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Why I Couldn't Stay Silent
00:02:09
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| What caused you to say I can't stay silent any longer? | |
| You were brought up in a Christian home? | |
| I was brought up in a Christian home. | |
| And for me, my mom always taught me to and told me to vote my values. | |
| She said, look at what these candidates, don't look at what they're just saying, but look at how they're voting. | |
| And the issue on life is really, to me, the biggest issue. | |
| I mean, it's an issue that, as a Christian, how could we ever support a candidate that supports taking the life of an unborn baby? | |
| Exactly. | |
| It's just murder. | |
| And it's something that there was no way that I could ever. | |
| So I was a minority, so to speak, within the minority, right? | |
| There's Hispanics are minorities, blacks are minorities. | |
| Well, I'm a mixture of both. | |
| And so I dealt with that growing up. | |
| I lived in a predominantly white town, right in California. | |
| I was raised there, born there, raised there. | |
| My grandfather was the first African-American chaplain for that county in the 60s. | |
| But there were the black folks that were like, well, you're not dark enough, or you don't fit in because I had mostly white friends, not because I chose it that way, but just because that's all that's in my class. | |
| I just, I made friends with people that, you know, I messed with and that liked me and that we, you know, could do things together. | |
| So, but for me, the issue of abortion was something that I could never agree with. | |
| And so when I saw the third presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and I saw Hillary continue to support her abortion stance and Donald Trump just say, absolutely not, we need to support life, I just couldn't stay silent anymore. | |
| I went on my Facebook page. | |
| I only had a couple thousand friends. | |
| I didn't have a Facebook following. | |
| I just poured my heart out for 13, 14 minutes. | |
| As an American, as a father, as a husband, as a black man in America, this is why I feel like we have to support Donald Trump. | |
| And the messages just began to flood in on my inbox on Facebook from women, from men, from blacks, Asians, Hispanics that said, my whole life I've been a Democrat. | |
| I've always voted Democrat. | |
| My family are all Democrats. | |
| But after hearing your message, there's no way I can support Hillary. | |