Tom Joyner to Juanita Bynum: "Are you telling your flock to vote for Obama?" [View All]

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Normally, I'm a huge supporter of radio personality Tom Joyner. Specifically, I love the work that he has done to support our historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

But lately, he's been more and more of a disappointment to me, especially with his advancing this notion that Black America should support Obama for President, because he's Black.

And Tom reached a new low on yesterday. He was interviewing Prophetess Juanita Bynum, who he ran into over the weekend at the Oprah Winfrey fundraiser for Obama.

During the interview, he said to Juanita Bynum: “I’m glad to see you supporting Barack Obama, as I am too. Are you telling your flock to vote for Obama?”

Is Tom Joyner really that clueless? I do not know whether Bynum's church is tax exempt or not, but if her church has a tax exempt status, then I believe that would be illegal for her to tell her "flock" to vote for a specific candidate.

Even more importantly, Tom Joyner's suggestion that someone in the ministry needs to tell their congregation who to vote for, is especially dangerous. Does he believe people aren't smart enough to decide on their own who to vote for; that somehow they need to be told who to vote for?

Whatever happened to just telling folks to vote their own best interests, and leaving it up to them to decide who presents their best interests?