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Don’t assume all Southern black women are anti-Trump
AL.com ^ | 11-24-2019 | Rachel Blackmon Bryars

Posted on 11/24/2019 3:32:37 PM PST by boycott

Most people assume that all Southern black women are liberal Democrats who can’t stand President Donald Trump.

It’s a common misperception, according to Huntsville-based executive chef Merle Phillip, who says she’s somewhat of a political “unicorn” – a conservative African-American woman who “got on the Trump train” early on.

That train is taking Phillip to Washington, D.C., this week where she’ll contribute her design and culinary skills as part of an elite volunteer team who were chosen, based on work samples, to prepare the White House for elaborate Christmas festivities including dinners, parties, and tours.

Phillip said in a recent Belle Curve podcast interview that she understands why people make snap judgments about another person’s political beliefs based on their race, but that she believes “you should never judge a book by its cover because you just don’t know.”

Being part of the decades-old tradition of decorating the White House is an opportunity Phillip said she’d have been thrilled to accept no matter who occupies the White House, though she agrees more with Trump than with former President Barack Obama.

Phillip, a mother-of-three grown children, said she was raised by “pretty Democratic parents” in New Jersey and used to be “a lot more liberal.” Her political views evolved as she matured and watched the country change.

She doesn’t believe she’s alone in that shift.

“I think the tide is changing,” she said. “There are a lot more African-Americans … who are walking away from the old Democratic guard, which is surprising but not surprising. …I often say to people, it’s safe to come out of the closet. You can embrace who you are.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: blacks; blackvoicesfortrump; blackvote; danielcameron; davidharrisjr; kentucky; republican; trump; women
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To: LS

I’m just in shock the Newhouses allowed this in print.


23 posted on 11/24/2019 5:28:57 PM PST by Black Agnes
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To: Modern Profanity
Blexit is worse than a fantasy. It’s a delusion which is harming the GOP.

Regular GOP pandering to the black community is, indeed, a waste of time, primarily because the GOPers in the last couple of decades who attempted this were transparently country-club elitists who didn't have the slightest idea how to relate to any non-white Americans, or even to middle and lower-class white Americans. They were frauds and everyone saw that.

The support for Trump, however, seems to be an organically-grown phenomenon. I don't see Trump pandering to black Americans. I only see him telling them straight up, "This is what I'm doing for everybody." Those black Americans who have openly supported him have appeared to have done so of their own initiative, rather than having been coaxed into it. Examples of this are Diamond and Silk, and freaking KANYE WEST, who, God bless him, has gone off on some kind of spiritual rocket ride that I can't even begin to comprehend, but who has gone from songs about money and bitches to a top-selling album of old timey return to Jesus, and wears a MAGA hat wherever he goes.

There simply is no precedent by which to measure what is happening right in front of our eyes, both for good and for bad, and so if, next election, we saw even a 10-20% shift of black voting to Trump (NOTE - not GOP, but Trump, specifically), I would not be surprised, and it would result in a landslide of Reagan proportions.

In other words, do not let past patterns prejudice your current expectations. The times, they are a-changin'.
25 posted on 11/24/2019 6:03:45 PM PST by fr_freak
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To: Modern Profanity

Modern Profanity
Since Nov 17, 2019

*sniff*sniff*

You haz a smell, n00b.


26 posted on 11/24/2019 6:11:58 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: Modern Profanity

Calm down, dude. As I said, from what I have seen, there does appear to be a genuine movement among black Americans toward, at least, having some doubts about Democrats. Now, as far as GOP goes, as I said, the movement tends to be toward Trump specifically, not the GOP in general, and may only affect his re-election in the short term, not all the elections. We’ll see. In the long term, anything is possible.


29 posted on 11/24/2019 6:42:53 PM PST by fr_freak
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To: boycott

I follow many black female Trump supporters on Twitter. There is also a movement started by a gay hairdresser from NY called “Walk Away” in which he and others are working to convince blacks and other Democrats to “walk away” from the Democrat party. Go to YouTube and search “Walk Away” - many (former) Democrats telling their stories about what they are walking away from the Democrat party.


30 posted on 11/24/2019 6:59:10 PM PST by JaguarXKE (Liberalism is a cancer on our nation.)
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To: boycott

It not a trend at all. When you see a black person there is 90% chance that they are a Democrat. Same with LEGAL immigrants that get citizenship. They too vote for Democrats 90-10.


31 posted on 11/24/2019 7:06:48 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Modern Profanity

We haven’t had a Republican President actually and aggressively target the Black vote in eons. No one here is seriously suggesting we’re going to emancipate half their voters from the Stalinist Slave Plantation. But the point is to try to crack it by any means. Not doing or not trying is aiding and abetting what’s been done to the Black community by the Demonrat party.

Simply put, it is NOT a waste of time.


33 posted on 11/24/2019 7:13:22 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
What? Pandering to skin tone and race hustling is for the left not the right. Screw that.

End Affirmative Action now!!!

34 posted on 11/24/2019 7:16:45 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Salman
Of course we will not see a big wave of Trump support from blacks...

Black Support for President Trump Hits 34%

35 posted on 11/24/2019 7:25:50 PM PST by JaguarXKE (Liberalism is a cancer on our nation.)
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To: JaguarXKE

Wow. Mighty impressive.


36 posted on 11/24/2019 7:28:32 PM PST by Salman (The Democrat agenda in one word -- revenge.)
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To: boycott

They aren’t anti-trump, they are anti-Republican. Republicans are black people kryptonite.


37 posted on 11/24/2019 7:31:30 PM PST by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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To: central_va

Asking for their vote is not pandering. No one here is remotely suggesting pursuing a leftist agenda for Blacks with the Republicans. They’ve already been severely damaged by leftism. Doing nothing is not a viable alternative.


38 posted on 11/24/2019 7:32:03 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Pandering to human base tribal instincts is not what the Republicans should do.


39 posted on 11/24/2019 7:36:18 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Bommer

If Trump was a democrat, they would love him. Truthfully, I don’t believe Trump identifies that much with either party. He’s his own man.


40 posted on 11/24/2019 7:41:21 PM PST by boycott
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