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Black conservative expert criticizes Jamal Bryant after viral video

Before the president appeared, a group of participants gathered in the White House and expected Trump's arrival.

In a video published on the social media platform X, the conservative commentator and Newsmax2 moderator David Harris Jr. is celebrated with other black participants, not long after Kash Patel was confirmed as director of the FBI.

“Here at Black History Month Celebration in the White House,” says Harris Jr., while filming himself and the group.

“Everyone here, Kash Patel was confirmed as a FBI director!” He cheered. “Who is ready to roll a few heads? Kash, I know you got the receipts. Hold them into the mother's vacuum cleaner! “

The participants celebrated the news behind Harris Jr., one of whom contained a neckline from Bryant's head and shook them in front of the camera.

“Jamal, yes. That's right, ”said Harris Jr. during the laugh.

Anti-Trump-black activists and commentators immediately called out the participants of the White House on social media.

Bryant, an Atlanta-based pastor and activist, vehemently criticized the Trump administration and anti-black racism. Before the White House event, he promised a community-wide 40-day fasting of Target after the company announced that he would reset the efforts with the oncoming Trump administration.

After the event, Bryant A published Opinion.

“At a reception of the White House as a potential goal of being held accountable by the newly appointed FBI director” was not on my Bingo card from 2025, “he said.

“I am firmly in my commitment to comment on this administration or company that are looking for [sic] Undermined generations of progress between marginalized communities, ”continued the explanation.

Bryant also mentioned the excerpt of the White House in a sermon entitled “We will never be afraid” on the following Sunday in the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church.

He mocked his picture, which was shown, and insisted that it should be replaced by pictures of federal civil servants and company managers, of which he claimed that they were responsible for reducing diversity and inaccessible health care.

“I'm never afraid if you forgot it,” said Bryant that enthusiastic New birthday congregation. “If you have a problem, start!”

Credit: Seeger Gray / AJC

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Harris Jr., a loyal Trump supporter, became viral in June 2024 because he had released a video when he was sitting in a first class flight and was wearing the T-shirt he was wearing.

The political commentator is also an author, a self-proclaimed, pious Christian, an opponent of abortion and a co-founder (together with his wife) of the health and wellness company that R3 lives.

In an e -mail exchange with UATL, Harris Jr. claimed that his excitement for patel confirmation had nothing to do with Bryant.

“My intention to make this video was to announce the space that Kash Patel had been confirmed, and there are many people in the government that I think they have to be held accountable,” Harris jr wrote.

He said that the excerpt wasn't and he didn't know who did it.

“Then someone held up the Jamal Bryant sign that, in my opinion, had nothing to do with Kash Patel,” wrote Harris jr ..

FBI Director Kash Patel React after a Swearing-in Ceremony in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building On The White House Grounds in Washington, Feb. 21, 2025. In a call with top agents, Kash Patel, The New Director of the Fead Bureau of Investigation, Discussed Fitness standards, playing on the Bureau's hockey team, and partnering with ultimate fighting championship. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)

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Harris Jr. noticed that he had never met Bryant, but would be interested in talking to the pastor.

“Bryant seems to promote a version of Christianity that I cannot find in the Bible,” wrote Harris Jr.

“Jesus never taught us to separate us on the basis of the color of our skin, but said that the true worshipers of God will worship in the spirit and in truth.”

Harris Jr. then criticized Bryant's alleged views on reproductive rights.

“The only scripture that I could find that really reflects Jamal Bryant teaches at the beginning of Genesis,” wrote Harris.

“In the Garden of Eden, the snake twisted the words of God to match his own agenda, which led to the case of humanity. When someone distorts the truth to promote their own ideology and to present them as God's Word, they act in the same deceptive and demonic spirit as this original snake. “

Jamal Bryant delivers his first sermon as the official pastor of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest. Steve Schaefer / Special for the AJC

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Bryant refused to comment on Harris' views. On February 27, he published a column with the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

“Let me realize that no intimidation or political pressure will silence the truth,” wrote Bryant.

“It is our collective responsibility as a citizen to take the powerful accountability, and at this critical moment we have to resist all radical actions that threaten the basics of our democracy.”


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