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https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/12/politics/trump-my-african-american-cheadle-rally-blake/index.htmlCheadle, 63, a real estate broker and a volunteer at a hospital emergency room, says he is a very different man than the one who went to hear Trump four years ago. He's lost friends and gone into hiding. Trump's shout-out even shook up his love life.
"I was dating a woman and we broke up because of that," he says. "The whole thing was kind of stupid. She was an influential Democrat and she just couldn't handle the pressure of even being seen in public with someone associated with Trump."
Cheadle says he has since lost respect for some Black Republican conservatives. He compares them to ventriloquists' dolls -- puppets employed by powerful white people to mouth political platitudes that hurt Black people.
He also says he was deflated by how the Republican party reacted to the death of Herman Cain, a former Republican presidential candidate. Cain, who was Black, died after contracting coronavirus soon after attending a Trump rally without wearing a mask.
JI7
(89,276 posts)His so called "friends" that came on news shows to talk about him didn't seem to be real friends but just people who knew him in politics .
hlthe2b
(102,379 posts)to deflect questions about his death. Beyond that, they seem to think that finding other black people who will serve their ends while exploiting other black people to be a "dime a dozen."
Glad to see this gentleman has seen the light and is speaking out.
CincyDem
(6,390 posts)...the have black servants. Herman Cain was a tool for the republicans, a can opener if you will that opened up some inroads, albeit few, into the black community.
I dont recall hearing any republican mourning the loss of who was...they were too busy mourning the loss of what he was. They didnt speak of him as a person, only as a can opener.
Classic and subtle dehumanizing racist behavior...seeing others as what they are while ignoring who they are.
hot2na
(358 posts)They are merely props in the lie that the Republicans actually cares about people of color.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Another If you ignore it, it didnt happen Trumpland moment.
hatrack
(59,593 posts)Do you understand now?
SWBTATTReg
(22,171 posts)pretend to have and like black friends.
It's sickening but we're all aware of it (the 'fake' treatment/persona because one is black), and thus, keep a wary eye out on such 'friendly' republicans.
One black friend (I'll call him Steve), who has a catering business, has been approached by such a 'friendly' republican (Mr. X), and asked about doing a catering job? All of us warned Steve to not have the event at Mr. X's house (he's a pig and the house is a mess, have the event at a Hall or other venue) and to charge Mr. X big bucks.
ananda
(28,877 posts)It's never about real friendship or helping
others.
It's just a pretense and a way to show that
they're not relaly racist when they really are.
I had a friend who voted for Trump because
Ben Carson said to and she liked Carson.
That was a very sad moment for me; it ruined
her estimation in my eyes.
SWBTATTReg
(22,171 posts)course, and start on the path to doing good things for all of us. We have a lot of rebuilding and new construction to undertake, but we can do it, instead of the constant tearing down of things that trump and his filthy ilk stood for. I'll be glad finally to ignore trump and his ignorant mouth/BS and let government, as it should, resume its good work started under Obama.
Delarage
(2,186 posts)Apparently. Giving current "Republicans" credit for ending slavery is a little odd, when they've virtually abandoned anything that any decent Republicans have ever stood for...from the 1860's right on up to now.
I'm appalled at the treatment of Native Americans, but I'm not going to sit out the election until the Whig party makes a comeback. I'll vote for the party that is most likely to make their lives better---the Democratic Party.
Stand and Fight
(7,480 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,311 posts)is the term Uncle Tom still used, and still appropriate? I never see it mentioned so I'm thinking it's offensive in some way I don't quite understand, or just replaced by something else.
Stand and Fight
(7,480 posts)KS Toronado
(17,344 posts)Stand and Fight
(7,480 posts)KS Toronado
(17,344 posts)"If I vote for Biden, it'll probably be because I'm voting for Harris," he says.
And just prior to this he stated he left the republiCON party.
Stand and Fight
(7,480 posts)From the article:
"You're asking me to choose between projectile vomit and diarrhea," he says.
What? You're full of yourself. Read more closely next time. So, I maintain what I said. Read the article and stop the childish snark and emojis.
KS Toronado
(17,344 posts)Why is my feeling he's gonna vote Biden/Harris such a big deal to you? I'm voting for them.
Stand and Fight
(7,480 posts)rpannier
(24,339 posts)Get rabies
augyboston
(193 posts)What the hell were you thinking in the first place!
tRump's a racist, his father was a racist, the GOP is full of racists; so again what the hell were you thinking in the first place!
onetexan
(13,062 posts)BS. Polls i've seen show the idiot only has ~10% black voters. If you are black or brown, and are a member of the Republican party you've gotta have your head examined. We have a klansman in the WH for God's sake!
Stand and Fight
(7,480 posts)Hes just pissed he didnt get a better public reception and a place at Old Massas table. Sambo is still out there shucking and jiving and does the whole both sides thinn with Biden. Hes one thick skulled moron. Still not sure if hes voting for Trump or not. He aint seen shit.
niyad
(113,582 posts)post some of the most egregious nonsense, completely divorced from reality. Dems hate blacks, only the gop cares. Ugly things about Biden/Harris. I just shake my head as this is a Facebook group, one does wonder. Now, as I am not on social media, I am only hearing of this from a friend who is on that page.
radius777
(3,635 posts)pretending to be black/brown Trump supporters, ie 'digital blackface' is what it's called, and it's designed to divide the Dem base and suppress votes.
To be sure there are PoC (conservative, as well as some far-left) who are anti-Dem and buy that message. But it is a message that is mainly spread as propaganda to divide.
GoneOffShore
(17,341 posts)Particularly this one -
And for some more history -
niyad
(113,582 posts)me about them. Their comments are so uniform. But she chooses to engage them differently.
usaf-vet
(6,213 posts)Toorich
(391 posts)..... His father, when asked about J.C.'s political future said, " A Black person voting for a Republican is like a chicken
voting for Uncle Sanders."
Stand and Fight
(7,480 posts)Fuck Him and his ilk. Dumb Uncle Tom piece of shit.
radius777
(3,635 posts)This is not about liberal vs conservative. Trump has transformed the GOP into an alt-right ethnofascist party and any PoC who votes for such a party is a self-hating bootlicker.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)He's pretending to be undecided. He's far-right pos. This like when the right-wingers call up C-Span pretending to be a democrat or something else.
GoneOffShore
(17,341 posts)Response to steve2470 (Original post)
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