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Charlotte, North Carolina has a black mayor, a black police chief, a black fire chief, a black school board chair, a black district attorney, and it will soon have a black sheriff — and the state’s former governor is very upset about this fact.

As governor, Republican Pat McCrory signed the most comprehensive v**er suppression law in the nation. Indeed, this law was arguably the most aggressive attempt any state made to keep black v**ers away from the polls since the Jim Crow era. As a federal appeals court that struck the law down explained, state lawmakers studied racial v****g patterns within the state, and then “enacted legislation restricting all — and only — practices disproportionately used by African Americans.”

Flash forward to less than two years after McCrory lost his ree******n bid, and the ex-governor is now a talk radio host in Charlotte. And he’s not the least bit happy that his city will be led by black people.

“We’ve become a very segregated political system in Charlotte-Mecklenburg,” an agitated McCrory claimed in the opening of his radio show Wednesday. “The Democratic Party controls every political body in Charlotte-Mecklenburg,” and “the Black Political Caucus has total control over the Democratic Party.”

McCrory’s jeremiad against the fact that many black politicians have built successful careers in Charlotte came one day after African-American former police detective Garry McFadden crushed the county’s white incumbent Sheriff Irwin Carmichael in a Democratic primary e******n.

This race was widely viewed as a referendum on whether Charlotte jailers would help federal authorities round up undocumented immigrants. McFadden, who opposes such an immigration crackdown, won about 52 percent of the v**e. Carmichael, who supports it, won only 20 percent and took third place.

There is no Republican candidate opposing McFadden, so McFadden is all-but-certain to become sheriff after this November’s general e******n. He will join several other African Americans who serve in elected offices within Charlotte, including Democratic Mayor Vi Lyles.

The fact that black public officials thrive in Charlotte should not surprise anyone. The city is majority-minority and more than a third of its residents are black. African-Americans also make up a majority of the city’s Democrats, and the city as a whole is heavily Democratic — Mayor Lyles defeated her Republican opponent by nearly 20 points in 2017.

That does not mean that white people are cut out of power in Charlotte — the city’s mayor pro tem is a white woman, for example, as is Lyles’ predecessor. But it does mean that citywide elected officials will tend to be politicians who build strong and enduring relationships with the city’s African-American community.

Yet, for McCrory, the fact that a black former detective defeated a white incumbent sheriff is proof of some grand conspiracy. “All primaries,” McCrory claimed, are “determined by the Black Political Caucus,” and this group “totally abandoned the white male Democratic sheriff.”
https://thinkprogress.org/pat-mccrory-delivers-a-r****t-rant-against-black-politicians-8a48051e27f6/

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I can see that you are reaching out for help.

If only you would channel your energy in the direction of Making America Great, you would sleep alot better at night.
There is really no reason to be afraid of our President. He is not the enemy you seek.