VP Pence Visits Black Church and Gets an Ear Full

VP Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, were guests at the historic Black Metropolitan Baptist Church in Maryland on Sunday. The church’s pastor, Maurice Watson, told his congregation that he felt “led by God” to speak out against the president’s comments about Haiti and African countries calling Trump’s remarks “dehumanizing” and “ugly.” Watson noted that many of his congregants come from Haiti and Africa. “I stand today as your pastor to vehemently denounce and reject any such characterizations of the nations of Africa and of our brothers and sisters in Haiti,” Watson said as the audience stood and clapped. “And I further say: Whoever made such a statement, whoever used such a visceral, disrespectful, dehumanizing adjective to characterize the nations of Africa, whoever said it, is wrong. And they ought to be held accountable.” Local TV station WUSA-TV reported that Pence was red-faced during the sermon. See the video clip here.