NRO: Elbert Guillroy, the Louisiana state senator who became the state’s first black Republican legislator since Reconstruction after switching parties last month, released a moving video this week explaining why he made his decision. “In recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are best for black people,” he begins.Every damn RINO in Washington, D.C. needs to be forced to watch this!
Guillroy touched on the Republican party’s history, pointing to its role in the abolitionist movement; its first president, Abraham Lincoln; Republican authorship of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fiftheenth Amendments; and Dwight Eisenhower’s championing of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 — and Democratic opposition to such movements.
He also criticized of the failed efforts of the Democratic party — “the party of disappointment” – to help minority communities through various government programs. “At the heart of liberalism is the idea that only a great and powerful government can be the benefactor for social justice for all Americans,” he said. ”But the Left is only concerned with one thing: control — and they disguise this ‘control’ as charity.” The idea that “blacks, or anyone for that matter, need the government to get ahead in life is despicable,” he said.
He concluded by echoing Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, saying that Americans who sign on to Republican ideals will fulfill the civil-right’s leaders dream of being ”free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty, we are free at last.”
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