THE LIFE OF A BLACK REPUBLICAN

In 2008 I switched political parties. Up to that point I had been a lifelong democrat. I still remember the first election I voted in: 1988 Bush v Dukakis. I was simply heartbroken when Dukakis lost.

In 2001 I finished law school, and I started working as an educational advocate. I started working under the IDEA. I was going to save the world. In my journey as an advocate, I came across countless laws aimed at helping to end the cycle of poverty. I also came into contact with a lot of government officials. I started seeing the hypocrisy. Democrats did not really want poor people to get it to together. They wanted to be the saviors of the poor! Just the poor! The democrat laws helped, as long as black folk were classified as poor. Move into the middle class and the democrats laws no longer helped.

So to keep in line the black folk that had moved into the middle class, democrats used racial politics. The democrats constantly reminded black folk; "No matter how much success you gain the republicans are always looking to make you all slaves again!" so vote DEMOCRAT!

Obama came along in 2008 and it was 1964 again. Obama whole message was "THEY HATE ME BECAUSE I AM BLACK!" I just could not agree with his politics. I knew that that was not true, I knew there were countless laws that had been enacted to help move black people out of poverty. I switched parties. I changed my party affiliation on my voter identification card. I would try and talk to other blacks about what being a republican stood for, but to no avail. I was a race trader.

I have spent my whole professional life helping kids and yet I am treated like vermin by the black establishment democrats.

So now more blacks are waking up, the racial rhetoric has reached and all time high! Keep the black folk down. Maybe one day black folk will really vote their circumstance and not on their skin color.

But my political views have impacted the non-profit. Black republicans don't get asked to speak to schools. Black republicans don't get donations. But we fight on!