Evangelical Bishop Aubrey Shines slammed professional athletes and entertainers for protesting during the National Anthem or presentation of the American flag in a YouTube commentary on Friday. The bishop said they are being "stooges and pawns" for the Democratic party "plantation" and are furthering the "fake news narrative."





BISHOP AUBREY SHINES, SENIOR PASTOR G2G MINISTRIES: You've been bamboozled. You've been hoodwinked. In regard to those who serve in our police force by the way they're not taking our lives, they're defending our lives. Are you aware that blacks make up 13% of the population, yet they commit 50% of the homicides, by the way, against other blacks?



In 2012, police killed about 123 blacks, but twice that amount for whites. The same year, blacks killed over 6,000 mostly other blacks. In Chicago, just this year alone, 3,000 shootings, almost 600 murders. Every 12 hours someone in Chicago is murdered. NFL, NBA, entertainers, please listen. Please stop being pawns and flunkies and stooges for your political party and for those in the news media that incite the fake news narratives that actually inflames this deluge of ignorance that keeps you on their plantation. I'm Aubrey Shines, I'm senior pastor of G2G Ministries in Tampa, Florida.





