"My African American......."were the words spoken by Donald J. Trump towards a Black man who supported his 2016 presidential campaign. Now it's 2019 and Gregory Cheadle is fed up.
Cheadle has decided to leave the Republican Party. He cited the lack of diversity and the rhetoric of Trump as reason to his departure from the party.
The 62-year old real estate broker, who supported the Republican Party's platform when it comes to the economy is now pursuing a "pro-white" agenda. An agenda that makes him very uncomfortable to support.
PBS NewsHour details his life and why the change of heart.
Cheadle claims that he uses "black people" as pawns. He also felt that Trump's disgusting attack on Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and the city of Baltimore as a reason to why he felt the Republican Party left him.
"President Trump is a rich guy who is mired in white privilege to the extreme," Cheadle said. He was then an independent before he became a Republican in 2001. "Republicans are too sheepish to call him out on anything and they are afraid of losing their positions and losing any power themselves."
The White House and Trump fiercely deny their rhetoric is racist. They often cite that they hired Ben Carson as a prime example of diversity within the administration.
Cheadle isn't buying this.
"They were sidestepping the people of color issue and saying that, 'No it's not racist,'" he said. "They were saying these people were socialists and communist. That's what they were saying. And I thought this is a classic case of whites not seeing racism because they want to put blinders on and make it about something else."
When Cheadle became a part of the Trump train he was just a man in crowd. Trump pointed him out and then his life changed.
"Look at my African American over that. Look at him. Are you the greatest?"
That brought a thunderous applause and gave Cheadle a spot in history as a campaign prop.
Cheadle also said that Trump's picks of judicial nominees aren't inspiring. He finally sees how Republicans treated Barack Obama during his two terms.
"when you look at his appointments for the bench: White, white, white, white, white, white, white, white," Cheadle said. "That to me is really damning to everybody else because no one else gets a chance because he's thinking that the whites are superior, period."
Trump won nearly 10% of the Black vote. A strong showing for a Republican. Many of these coonservatives are either showing out or fading out of existence.
Now running for Congress in California as an independent, Cheadle is hoping to return back to his principles.
He is saying that he's free from the two parties that are puppets of the filthy rich. He claims he's not owned by the corporations. He said that he's not a "good ol' boy" to either party.
He says that Blacks and Latinos should be cautious about their blind support for political parties.
He said that if they don't support your interests, it's time to leave them.
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