{"id":2297060,"date":"2024-07-16T23:35:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T03:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/let-down-for-decades-by-dems-black-americans-mulling-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T23:37:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T03:37:25","slug":"black-americans-disappointed-by-democrats-for-decades-considering-trump-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-americans-disappointed-by-democrats-for-decades-considering-trump-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Americans, disappointed by Democrats for decades, considering Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblack-americans-disappointed-by-democrats-for-decades-considering-trump-15%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2297060&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Patricia Easley, also known \u200cas &#8220;P Rae,&#8221; is a conservative activist and\u200d founder of \u200bChicagoRed, a movement dedicated to swinging Chicago towards a more conservative ideology. Easley\u2064 has \u2062gained attention for her confrontations with leftist politicians and her efforts to challenge the entrenched Democratic \u2062politics in \u200dChicago, especially among black voters. \u2062Despite facing challenges in a city\u2064 dominated by the Democratic Party machine, Easley remains optimistic that there is a growing discontent among voters, \u200bparticularly \u200cblack voters, \u200btowards the current political leadership. Her efforts align with a broader trend of black voters reevaluating their support for the Democratic Party, as\u200c seen in recent polls \u200cshowing \u2063a decline in\u200d support \u2062for President Joe Biden among this demographic. Easley&#8217;s \u2062activism reflects a larger shift in political dynamics, as more black conservatives like herself speak \u2064out against what they \u2064see as Democratic failures.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MILWAUKEE &mdash; Patricia Easley (aka &ldquo;P Rae&rdquo;) seems like a one-woman army, an unstoppable force &mdash; like the former president and GOP presidential candidate she adores. But this human dynamo is going up against the immovable object of entrenched Democrat politics in the lives of what she sees as ideologically enslaved black Chicagoans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Decked out in an American flag shirt &mdash; proudly bearing her home state and accented with cartoon Donald Trumps &mdash; and a red &ldquo;Make America Great Again&rdquo; sun hat to shield herself from the late-afternoon Milwaukee sun, Easley was taking it to the streets Monday just outside the Republican National Convention&rsquo;s secured campus. Scrapping with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-americans-disappointed-by-democrats-for-decades-considering-trump-2\/\" title=\"Black Americans, disappointed by Democrats for decades, considering Trump\">protesting leftists screaming obscenities<\/a> about Trump to no one in particular, this West Chicago resident seems to be one happy warrior for the conservative cause.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<div>\n<p>Photo by M.D. Kittle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Easley is the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagored.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ChicagoRed<\/a>, a &ldquo;movement&rdquo; of &ldquo;Independent and Conservative voters&rdquo; dedicated to the tall order of swinging Chicago right. Easley doesn&rsquo;t see herself as the black Don Quixote, though. She says more than 100 people have joined the fledgling group since launching in March, and she says Chicago hasn&rsquo;t seen nothing yet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our goal is to get people away from the mentality of liberal failure that is happening in our city,&rdquo; P Rae told me. &ldquo;Our grandparents ran from the south to this city, and they met the same people in the north who continue to terrorize them and their children.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8216;DISRESPECTFUL&#8217;: P Rae Easley went viral after she gave Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson a piece of her mind at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/portland-mayor-laughs-at-womens-safety-concerns-over-rising-homelessness-problem\/\" title=\"Portland Mayor Laughs at Women&#039;s Safety Concerns Over Rising Homelessness Problem\">recent city council meeting<\/a>. Hear her remarks and more of this interview: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9SkxMj7Xn0\">https:\/\/t.co\/9SkxMj7Xn0<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/woEkhfaauF\">pic.twitter.com\/woEkhfaauF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1781457789379817571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>The Machine<\/h2>\n<p>Easley, a conservative activist and radio personality, earned huge props from former President Donald Trump earlier this year after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6351240111112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">calling out<\/a> leftist Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson for laying out the taxpayer-funded welcome mat for a flood of illegal immigrants. The illegal alien crisis, the direct result of President Joe Biden&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-americans-disappointed-by-democrats-for-decades-considering-trump-3\/\" title=\"Black Americans, disappointed by Democrats for decades, considering Trump\">open-door border policy<\/a>, is one of the leading issues on the minds of voters in the upcoming presidential rematch race. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;&lsquo;P RAE&rsquo; EASLEY &mdash; I watched your great interview tonight with Pete Hegseth. You are a real leader, far ahead of the times. This is happening all over America. We will put Chicago into the winning mix! Will be calling you,&rdquo; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TrumpDailyPosts\/status\/1781504689491828944\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> on his Truth Social account.<\/p>\n<p>But Chicago is a leftist fortress where the Republican Party seems like the Whigs in 1860. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are to Chicago what Taylor Swift fans are to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-americans-disappointed-by-democrats-for-decades-considering-trump\/\" title=\"Black Americans, disappointed by Democrats for decades, considering Trump\">suburban middle school cheerleading summer camp<\/a>: They&rsquo;re everywhere. (More so among black voters, who voted for Gov. J.B. Pritzker, arguably one of the whitest, most race-pandering, and morbidly obese politicians in America, at a <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagocrusader.com\/over-90-percent-of-voters-in-black-wards-supported-pritzker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">90 percent-plus<\/a> clip in the 2022 election.) <\/p>\n<p>Chicago is infamous for its Democratic Party machine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Tipping Point?