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Roland Martin Calls White Evangelicals ‘Frauds’ and Trump a ‘Fake Christian’
Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to curry their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord.
— Colossians 3:22, Holy Bible, New International Version
Yesterday, March 1st, independent journalist Roland Martin appeared on MSNBC’s Sunday morning talk fest with Ali Velshi and lit the joint up.
The question on the table, as posed by Velshi, was from whence comes Donald Trump’s apparently rock-hard support among Christian evangelicals, and why?
After some light banter between Velshi and Martin about their shared African origin (Velshi was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1969, while Martin was born in Houston in ‘68, but traces his “roots” back to the West African nation-state of Sierra Leone), they proceeded to get down to business. This little tete-à-tete piqued my curiosity about Martin. Of course, for the last decade and more he has been ubiquitous on cable television. And I knew he had spent some time here in Chicago in a failed attempt to revive one of the nation’s premier black newspapers, The Chicago Defender. But that’s all I really knew about this man. So, I looked him up.
