More Blacks than ever in my neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago are done with Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party. For years, they’ve been told how to vote like mindless sheep and for years they’ve been told to keep waiting for their political favors like mindless sheep. Year after year, nothing changes. We’re still on the bottom of America. But now they’re beginning to ask questions.
One question I get is, “Hey, Pastor Corey, why are you a Republican?”
I bring them into my church office and give them my usual spiel about embracing the American values of hard work, responsibility, accountability, and living a purpose-driven life. I then ask them what the Democrats have done for them other than empty promises. What has improved in their lives since their childhood? Do they organize their lives around government entitlements? Has the government asked for any kind of personal or professional uplift in exchange for these entitlements? Why haven’t the Democrats ever presented true and proven policies of uplift? Is it to keep the black man trapped in the permanent underclass to be exploited for political gains as a symbol of systemic racism?
How do they feel when former President Obama demands that they be racially loyal and vote for Harris because she’s black? How does blackness fix the problems in our neighborhood? It wasn’t black people but people all over America that contributed to the building of our community center.
In these conversations I repeat one thing over and over: don’t judge a man by his skin but by his actions. And I tell them that it was my action, my individual initiative, and my faith that brought positive change to this neighborhood — not the all-powerful government. I had no help in the beginning, but I had faith in God and in myself and in my fellow man. More and more of these Blacks are beginning to buy into the idea that they are their very own best agent of uplift in life and that is why many of them are leaving the chains of the Democratic Party.
Obey
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