<\/h2>\n<p>The nation&rsquo;s third-most populous city (for now, anyway) is also infamous for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.illinoispolicy.org\/report-chicago-violent-crime-spikes-11-arrests-in-just-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">crime<\/a>, poverty, and overall dysfunction &mdash; generational failures wrought by decades of entrenched Democrat leadership, conservatives like Easley argue. In October, The Center Square <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/illinois\/article_cc9cc410-6dcd-11ee-a61a-c74105f97e0c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> that &ldquo;Chicago-area residents are now three times more likely to become a homicide victim than they are to be struck by lightning.&rdquo; According to the report, black Chicagoans represented more than three-quarters of the city&rsquo;s homicide victims in the latest figures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yet, black voters continue to vote straight Democrat tickets.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Easley believes things have hit a tipping point &mdash; in her city and among black voters nationwide. There definitely is growing discontent, an all-too-common feeling in the buyer&rsquo;s remorse Biden world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An NBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/wavering-black-voters-biden-flawed-trump-unacceptable-deciders-rcna140786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poll<\/a> in January found 75 percent of black voters saying they would vote for President Joe Biden in the election. That&rsquo;s down from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2021\/06\/30\/behind-bidens-2020-victory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">92 percent<\/a> of black voters who once supported the old Democrat in 2020. That&rsquo;s significant, particularly in swing states like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/opinion\/columnists\/james-causey\/2024\/07\/16\/trump-campaign-courting-black-voters-in-swing-states-like-wisconsin\/74327982007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wisconsin<\/a> expected to decide November&rsquo;s winner. The most recent NBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/kamala-harris-biden-stronger-weaker-trump-nbc-news-poll-rcna161520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poll<\/a> &mdash; post-debate debacle &mdash; shows Biden&rsquo;s support among black voters slipping to 69 percent. Vice President Kamala Harris, who is black and Asian, fares a bit better (78% support) when pollsters talk about her replacing Biden &mdash; who has pushed aside calls to step aside.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Apocaloptimist&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Leechia Wilder, an alternate convention delegate from Sikeston, Missouri, is as direct as blunt force trauma. She accused the Democratic Party of &ldquo;selling lies and death, the sexualization of children destroying young lives.&rdquo; But she told me that she&rsquo;s one of the few openly black conservatives in the small city just north of the &ldquo;Missouri Bootheel.&rdquo; She says she&rsquo;s hopeful that more black Missourians step up and vote against what she calls the &ldquo;Demoncrats.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newphilosopher.com\/articles\/apocaloptimism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">apocaloptimist<\/a>. I know things are going to get terribly bad but I&rsquo;ve got hope for the future,&rdquo; she told me Monday evening during the convention&rsquo;s opening events.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<div>\n<p>Photo by M.D Kittle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For Easley, it&rsquo;s much more of a voter revolution. She said black Americans are growing increasingly tired of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-americans-let-down-by-democrats-for-decades-considering-trump\/\" title=\"Black Americans, let down by Democrats for decades, considering Trump\">white-led progressive &#038;ldquo<\/a>;soft bigotry of low expectations.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Democrat Party likes to treat black people like we&rsquo;re a pitiful charity. That&rsquo;s because they are the party of slave owners. They&rsquo;re the party of the Confederacy. They&rsquo;re the party of the KKK,&rdquo; the conservative activist said. &ldquo;Everything they&rsquo;ve ever done has been via violence to stifle black progress in this country. Now they&rsquo;re playing psyop saying, &lsquo;We&rsquo;re just doing this to help you. You need me,&rsquo; We&rsquo;re telling them, &lsquo;We don&rsquo;t need you. Leave us alone. Every time you people show up things get worse.&rsquo;&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Trump is knocking on the door. As he asked black Americans in his first presidential run in 2016, &ldquo;What do you have to lose?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No group in America has been more harmed by [Democrat] policies than African Americans,&rdquo; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t-jasg-_E5M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>. &ldquo;Tonight, I&rsquo;m asking for the vote of every single African American citizen in this country who wants to see a better future.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;To those I say the following &hellip; What do you have to lose?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patricia Easley, also known as &#8220;P Rae,&#8221; is a determined conservative activist in Chicago who is working to shift the city&#8217;s political landscape. She is the founder of ChicagoRed, a group aiming to bring more conservative voices to the city. Despite facing challenges in a heavily Democratic city, Easley remains optimistic about the potential for change. She has gained attention for her outspoken criticism of leftist policies and has received support from former President Donald Trump. Easley believes that black voters, in particular, are becoming increasingly disillusioned with the Democratic Party and sees an opportunity for a voter revolution. She argues that the Democratic Party has a history of holding back black progress and is hopeful that more black Americans will consider conservative alternatives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2297061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/black-cowgirl.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[35287,3728,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2297060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-african-americans","tag-election","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/black-cowgirl.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2297061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}