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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGregory Cheadle, Trump's fav black guy, is leaving the GOP.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/man-trump-once-called-my-african-american-leaves-republican-partyGregory Cheadle, the black man President Donald Trump once described at a rally as my African American, is fed up.
After two years of frustration with the presidents rhetoric on race and the lack of diversity in the administration, Cheadle told PBS NewsHour he has decided to leave the Republican party and run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representative as an independent in 2020.
Now, the 62-year-old real estate broker, who supported the Republican approach to the economy, said he sees the party as pursuing a pro-white agenda and using black people like him as political pawns. The final straw for Cheadle came when he watched many Republicans defend Trumps tweets telling four congresswomen of color, who are all American citizens, to go back to their countries, as well as defend the presidents attacks on Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and his comments that Cummings hometown of Baltimore is infested.
President Trump is a rich guy who is mired in white privilege to the extreme, said Cheadle, of Redding, Calif., who switched from being an independent to a Republican in 2001. Republicans are too sheepish to call him out on anything and they are afraid of losing their positions and losing any power themselves.
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Gregory Cheadle, Trump's fav black guy, is leaving the GOP. (Original Post)
pnwmom
Sep 2019
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guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)1. So Trump's support among African Amerian voters is now at zero? eom
JHB
(37,128 posts)2. I think he still has the "Blacks for Trump" guy...
This success with the GOP is a credit to Michaels fervent anti-Obama stance, which is less about policy than Michaels belief that the president, whom he calls The Beast, is the Antichrist whose rise was foretold in the Bible. Not that he doesnt disapprove of Obamas policies, too. Michael told the Miami New Times that he believes the presidents backing of child support could bring about the extinction of the free black man.
Before he was winning attaboys from prominent members of the GOP, Michael ran with a vicious black-supremacist cult. In the early 90s, Michael and 15 other members of the Yahweh ben Yahweh cult were charged with conspiring in two murders, and even though his own brother testified that Michael stabbed a man in the eye with a sharp stick, he was let off by a Florida jury. In the decades since, hes become a novel figure in South Florida, racking up criminal charges but no convictions and running a radio show that features his rants on Demon-crats.
Before he was winning attaboys from prominent members of the GOP, Michael ran with a vicious black-supremacist cult. In the early 90s, Michael and 15 other members of the Yahweh ben Yahweh cult were charged with conspiring in two murders, and even though his own brother testified that Michael stabbed a man in the eye with a sharp stick, he was let off by a Florida jury. In the decades since, hes become a novel figure in South Florida, racking up criminal charges but no convictions and running a radio show that features his rants on Demon-crats.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/10/the-blacks-for-trump-guy-is-a-former-cult-member.html
leftstreet
(36,078 posts)5. Yeah, but now he has to take the "s" out of his sign
JHB
(37,128 posts)6. Remember who we're talking about, and the party in question
That's a land where "should" is several oceans away from "has to"
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)3. Slow learner? Suspect he'd have right at home all along,
if only he were white.
keithbvadu2
(36,360 posts)4. He hung around with his fellow party members too long?
Gothmog
(143,998 posts)7. trump brushes off losing the support of the man he called 'my African-American
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)8. kick & rec. nt
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)9. K&R, Cheadle: " ... I just found out Trump was a racist !!! " 🙄