>> New York preacher with a vast history of anti-LGBTQ hate is facing allegations of abuse
against school children.
Pastor James Manning's church is classified as a hate group by the SPLC, but he is able
to run the school anyway.
He runs a kindergarten through 12th grade private school at the church.
The two units are called Great Tomorrow's USA Elementary Middle and Atlah High School.
And I'll give you, a level of, again, idea of the levels of his anti-gay agenda that
he preaches in church and through school.
At one point, according to four former congregants, so four, Manning even asked church followers
to defecate in a bag and leave it at gay-owned businesses.
This is a preacher.
>> No, he doesn't have issues at all.
>> Right, one former student said Manning had been sexually harassing her and touching
her inappropriately, so she secretly recorded him.
And they're not releasing her last name for her protection, but on the recording, Manning
can be heard complimenting her breasts and saying he wanted to pull up her skirt.
He also says he first started having feelings for her when she started at the Atlas school.
For the record, she was 14 when she started there and another former student told the
outlet that he was locked in a basement for three days by Manning as punishment for having
sex with a girl.
Multiple other former students say they were kicked out and there are apartments at the
church, like on this property.
So when you're kicked out of the church, kicked out of the school, you can be kicked out of
your home.
And multiple students say, as children, they were kicked out of their homes by Manning,
because he said they were gay.
And if you're a long time viewer you may remember, he kinda came at TYT, years ago.
Here he is back in 2012.
>> Appeared to me that this group, The Young Turks, who are they anyway?
I mean, are they people from Turkey or are they some sort of a street gang?
I mean I've never heard that guy's name.
I think his name is Cenk Uygur.
What kind of name is that anyway?
I mean, where was he born?
Was he born in the Baltics or where, Bosnia?
Was he born on some other planet? Why's he got a name like that in the first place?
And then the name Young Turks, why don't you speak English?
>> There's English there but that it gets even worse because he came after one of the
kindest humans ever.
JR Jackson.
>> This guy JR, let me say a word about him.
I don't know where he got his name.
JR Jackson, he's this guy Tonto, so you call Cenk the Lone Ranger this got J-JAR call him
Tonto cuz he's a sidekick.
>> That's so mean, okay, no, no, he's not about the mean, this guy's a clown extraordinaire.
I'm actually I'm not at all surprised by this, though there is one element I'm very surprised
by.
But I'm kinda bummed that it's taking a depressing turn.
His hatred was so over the top that it was comical.
It's not comical when they leave the poop on people's front door, right?
But so he at some point came on the Young Turks, okay?
And so, he got famous for a little while for a number of crazy things that he said, including
about Obama.
And then he said that Starbucks was putting semen in its coffee.
Now get a load of this rest of the theory, because it would obviously make it taste more
delicious, okay, and I was like hm.
>> That's weird.
>> Okay, so then he came on the Young Turks and we asked him about whether you if you're
interested talking about in prison and guys doing and we said, well, then would you be
interested in that?
And he stumbled a little bit like, well, who wouldn't be?
And we're like really?
That's kind of fascinating, right?
So the part of the story I'm surprised by is that he was going after the young girls,
cuz I honestly, the minute I saw the headline I was like I knew it and I thought it was
gonna be young boys.
Cuz I mean who talks about how delicious semen is and how people are trying trick others
into going to places just to drink it.
That's not a thing that normal people say.
By normal, don't get me wrong, there's no gay people saying that either like, Starbucks,
there they go trying to trick straight people into going by doing that trick, right?
Nobody sane thinks that.
But now unfortunately, it's taken a turn here because, I mean going after 14-year-old girls,
no no no no.
We need to have a police investigation, all right?
>> She was the one that was brave enough to say something.
You don't know who has been sexually abused.
And with the stigma that African American, that black boys and brown boys have to deal
with their sexuality, it's very rare that they come forward when they're sexually abused,
especially by a man because if it's a woman and then it feeds the macho thing.
But if it's not, if it's a man, then it implicates that you might be homosexual.
So pedophiles, molesters, they molest children.
What bothers me about this is one, when people accuse gay people of being inappropriate with
children.
Gay people have their sexual preference.
