But Why Won’t African-Americans Vote Republican? « The Washington Independent
Jul 31, 20209.5K Shares638.7K Views
My friend J.P. Freire digs upa 2003 speechby Katon Dawson, the Republican National Committee chairman candidate who has apologized for once belonging to a whites-only country club, in which Dawson traces his Republicanism back to…
…wait for it…
… racial integration.
“„I, in the 1960s was a product of school segregation, where we took our schools and completely disbanded them, and made racial equality. Fifty-Fifty. And the kids had no choices. They closed Booker T. Washington, Blease, down here. A pretty good school. Closed it and sent the students to A. C. Flora, across town…
“„The end of that story was, I was standing in a bathroom in public school… This scar over here [pointing to his forehead] was from a baseball bat. I will tell you it was a pretty harsh environment. Government reached into my life and grabbed me and shook me at the age of fifteen. I remember how blatant it was that government just thought that they knew better, that government just thought they knew better what to do in my school. And I can’t say it was so much racial.
To be fair to Dawson, he has been endorsed by two of the three black members of the RNC, and getting brained by a baseball bat is no fun.
Hajra Shannon
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