaves” and “coons” on Sunday after they appeared to mock him at a recent Black History Month reception at the White House.
In a clip from his sermon on Sunday, the leader of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, highlighted a video from the reception, which first appeared on the X profile of prominent black Trump supporter, podcast host and entrepreneur David Harris Jr.
The video, then shared on X by The Grio Senior White House Correspondent April Ryan on Friday, shows a black Trump supporter at the reception with a cardboard cutout of Bryant’s head in the crowd as they celebrated the appointment of FBI Director Kash Patel.
“Here at the Black History Month celebration at the White House. Everybody here, Kash Patel has been confirmed as the FBI director. Who’s ready for some heads to roll?” Harris asked the group.
“Kash, I know you got the receipts. Hold them mother suckas accountable,” he continued as the supporter in the crowd bobbed the cutout of Bryant’s head.
“That’s right,” said Harris with a wry grin acknowledging the megachurch pastor’s likeness. “Jamal, yeah. That’s right.” Black supporters of President Donald Trump including podcast host and entrepreneur David Harris Jr., mocked Pastor Jamal Bryant at a Black History Month reception held at the White House on Feb. 20. 2025.
Bryant, who is pushing a 40-day boycott of retail giant Target over the company's abandonment of its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, did not take the dig at him lightly.
"These runaway slaves hiding in the White House going to throw my picture up thinking I'm going to be afraid. If you got real courage, don't show my picture. Show the picture of the one that fired the black joint chief of staff from the military. If you going to show a picture, show a picture of the CEO of Target, Walmart, McDonald's, and Amazon that does not recognize black dollars or black business," Bryant said as he recited a list of apparent wrongs he attributes to the Trump administration.
"If you going to put up a picture, put up a picture of the state legislators in Florida that are banning black books, put up a picture of the one stealing classified information from the IRS and Social Security. … Put up a picture of those that don't want your mama to pay $35 for insulin."
Bryant, who has long expressed his disdain for Trump and Republicans, said they miscalculated his background if they expected to make him scared.
"I ain't ever scared. In case you forgot, I'm from the West Side of Baltimore. If you've got a problem, pull up on me!" he declared to thunderous shouts from his congregants.
"Harriet Tubman said whenever I tried to make our people be free, there were a few negroes that tried to go backwards and tried to risk our freedoms. I feel bad for them coons in the White House who were in their tap dancing for massa [master], wearing bow tie shinning and grinning. … Get out of there negro and stand with your people," he declared.
In a statement to WSB-TV 2 Bryant said he was surprised he was singled out as a potential target for the FBI to investigate.
"To be singled out at a White House reception as a potential target to be 'held accountable' by the newly appointed FBI director was not on my 2025 bingo card. ... But let me be clear that no amount of intimidation or political pressure will silence the truth," Bryant said.
"I stand firm in my commitment to speak out against this administration or any corporation that seeks to erode generations of progress among marginalized communities. It is not only my right but it's our collective responsibility as citizens to hold the powerful accountable. At this critical moment, we must collectively resist any radical actions that threaten the very foundations of our democracy."
After black inner-city pastors prayed with Trump at the White House in 2018, during Trump's first term, Bryant posted on social media that the event was nothing more than a "photo op."
In 2015, when Trump was running his first campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, Bryant called black pastors who met with Trump worse than prostitutes.
"I want to apologize because prostitutes get money," Bryant, who served at Empowerment Temple church in Baltimore, Maryland, at the time, said on CNN. "And the 100 that went in there walked away with nothing, they did it for free. So there's another word for that and I would not use that language on the family channel."
Speaking from the pulpit during the 2022 Georgia U.S. Senate race, Bryant called black Republican candidate Herschel Walker, a former NFL football player, the "lowest caricature of a stereotypical, broken black man."
"Since Herschel Walker was 16 years old, white men been telling him what to do, telling him what school to go to, where to live … where to pay for abortions, where to buy a gun, and you think they not going to tell him how to vote?" Bryant asked. "In 2022, we don't need a Walker, we need a runner. We need somebody to run and tell the truth about Jan. 6. Georgia, I need you to know, the slave negro y'all are used to don't live here no more. We can think for ourselves, function for ourselves, and vote for ourselves! Why? Because we don't need a Walker."
Must be liberation theology.
Jamal is a moron, plain and simple.
He views blacks as property of the democrat party and run-aways if they vote republican, so yes he is still working for the old masters.
“Jamal is a moron, plain and simple.”
Majority of Democrats are. It is worse when they call themselves a pastor then insult their flock.
“so yes he is still working for the old masters.”
I wonder if he got USAID money and now he is bitter?
Republicans freed slaves, Democrats wanted to keep them that way.
I’d like to find a recording of what Margarrt Sanger said about finding charismatic black preachers to convince blacks to kill themselves off willingly. I think it would be good for this guy to be confronted with that.
Jamal, I haven’t thought about him in a coons age. I think he is just a slave to his old Democrat thinking. He needs to leave that plantation behind and get on board the MAGA train. There’s room enough for everyone that is a patriot.
Sounds pretty racist to me actually.
They claim they are not racist and then use racist words. They are so blind.
Jamal might find out that they are not listening any longer. The slaves are leaving the cotton fields.
Imagine a Black man using a name like “Jamal” - a name that comes from your ancestors’ Muslim enslavers.
His comments seem wrong.
/sarc
He’s what slaves used to call a House Ni..ah” - one who lives in the house, wearing fancy clothes, helping his Democrat Massa keep tight control on all the field hands, ratting out their plans to escape.
Ironic, huh? :)
Yep. He’s a good stepnfetchit for his white liberal masters..
Jamal has to keep all of the slaves on whitey’s DNC plantation.
If they are runaway slaves, Jamal, then where did they run away from if they are celebrating with Trump?
I was thinking just the same thing as I read his rants. He offers absolutely no proof or examples to support his allegations. He is just repeating the same old tired tirades. I really wonder if he is actually a preacher or if he got some kind of mail order "ordination" from a Cracker Jack box. He's using it to bring himself some big bucks and chastise blacks who sought to leave the ol' plantation.
Yeah, he's a real moron, no doubt about that.
That’s pretty ugly
When this pastor shows up to check in at the Pearly Gates, he’s going to have a lot of explaining to do. Hope he likes his environment on the warm side.
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