Posted on 01/28/2019 3:09:28 AM PST by Tired of Taxes
Caleb Hanna was a child when Barack Obama won the White House and, like many African Americans, he recalled his excitement at seeing “someone who looks like me become president.”
But Mr. Hanna, now 19, soured on Mr. Obama’s policies. This month, he was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates as a Republican, becoming one of the party’s youngest black legislators in the country.
Mr. Hanna grew up not only in a state that is overwhelmingly white, but in a white family. He was adopted as a child, and his father, mother, four sisters and brother, who are all white, joined him at his swearing-in ceremony last month. Racial differences have hardly registered in his short life, Mr. Hanna said.
During Mr. Obama’s first term in Washington, his father lost his job as a coal miner, and Mr. Hanna blamed the Obama administration’s environmental policies. “Once I learned more about his politics and how they were affecting our community, my attitude changed,” he said. “By 2012, I was definitely a Mitt Romney fan.”
By then, he had also resolved to run for delegate, to be a more forceful advocate for the state’s 44th district. He sums up his platform as “God, guns and babies.”
At Richwood High School — where almost all the students were white — he had served as class president for three years and as president of the student body in his final year.
Flooding severely damaged the school after his sophomore year, giving him his first taste of political action as the community debated how to rebuild. As a senior, Mr. Hanna began his campaign to unseat an incumbent Democrat, Dana Lynch, in the statehouse.
After school and on weekends, he knocked on hundreds of doors in an attempt to reach every registered Republican
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Well done, young man.
He's a worker. A lot of Republicans should learn by that example... get out and knock, meet people face to face.
He’s from Richwood. He’s country with a good foundation.
I wonder how his membership in the black caucus is doing?
I kept thinkng of the laid off coal miners whenever I saaw the countless offers of help for the gov workers during the recent partial shutdown. Online on various sites I would see offers of help. The coal miners who Obama & Hillary etc wanted to suffer? They were ignored.
It is the state legislature.
Oh thanks...
Ahh. So, he is a racist white supremacist.
This is good to know.
I guess in some ways this is fine.
But what “wisdom” does he bring to the state legislature.
A body like all modern legislatures desperately in need of it. He doesn’t have the education (Doesn’t have to be “formal”!) and more importantly he doesn’t have the “life experiences” yet to equate to wisdom. Maybe he has abundant common sense again something in short supply in modern legislatures. Still my preferences is start with “native common sense”, “get educated (however!)”, get a job (or start a business!) experience “life” let that “mix” turn into “wisdom” that you can bring to politics & the “give back” to your community & country. Otherwise its likely he will turn into another political careerist (since he’s GOP McConnell comes to mind!). Haven’t we had enough of those? Look at the mess!
Mature enough not to be fooled by good hair and “someone who looks like me”/skin color. Here’s to him going far and making a difference.
“Mr. Hanna grew up not only in a state that is overwhelmingly white, but in a white family. He was adopted as a child, and his father, mother, four sisters and brother, who are all white, joined him at his swearing-in ceremony last month. “
Mr. Hanna’s “white privilege” will not be tolerated by the usual continually aggrieved crowd.
I highly doubt the West Virginia House has a black caucus.
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