Posted on 03/04/2016 3:01:18 PM PST by VitacoreVision
There's one main reason why Mississippi’s Charles Evers is endorsing Donald Trump for president.
"I believe in him first of all because he's a businessman," the 93-year-old civil rights activist told The Clarion-Ledger Friday. "I think jobs are badly needed in Mississippi."
"Our catfish is shipped to China and brought back for us to buy. Put a catfish farm here."
"All of us have some racism in us. Even me," he added before stating -- in reference to Trump's inflammatory positions on immigration -- that the United States is not obligated in any capacity to support illegal immigrants.
Evers became Mississippi's first NAACP field secretary after his younger brother -- civil rights leader Medgar Evers — was assassinated in front of the family's Jackson, MS home in 1963.
He was the first black man to be elected mayor of a Mississippi town since Reconstruction (Fayette, 1969) and gained national notoriety when he switched to the Republican party and endorsed Ronald Reagan in 1980.
This Is Trump Country
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/04/us/politics/donald-trump-voters.html?_r=1
So he’s been a Republican for forty years and people are surprised that he endorsed Trump?
This is from the older school of civil rights activist, not our modern perverted school.
He sounds pretty wise.
Uncle Tom in 3...2..1
FFS. the fact that it's cheaper to send our food to China for processing and then to have it sent back here is INSANE !
As an older racial civil rights activist, he also knows that black and white are nothing to Trump as compared to green. Green doesn’t care what color your skin is, it just encourages you to get rich.
That is America.
The dream is dead. But Trump can bring it back.
Good for him!
But, but, but, KKK!
“So he’s been a Republican for forty years and people are surprised that he endorsed Trump?”
Only the media, the GOPe and the Cruz camp are.
You know, because Trump is the grand Kroger of the Klu Klux Klams....or something.
I’m loving this— Trump is gonna get a whole lotta black folks voting for him. This is Yuuuuuuge!
Back in the 80s there were catfish farms all over the south. What happened to them? Did old man Bush cut a deal with China and made it too expensive to raise catfish here?
“So he’s been a Republican for forty years and people are surprised that he endorsed Trump?”
On this site yes - even if the Cruz people cannot figure out that Cruz is now only a USEFUL IDIOT in support of a brokered convention.
Well, IMHO, and despite being a Cruz supporter, the reality is that this is more evidence of the Trump Tsunami that is coming.
We should use these words whenever we see evidence of it.
“Trump Tsunami Coming”
LOL! You saw it here first.
IIRC, the catfish farms started shutting down during the Billy Jeff administration.
Jobs.
I wondered did old man Bush make it too hard on them? I know it takes changes a while to be effective.
Yes, the Cruzbots are going to follow Romney’s recommendation and vote for Cruz so they can have a brokered convention and get Romney/Bush, or Ryan/Graham or some other equally impressive ticket, determined by our betters, that we all are just going to love!
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