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Viral Conservative YouTube Star Renounces Conservatism
TPM ^ | 11/30/15 | Caitlin Cruz

Posted on 12/01/2015 12:21:08 PM PST by T-Bird45

CJ Pearson, the 13-year-old viral YouTube star made famous for his rants against President Barack Obama, has renounced conservatism, according to a Friday interview with CNN.

Pearson told the network in an email that the GOP's stance on racial and gender disparity compelled him to change.

"I was tired of being a champion of a party that turned a blind eye to racial discrimination," Pearson told CNN. "Tired of being a champion of any cause that denies equal rights to every American. Tired of being a champion of a party that doesn't care about the issues important to young people."

Pearson's made headlines in September after he made a video from his Georgia home questioning why Obama had invited that "Muslim kid" to the White House. He was referring to Ahmed Mohammed, the Dallas-area student who brought a homemade clock to his high school.

Pearson also said he is no longer working with the presidential campaign of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). He previously was the chairman for Teens for Ted.

The video of 17-year-old Lacquan McDonald being shot 16 times by a Chicago police officer changed Pearson's mind. He called the shooting "an issue where conservatives and liberals should come together" in a video published last week.

Pearson said his views will not be dictated by one party.

"I don't want to be the conservative wonder kid that people follow because I make them feel good and like young people are part of their movement. I want to be followed because I'm the voice of a generation that doesn't have a voice at the table," he told CNN.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cjpearson; cruz; election2016; fakeconservative; falseflag; movement; tedcruz; teenager; texas; young
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To: T-Bird45

:: The video of 17-year-old Lacquan McDonald being shot 16 times by a Chicago police officer changed Pearson’s mind ::

Yes! And it was Ted Cruz that told that officer to empty his weapon into that child.

Why, Rahm Emmanuel had absolutely nothing to do with it because, well, he’s just the mayor (and CEO of the Police Force)...totally disengaged from this...he found out about it from the newspaper...

The energy of youth is wasted on the young.


21 posted on 12/01/2015 12:35:20 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: T-Bird45

Hw’s a child. Why we jump on these idiotic bandwagons is utterly beyond me.

He’s a ki. He is not mature. I don’t care WHAT he says about anything. We need to stop chasing the next shiny object.


22 posted on 12/01/2015 12:35:23 PM PST by RIghtwardHo
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To: T-Bird45

I get him now. He just wants attention for saying the unexpected. Stardom for the contrarian. It works. He needs to grow up and realize wisdom increases with age.


23 posted on 12/01/2015 12:37:16 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: ClearCase_guy

It is the “I want to shock you” disease that runs rampant in young people. By the time he outgrows it will he still have an audience?


24 posted on 12/01/2015 12:38:59 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: RIghtwardHo
The video of 17-year-old Lacquan McDonald being shot 16 times by a Chicago police officer changed Pearson's mind. He called the shooting "an issue where conservatives and liberals should come together" in a video published last week.

Uh, did anyone bother to explain to him the McDonald shooting and the cover up took place in one of the most Democrat dominated cities in America?

Something doesn't compute here with this kid. The whole thing has parallels with clock boy.

25 posted on 12/01/2015 12:40:47 PM PST by Robwin
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To: T-Bird45
The video of 17-year-old Lacquan McDonald being shot 16 times by a Chicago police officer changed Pearson's mind.

I'm sure this kid is now camped outside of Mayor Rahm Emmanuel's door demanding his resignation, right? The same Democrat who colluded to withhold the video until well after his re-election.

There is simply no ability to process information rationally with Liberals. It is ALL feelings and emotions for them.

Do we know when this kid will be coming out?

26 posted on 12/01/2015 12:41:27 PM PST by Obadiah (Jeb! Because America needs more cowbell.)
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To: RIghtwardHo

You are right. Of course it is easy to see now. I enjoyed his posts mostly because I get so tired of the false accusations by the Democrats. Oh well. It was either all too much for him or he has discovered that the way to gain stardom is to be contrary. I lean to the latter.


27 posted on 12/01/2015 12:41:37 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

My initial thought.


28 posted on 12/01/2015 12:42:43 PM PST by Obadiah (Jeb! Because America needs more cowbell.)
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To: T-Bird45
"Boy! ... Git your little Black ass back on the Democrat Plantation!"


29 posted on 12/01/2015 12:44:50 PM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: circlecity

Must not have been a real conservative.


30 posted on 12/01/2015 12:45:24 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: SomeCallMeTim

I bet he got turned off by the corrupt and inept GOPe. The GOPe does more to turn off people to conservatism than anything else.


31 posted on 12/01/2015 12:49:50 PM PST by Menthops (If you are reading this..... the GOPe hates you!)
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To: T-Bird45

He’s 13, and should never have been given such a big microphone amongst us...especially given the history of the detestable Jonathan Krohn. He should be doing sleepovers and playing Fallout 4, not trolling the highest-trafficked conservative sites.


32 posted on 12/01/2015 12:52:16 PM PST by montag813
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To: T-Bird45

Wasn’t Rahm Emanuel (D) the one who benefited most from NOT releasing the tape?


33 posted on 12/01/2015 12:53:12 PM PST by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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To: Louis Foxwell

I suspect the same... I bet he got an earful (or worse) from many of the usual suspects, for wandering off the plantation


34 posted on 12/01/2015 12:54:14 PM PST by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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To: Robwin

You mean the Moslum Bomb-Maker!


35 posted on 12/01/2015 1:03:26 PM PST by Col Bull-Sigh
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To: SomeCallMeTim

Is this one of those, “don’t you believe in ‘hands up don’t shoot’”, questions?


36 posted on 12/01/2015 1:08:58 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
CJ Pearson, the 13-year-old viral YouTube star ... "I was tired of being a champion of a party that turned a blind eye to racial discrimination... Tired of being a champion of any cause that denies equal rights to every American. Tired of being a champion of a party that doesn't care about the issues important to young people." Pearson's made headlines in September after he made a video from his Georgia home questioning why Obama had invited that "Muslim kid" to the White House... Pearson also said he is no longer working with the presidential campaign of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). He previously was the chairman for Teens for Ted. The video of 17-year-old Lacquan McDonald being shot 16 times by a Chicago police officer changed Pearson's mind.
So, a Demwit cop in Chicago kills a thug, and that's a Republican problem? Thanks for clearing that one up. We'll be waiiting to welcome you back when your hormone-addled brain changes back to the right direction.


37 posted on 12/01/2015 1:13:40 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: T-Bird45

Oh darn! Our ideology has been abandoned by a flash-in-the-pan nobody whose testes haven’t descended. Whatever shall become of us???


38 posted on 12/01/2015 1:16:02 PM PST by IronJack
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To: T-Bird45

I’m as worked up about this as I would be had I ever heard that he was a ‘champion’ in the first place.


39 posted on 12/01/2015 1:17:22 PM PST by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Mr. K

“Nice family you got there CJ. Be a shame if something happened to them”


40 posted on 12/01/2015 1:17:29 PM PST by digger48
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