He backs Trump



Another free thinker has broken loose.

Quote:HIGH POINT, N.C. (AP) — Clarence Henderson was hailed as a hero nearly 60 years ago when as a young black man he participated in a sit-in at a segregated North Carolina lunch counter.

In 2016, he is again taking a risky stand; he is supporting Donald Trump.

And he isn’t shy about it. Last month he gave the invocation at a Trump rally here, smiling as he shook the Republican candidate’s hand.

“Donald Trump is certainly not a politician, and politicians are a dime a dozen, but leaders are priceless,” Henderson said in an interview.

Trump is deeply unpopular in the black community. He has called on black voters to vote for him because “what the hell do you have to lose?” His support among blacks is less than the margin of error in some polls.

Henderson, 74, has been criticized for his stance, with many taking to Twitter to accuse him of abandoning the principles he fought so hard for more than half a century ago.

Henderson shrugged off the criticism, saying he isn’t paying any attention to it.

And he has gotten some support from one of his fellow activists. Jabreel Khazan was one of the first four protesters to sit down at the Woolworth’s lunch counter. And though he supports Hillary Clinton, he said he had no problem with Henderson’s choice.

“God bless him and all of those who have a second opinion,” said Khazan, whose name was Ezell Blair at the time of the protest. “We should not be a one-minded people.”[…]

For a civil rights hero, he later ended up on a more unconventional political path that he credits to his father, a lifelong Republican.

“My dad, with a third-grade education, said to me, ‘Well, son, you don’t know what the Democratic party has done as far as blacks are concerned,'” Henderson said.

He discovered the Democrats had created and enforced Jim Crow and the Republican Party was behind the constitutional amendments that abolished slavery, granted equal protection to freed slaves and gave blacks the right to vote.

He cast his first vote for a Republican presidential candidate for George W. Bush. Henderson, who ran a financial services business for more than 25 years before retiring a decade ago, said he respected Bush’s business background.

He continued voting for Republicans, even when Barack Obama stood poised to become the first black president.

“I never thought I would see a black person become the president of the United States,” Henderson said. “His ideologies were different from mine. After looking at his past history, I didn’t see him as a viable candidate.”

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God Bless him for his lifelong will to think freely, stand for his beliefs even if it meant going against norms and acting with courage in the face of pervasive criticism.

For those liberals who don't know or believe the difference between the two parties' histories with regard to blacks:

"He discovered the Democrats had created and enforced Jim Crow and the Republican Party was behind the constitutional amendments that abolished slavery, granted equal protection to freed slaves and gave blacks the right to vote."

Regardless of demographic, freethinkers are not welcomed by the left.

He is a democrat...like me as a matter of fact....however, the party has been coopted by ******* lunatics.

He probably took too many bricks to the head during the 60's. My daddy use to rough these guys up back in the day. Looks like he knocked some sense into them.