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I'm so holy girl's happy to behere. Thank you for allowing me to
join with you this morning. Absolutelyso, Hugh, what was that like?
You had a really interesting moment ona stage there and an opportunity to
make an impact with that platform.Well, I wish I could take the
credit, but I don't deserve anyof the credit. I didn't write one
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word of that speech. I knowthat may surprise some of your listeners,
but when you are speaking at aconvention, there is a three week process
that you have to go through,and President Trump and the RN see they
have such a talented team. However, I knew that something needed different since
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President Trump got shot. I knewthat the nation needed to hear a different
tone. They needed a different message. And I've been preaching since I was
nineteen years old. So for meto stand up behind what I would call
a pool kit and literally freeze,I was frozen. If you take a
look at the video. I didnot know what to say, but the
Good Lord opened my mouth, hefilled my mouth with his words, and
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he uplifted a nation. So you'resaying that they wrote it, or that
this came from divine inspiration, Itwas literally divine inspiration. Remember when you
are writing a message with the RNC, or you're writing a message, it
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has to go through legal I meanit's a complete process. Right. You
can imagine what needs to happen inorder to secure a message. And when
I stood up, I just knewthat because the millimeter miracle, I knew
that the message needed to be different. I knew that the message had to
be something that was not something youcouldn't write down, something that you couldnt
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pre plan. It needed to beinspired by the Good Lord. Yeah,
and uh, I know I understandthat as somebody that talks for a living,
I get it. A lot ofthis stuff, the best stuff anyway,
it doesn't doesn't come for me.I get that. So the message
that that you that you did giveand of course the the inspiration behind it
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all that we're talking about these things, if people didn't hear it, uh,
and we played clips of it fromthe last week. But what what's
the bottom line? What do theyneed to know? What do they need
to take away from where we arein the country right now and where we're
headed. Yeah, I believe themain thing is providence and sovereignty. Right,
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I believe the main thing that peoplecould take away regardless of what they
feel about for President Donald Trump,because there is what I would call Trump
direclment syndrome. Right, I believethat people hear his name and there becomes
a visceral response. However, youcannot deny that what happened to him in
Butler, Pennsylvania was a miracle.So that was the first thing. The
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second thing that I believe that theGood Lord did in that speech and was
he wanted all of us to understandthat'mre just one millimeter away right from
a miracle, and we need totake those small steps so that we can
be able to step into God's providentand sovereignty. And the third thing is
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the willingness to go into areas thatare uncomfortable, the willingness to go into
areas that are the least of these. And this is quite frankly what the
Democrats do not do. They takethose areas for granted, right, They
take areas that I serve Detroit,Pontiac, Flint, and Saginaw, those
areas where the disenfranchised, the marginalized, the pushed aside are the Trump He
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came there, he received prayer,and I believe with everything inside of me
that the Good Lord thirty days laterprotected him from what could have been a
fatality. You know, that's aninterest sting point. And you know,
I don't look at it this way, but I know that the identity politics
and things like that are heavy inthe Democrat Party, and unfortunately, I
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think that's divisive by nature. Ithink that's the intention of all of it.
But you, as a black manin Detroit, you're speaking from experience
that it sounds like they haven't necessarilyfulfilled everything that they said they would do.
And there are a lot of peoplethat are finding this and seeing this
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now, particularly in this day andage, and they're seeing that President Trump
and Republicans have a different idea.They want they want to come to Detroit,
they want to come to your churchand hear from people and and say
we want to bring people together,use a unity message. There. What
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is the difference and why should peoplebe encouraged by that? Well, President
Trump, he did something Republicans havenever done in our context. We know
that history speaks to how the RepublicanParty is actually the anti racist party.
That's why I started one hundred andseventy years ago. However, in the
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last sixty years and my context specifically, Republicans have not come. But when
he came, he set a newtone and trajectory. And the Democratic Party
what has happened is they have playedthe identity politics game for so long and
their virtue city signaling as if theycare about black people, because it's a
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party where people say, if youdon't vote Democrat, you're not black.
And I had a phone call yesterdaywith a woman whom I've sent her,
a young lady to her daughter toweeak school. She called me crying yesterday
because I went to the RNC.I want you to think about that for
a segame. Right, She's ablack woman, she's a city council woman
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in the city that I mentioned thatyou all will know because we're from the
same context. And she called crying, saying I broke her heart because I
went to the RNC. That's howheavy and how thick in terms of the
emotional grip and grab that the DemocraticParty has on black people's paradigm in terms
of politics. But yeah, whenyou look at our streets, I mean
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you're in the Metro Detroit area,look at our streets. I mean walk
down the streets of Flint, Taymyeand Betroit Saginaw, and you will find
some of the most unsafe communities inAmerica. Our kids cannot read, cannot
safe people, our communities, theydo not own homes. The trade was
voted the media city in America.I believe it was two thousand and one,
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because of safe safety, because ofaccess to healthcare, and because of
home value. So there has beennothing. There was a song years ago,
what have you done for me lately? Ooh ooh yeah. And at
the end of the day, theDemocratic Party has nothing for right people lately.
What would you like to see done? You know, obviously President Trump
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talks about doing things for all peoplein Americaana rising tide lifts all boats.
But what would you specifically like tosee done? What are you looking for?
