Duchess Harris, professor for African-American history, says Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde was justified in criticizing Trump, as he had previously criticized her church.
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00:00But some might say that Bishop Buddy was using the pulpit to challenge an elected official,
00:09the elected leader of the country, and that she should have stuck to, you know, her job
00:15and not to challenge the president of the country.
00:18How do you respond to that sort of narrative?
00:20Well, in African-American tradition, we have something called call and response.
00:25And so President Trump called, and she responded.
00:30And so that is within the purview of the role that she has as a bishop in a church that
00:37he has criticized previously.