With the election of Donald Trump who once questioned the birthplace of the first black president Barak Obama black churches in Delaware consoled their flocks.
The Reverend Donald Morton with the Tabernacle Full Gospel Baptist Cathedral in Wilmington urged his congregation to pray for the nation.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that he said was fearful for what Trump’s ascendancy to the presidency would mean for the black community.
He told the congregation, “You’ve got to pray that God keep him from doing the things he says he’s going to do.”
Richard March Against Trump
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Several hundred people have marched through Richmond to protest the election of Republican Donald Trump.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that the march began at Virginia Commonwealth University on Saturday. Protesters carried signs and chanted "we reject the president elect" and "my fist goes up until Trump steps down."
Saturday's event was the latest in a string of protests that have occurred in Richmond since Trump's election. Protests were also being held Saturday in several cities across the country.
Three Confederate statues were vandalized and a dozen people were arrested during a Richmond protest on Wednesday night. Graffiti on the side of a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis said, "Your vote was a hate crime."
Vandalism
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) - Diocesan officials say an Episcopal church in a heavily Latino suburb of Washington has been vandalized with a racist message that mentions President-elect Donald Trump.
Jim Naughton, a spokesman for Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde (BUD-ee) of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, says the vandalism occurred Saturday night at the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour in Silver Spring. He says a banner advertising the church's Spanish-language service was slashed, and the words "Trump nation. Whites only" were written on the back.
Naughton says the same phrase was written on a brick wall in the memorial garden of the parish.
The bishop was scheduled to visit the parish Sunday afternoon and stand in solidarity with the rector of the church, parishioners, lay leaders and interfaith supporters.