Yeah, there's four things. There'stransportation, housing, education and healing,
medical, mental and genal illnesses tH E M. We need to
transport our community to resources so theycan be called resource. Get to solve
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the transportation issue. The second oneis housing. We need to shift our
communities atmosphere so we can shift theirparadigm. If you can change the way
people live, you can change theway they think we need to offer education
private Christian schools. I believe isvery important, heart skills, soft skills,
formal education, in formal education.We need to give our community a
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hand up and out of handout.We also need to walk with our entrepreneur's
hand in hand. And the fourthone is the medical, mental anddental illnesses,
those unseen illnesses we need to havekilled in our communitym Jesus said,
what we do for them, wedo for him. And that's what I
would love to see our communities doin order to take our communities out of
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poverty. We original soul with usright now. He is the pastor of
one Indy church in Detroit, andthe same church if President Trump visited back
in his trip here at the TPUSA, and of course the pastor who spoke
at the RNC last week and gavea give an inspired message. Pastor,
let me ask you, we've justseen the latest. It seems like after
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President Trump survived the assassination attempt,that milimeter miracle, as you put it,
and there's no doubt in my mindthat was divine intervention. There's just
no way to describe it. Ithink it takes more faith to believe that
was a coincidence or what was luckthan it does to believe that God's hand
was on him during that time.But after the RNC was so successful and
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they really started to see a shift, the calls intensified. Biden steps down,
and now without any voting done atall, it appears that Kamala Harris
will be the era apparent. Alot of that is going to be driven
by identity politics. What's your takeon this the latest attempt from Democrats and
what do you expect to come outof it. It's a great opportunity for
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the Republican Party and this is wheremen like me can say things, quite
frankly, that White America cannot say. If we're going to play identity politics
and we want to talk about blackpeople and we want to talk about black
women, we need to talk abouta black woman's womb. We need to
talk about the grave of over nineteenmillion black babies. We need to talk
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about the most dangerous place for ablack child is in his mother. We
need to begin to look at youngwomen, specifically young black and brown women,
and we need to begin to letthem know that planned prayerenthood, they
have started genocide amongst black babies byputting eighty percent of their facilities in black
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communities. So, if we're goingto talk about black women, and we're
going to talk about black people,the Republican Party has an opportunity to take
quite frankly, voices like by tospeak to women like my mother right who
raised me, a strong black woman, who went through domestic violence, who
had two or three jobs, who'sthe only Black woman at Beaumont Hospital when
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she was a surgical technologist, nevermade any excuses, got off of welfare,
right, moved us out of thehood hood and made sure we could
get the education that we have.I need to have a conversation with those
black women in order for them tounderstand that the Democratic Party have deceive them
and that Kamala Harris has been goodfor them, that she's incarcerating more black
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men right with her as a prosecutorcaliber, and we need to have a
real conversations to begin to get peoplethinking about their vote and their voice this
November. Yeah, Kamala Harris saysquite a track record. As you just
spoke about some of the things thatshe did in California as a prosecutor,
absolutely abhorrent I think some of that'sgoing to come out. Do you with
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the with that impressed, will thatmake an impact on folks in the black
community or do or do you thinkthat more of this just blanket and the
machine pushing the you know, theblanket identity politics is going to prevail over
that. What do you think happens? Well, the Republicans, they're their
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own biggest worst enemy, right,they have a great message, they just
oftent have send the wrong messengers.Right, So what needs to happen is
you have to have the right messengers. You need to have coalitions of black
leaders, coalitions of those who arein the community quite frankly, that can
begin to have those dialogues. Andwhen that happens, then we will beginning
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to see a paradigm shift. Butwe're what one hundred and five days out.
I mean, we need to startnow. We need to start messaging
it away and having conversations in away. I was in a dialogue yesterday
on x You had over twelve hundredpeople that want this dialogue, and the
dialogue was reparations. Now, Ihad no idea that I was going to
be on this phone call and theywere going to have this conversation with me.
But Republicans need to be president.Black conservatives me, I liken them
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too coming out of the closet.Back in the sixties and seventies, right,
remember when if you were in theLGBTQ plus community, you would come
out the closet. It was aterrifying thing, right, and a lot
of black conservatives they're afraid to comeout the closet. But look at the
LGBTQ plus community. Now, they'vecreated comfort inconvenience. They've passed legislation,
they've had months named after them,they are flags named after them now,
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right because they made it comfortable forthem to come out the closet. So
it been by conservatives. You haveso many people that are calling me that
I didn't know how democratic positions,but yet they vote conservative and they want
to come out the closet, butthey don't have the mechanism to do that.
And that's what one of my goalsare in the next one hundred days,
to make sure that black conservatives cancome out of the closet. Well,
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let me know if there's anything wecan do to support you and that
aim and that effort. Love thatyou give it a platform to say what
you did and to put the spotlightwhere you did, of course at the
convention, at your church and ona daily basis. Past Lorenzo so is
with us right now from one anychurch. If folks want to get in
touch with you, maybe follow youfind out more. What's the best way
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for them to do that? Well, they can do through social media right
while all the social media channel's Myname is Lorenzo l O R E n
z O, last named Sewell sewE L L in this one eighty church
one eight zero church dot c C. We want to go to our website.
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They got to come to church,right. Do we have a ten
o'clock service? We got eleven thirtyservice. Last Sunday we saw our church
almost double with my Republican brothers comingout by conservative. Yeah, it was
really cool. It's been so funseeing the support from the Conservatives. I
mean, you had so many peoplecome out and just worship Jesus and a
church in the community that's a tougharea and it's been really encouraging. I
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hope that this support continues to growbecause we really need it. As we
get closer to November fifth. PastorLorenzo Soul and the want any church in
Detroit. Thank you so much fortaking the time. God bless you.
We appreciate you and everything you're doing. God bless you to thank you so much.