Posted on 07/07/2018 1:09:54 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
The mainstream media and the Democratic Party have gleefully counted on support from the black community for years.
Their messaging has been clear: At best, Republicans don’t care about black people, and at worst, are made up largely of racists. Unless you want to betray your race, you must vote Democrat.
So, you can imagine Democrats’ dismay at the growing movement of black Americans who are — as some have put it — leaving the Democratic plantation after waking up to the fact that the Democratic Party is bad news for African-Americans.
That brings us to Antonia Okafor. She’s a young African-American woman who voted for Barack Obama in both 2008 and 2012.
Fast forward to 2018: She’s now a gun-toting, Donald Trump-supporting conservative.
So what changed? According to her, she just acquired some good old fashioned common sense.
“I’m Antonia Okafor and I am a former two-time Obama voter and Democrat,” she said. “How does that happen? Basically common sense.”
“Realizing that the values that I grew up with, that my family instilled in me — working hard, personal responsibility, education being one of the greatest equalizers and then a gun also being one of the greatest equalizers as well,” Okafor continued. “Realizing that those things are conservative and not realizing I really was identifying as a Democrat just because I felt, as a woman, or as a black person, that I had to be.”
Okafor then explained some realizations that changed the game for her.
“That ah-ha moment for me was not too long ago. After the Obama travesty that were the 8 years, 2008 to 2016, I realized that the economy, for one, still sucks. Not like what NPR told me for all this time that we’re in a good state when it comes to the economy. And then also that for the first time in history my generation was going to do worse than my parents’ generation, the generation that came to America to make sure that their kids had a different, better life.”
“That wasn’t going to happen because of the policies that came along with this charismatic man that we so naively put into office. That I so naively put into office,” she continued.
After 8 years of Obama, Okafor was ready for a different direction.
“In 2016, I voted for Trump because he’s a Republican and he, I believe, is always going to be first and foremost someone who advocates for the Second Amendment and also for our life,” she said.
“That’s what people should be looking at. They shouldn’t just be looking at this charismatic face. They should be looking at the fact that it’s not the person in office who’s going to really directly do something to change your individual life. It’s the policies that they put forth that are really going to affect you.”
She’s absolutely right. Democrat politicians like Barack Obama are able to put on a good face for the black community, but at the end of the day, his policies did nothing to help them.
Our hats are off to this young woman for defying those who told her she had to think a certain way, and deciding to think for herself.
We’re sure she won’t regret it.
This is why I hate Racism...this is a woman that had an epiphany of common sense exploding in her mind and I have more in common with her then with millions of white Left wing morons in this country...
And this is the reason that the dems have become so shrill in their support of illegal aliens, and support for open borders, while shouting down the concept of voter ID, so only legitimate citizens can vote.
They know they're losing the Black vote and need to replace them with new voters they can control. Some Blacks are beginning to realize they've been used as cannon fodder since the "Great Society," where LBJ is reported to have said they'd have the "ni***r vote for the next 200 years." It hasn't quite been 200 years, but they've been been reliable. Maybe there's some hope that Blacks who aren't completely dependent on the government, or those who are and realize the poison that it's become, are waking up.
Mark
A former co-worker was from Nigeria, and he absolutely loves the USA. He was here for about 10 years, and our entire department attended his naturalization ceremony.
He jokingly said he needed to go to HR to change his “settings” from African-American” to just “American.” He was extremely conservative politically and financially.
Mark
In other words they are showing their true colors.
I think it’s amazing how President Trump has managed to out all these deceivers. They can never again claim to be conservative; only Bush league (globalist) dems.
I had to google that one.
Turns out the source was Air Force One steward Robert MacMillan, who reported that LBJ uttered this comment to two governors during a conversation on the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Snopes, of course, denies the authenticity of the quote. But the link above offers a convincing rebuttal.
Wish I had a data plan
That would allow me to watch it,
I’m going with the Kimber in
My minds eye!
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