Jim Bakker Show - Why I Could Not Stay Silent - David Harris Jr on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2019-04-17
Duration: 02:09


=== Why I Couldn't Stay Silent (02:09) ===

[00:00:00]  What caused you to say I can't stay silent any longer?
[00:00:05]  You were brought up in a Christian home?
[00:00:07]  I was brought up in a Christian home.
[00:00:09]  And for me, my mom always taught me to and told me to vote my values.
[00:00:14]  She said, look at what these candidates, don't look at what they're just saying, but look at how they're voting.
[00:00:20]  And the issue on life is really, to me, the biggest issue.
[00:00:23]  I mean, it's an issue that, as a Christian, how could we ever support a candidate that supports taking the life of an unborn baby?
[00:00:30]  Exactly.
[00:00:31]  It's just murder.
[00:00:32]  And it's something that there was no way that I could ever.
[00:00:36]  So I was a minority, so to speak, within the minority, right?
[00:00:40]  There's Hispanics are minorities, blacks are minorities.
[00:00:42]  Well, I'm a mixture of both.
[00:00:44]  And so I dealt with that growing up.
[00:00:45]  I lived in a predominantly white town, right in California.
[00:00:48]  I was raised there, born there, raised there.
[00:00:50]  My grandfather was the first African-American chaplain for that county in the 60s.
[00:00:55]  But there were the black folks that were like, well, you're not dark enough, or you don't fit in because I had mostly white friends, not because I chose it that way, but just because that's all that's in my class.
[00:01:05]  I just, I made friends with people that, you know, I messed with and that liked me and that we, you know, could do things together.
[00:01:12]  So, but for me, the issue of abortion was something that I could never agree with.
[00:01:19]  And so when I saw the third presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and I saw Hillary continue to support her abortion stance and Donald Trump just say, absolutely not, we need to support life, I just couldn't stay silent anymore.
[00:01:36]  I went on my Facebook page.
[00:01:38]  I only had a couple thousand friends.
[00:01:40]  I didn't have a Facebook following.
[00:01:42]  I just poured my heart out for 13, 14 minutes.
[00:01:45]  As an American, as a father, as a husband, as a black man in America, this is why I feel like we have to support Donald Trump.
[00:01:52]  And the messages just began to flood in on my inbox on Facebook from women, from men, from blacks, Asians, Hispanics that said, my whole life I've been a Democrat.
[00:02:03]  I've always voted Democrat.
[00:02:04]  My family are all Democrats.
[00:02:06]  But after hearing your message, there's no way I can support Hillary.