Pedophiles have a preference of children and I hate when they try to commingle the two.
The other thing is there's this big conspiracy that the white America and the establishment
are trying to emasculate black men, so that we don't further, that there's an agenda.
Even if there is an agenda, it is our responsibility to our own to protect our village.
And the way we treat our own, which is that this is one thing that we don't like to talk
about because it makes us uncomfortable.
When you hear what Kevin Hart says or when you hear Tracey Morgan saying these things
and you demonize them.
But you don't go to the root of the issue, which is in our communities through this religion
we are taught that homosexuality is an abomination.
And we do not treat our people within our family who are part of the LGBTQ reality with
kindness.
We shun them and we are abusive.
My uncle was murdered in a hate crime.
And I think it's very important that we have these conversations.
With him it is the chickens coming home to roost.
You watch the video, any time you see somebody that's so preoccupied with other peoples'
sexuality, there's always something in the dark about them.
Cuz I don't go to sleep worrying about other people and what they're doing.
>> That is such that whenever somebody just goes out of their way to be just outwardly
hateful like this, they are hiding something.
Looks like he was hiding that he likes kids.
Bill Cosby spewed this anti black rhetoric for years and it turns out he was hiding rape.
There's always something.
>> I mean Brook, that's like the most classy example in a sense because you remember the
comment Cosby used to make most to African-American kids, pull your pants up.
And it turned out, the main problem with Bill Cosby was he had his pants down.
And I think that it literally was a subconscious metaphor, and they do this projection thing.
Now, look at what Pastor Manning locked up the kid in the basement for, for having sex
with a girl.
I don't know if it was the same girl he wanted to have sex with, but they do outward projections.
That's why I was surprised that the scandal wasn't that he turned out to be gay, cuz he
attacks gay people with such fervor that I thought for sure that that's what he was hiding.
But it turns out he might be hiding something else, which might be this pedophilia issue.
>> That's what all cult leaders do too, punish young boys, because nobody is allowed to have
interaction with women except for the cult leader.
>> Stop beating our children when you find out they're having sex with people of the
same sex or others.
And sit down and talk to our children.
We have so much misinformation but I wanna say this because somebody came at me on Twitter
about this, JR is nobody's Tonto.
JR is a black man that stands up for black people and all people in humanity daily.
That whole misconception that Jake has this thing going on where he has us all under his
command.
And the reason that we're on here is because we talk about what he wants us to talk about
is a lie.
I've never been bullied here.
I disagree with everybody here when I can.
If I disagree, I disagree.
Nobody brings me here so that I can recite talking points.
They brought us here so that we can give a voice to people who don't have a voice because
when you look at mainstream media you don't see that.
So that whole thing you guys, stop, don't come at me with that.
And that's disrespectful to people who are out here really talking the talk, because
the offices, the TYT.
I've been to the offices where the money is been throwing at people to tell the lies.
That does not exist here.
These people come here to work every day to tell stories like the story about Trayvon
Martin with Ben Crump where nobody would tell it when it happened.
And we need to stop talking about people of color because they don't agree with you and
calling people sell-outs and Tantos and all of that.
We need solidarity and it begins with you.
Nobody here is saying what they're telling us to say.
>> Okay, can I just when you were talking Aida, I just realized something, that too
is projection.
Because what do you see in the rest of the media?
You see executives hiring people with a certain point of view.
They just have common assumptions, right?
And their assumptions are the status quo is pretty good.
Let's keep that going.
And if you disturb the status quo you're being uncivil.
>> Yep.
>> Right and so we said but we need change, because for example, black people are being
arrested at four times the rate for smoking marijuana when they smoke it at the same rates
as white people.
Black people being shot, but also non-racial issues, progressive issues, etc.
No, no, no, come on.
If you're gonna have change it has to be nice and easy and really small.
Hey, look at that, I hired every anchor that has the same opinion as I, as the executives
do.
But we don't do that here.
And that is why oftentimes people then turn around and criticize us.
Why do you have this guy on the network?
Why do you have that person on the network?
They don't agree with you.
I know, and that's okay because we're trying to have real conversations here among adults.
And oftentimes we agree.
And sometimes we disagree, cuz that's what real people do.