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community centers to create wi-fi enabled zones so students from low income families can get the tools they need. >> comcast supports c-span as a puic service, ong with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. k. we are joined by michaelah montgomery, the georgia coordinator for america first works and the founder of conserving culture. welcome. guest: hello. thank you for having me. host: you introduced former president trump at a recent rally in atlanta. how did that come about? guest: i met him in april at the chick-fil-a, and i have been in contact with the team ever since then. president trump invited me and hbcu students to have a private dinner at mar-a-lago. i saw him at detroit when he went for the rally. i was there for the turning

point, conventions, things like that. when i heard he was coming to atlanta, i said what are the odds that i could see him saturday? they said gas, and i made the request on a wednesday night. nobody told me what to say, nobody said make sure you do this, nobody edited my feed, they submitted it, and they said, try to keep it under five minutes. that is the only role i broke. i don't think anybody was upset about it. host: you are very active in politics, can you tell us how you got involved and why? guest: yes. i moved to atlanta, georgia, from las vegas, nevada, and just observing the differences in the quality of education i saw some students receiving, looking at development, specifically urban development, infrastructure and how people complain about the roads, and even now, people are still complaining about the

roads. i thought, there must be a way to do this other than complaining. my senior year bicycle is going i decided to change my major from prelaw to political science, and i knew i could really make change being in government. before i thought i could make change by defending the defenseless, but if i could create laws before the even need to be in a courtroom, i think that would be better. i was actually picked up by janelle king way back in 2017. janelle king was working at the time, letting me know that internships were available. i learned a lot, and i've met a lot of people, and i've been doing the work ever since then. host: you are an organizer for america first work. tell us what that is and affiliation with the trump campaign. guest: the trump campaign has shouted out america first policy

, the entire america first family tree. we are a big -- i would like to say think tank, but a lot of the outsourcing in regards to the mobilization involving volunteers would all come through america first. we also do a lot of events and things like that, so my role is to encourage people to not just pay attention to the election but get involved with the campaign and to encourage their friends to vote to come up with a plan on election day or during early voting, all of those things. at america first, specifically i'm in charged of all interior recruitment, according as a mobilization. host: how is it funded? guest: it is a pac, so i imagine the money comes from donors, donors who support any of our colors, whether that be education, gun rights, pro-life enthusiasts, it would come from donors. host: why do you personally support from work -- former

president trump? guest: due to my personal beliefs. as a former foster child, i really love families. i don't think that just because things did not work out for my birth parents that that did not mean i did not deserve to be here, so that turned me into a pro-lifer. i'm not the type to demonize people for the decisions they like to make but personally if i'm going to vote for my personal view, i'm going to align myself with a pro-life candidate. additionally, i'm a mother now myself, so i pay a lot of attention to the education that my child is receiving. when i moved out here, i noticed differences between the standards of education in nevada and out here in atlanta, georgia. and i did not like how i came here and i felt like not necessarily that i was smarter than everybody else, but i felt like i was equipped with a better education than a lot of other people. i don't know whether that be the allocation of resources or if it had to do it property taxes

worth maybe i got lucky and had amazing teachers my life, as a mother, think it is important that parents have a say so in their child's education and that parents can remain hands-on. for instance, i don't believe there are 53 genders, and i refuse to allow my child to sit in a classroom where they will tell her and tell her that it is true and be tested on it and she will fail if there are only two genders. as a single mother, as a woman, just being able to protect myself, having my second amendment rights protected, i do not want to live in a world in which personal firearms are expected to be surrendered. in a world like that, the only people who have guns or criminals and law enforcement. if someone were to break into my home, which has happened to me recently, i would not be able to protect myself. and whoever was breaking into my home would also know that. and the person breaking into my

home would probably be with a weapon because just like drugs, if people would like something illegal, they are going to get it. those are my three main reasons. additionally, i have a brother formerly incarcerated and now is a returning citizen. i think it is unfair that migrants can commit a crime by illegally migrating over here, and they get rewarded with the same resources my brother will get turned down for. my brother cannot get food stamps, apply for a luxury apartment, and migrants can come over illegally and be awarded food stamps, housing assistance, be granted opportunity to pursue higher education. all of these things, yet my brother born, bred here, born and pay taxes here, he cannot get this but a migrant can. when i look at policy in my personal experience, everything that i would want aligns with

what i feel in the trump side. host: if you like to join our conversation with michaelah montgomery, you can do so. our lines are, republican, (202)-748-8001. democrats, (202)-748-8000. independents, (202)-748-8002. you founded a group called conserve the culture. what is that about? guest: mainly mobilization group. almost a staffing company. i started out as a door-to-door canvasser. when doing those projects, the field director would usually be like, do you have any friends who can join you? can you bring more people with you tomorrow? and me being a political science major in hbcu, all i have to say is i'm doing work for the election, do any of you want to come? of course, everybody would want to come with me, so i would get everybody to my house, and we would wait for the bus to pick

us up, we would go through the neighborhoods, canvas them, go back to my house, which was on campus, so everybody would go to their respective dorms afterwards. that was something that i started getting calls every other week. i was like, this is interesting. eventually, ended up working for this man, and after mobilizing the team, getting them out there, getting them home, i'm going to pick up the money to compensate workers, and he gave me a nice little bit on top of what was owed. and i was like, what is this? he let me know that if you recruit, train, and transport these people, you are a manager, and it is about time you serve -- conduct yourself as such, and now it is primarily not just jobs but i make an effort to make sure they have the opportunity to meet

whatever candidate they are working for, i bring them to different events, townhouse, or they can hear their candidates speak or the issues important to them and i've really done my best and exposing them to the different sides of politics, and i don't expect them all to support trump because my journey that got me here might be different from theirs, so all i can do is give them the same opportunities rented to me and let me allow you to participate in the conversations and let me let you know that you do have access to your commissioner, to your mayor, your governor, you do have a right to speak to them and you have a right to avoid in regard to your concerns, so i bring my kids everywhere. they have not only met president trump but hopeful candidate robert f kennedy, as of. and if joe biden cared about the community, they would have made et him, too, but he did not

make himself accessible. if you still not rock with it, it is what is going on over here, and here's what is going on over there, and let's have conversations about what you learn in this room and how it differs from the next room. that is how i think we will solve the issue, and, you know, how we have high levels of voter registration and low levels. host: the atlanta rally we were talking about where you introduced former president from, a few days before that, he spoke to the national association of like journalists -- of black journalists, and he spoke about kamala harris' identity about how she had just become black. a lot of people say that hurt him with black voters. guest: it seems like black voters are offended by everything except where neutrality is set. while we might be offended that

a rich white man is questioning the nationality of a "black" woman, that "black" woman does not claim to be black outside of campaigning season. so we saw her be black as she was buying to be vp. all of a sudden, she's paying attention to her a.k.a. sorority sisters. but in office you did not see the acknowledgment of her sorority or hbcu. she did not wear pink, green, anything hbcu. she also did not acknowledge the black community while in office. we saw bills for asians past, for migrants, which primarily affect the hispanic community. we saw bills passed for literally everyone but black people. so for her, additionally, after she took that oath of office, she went on record to say she was the first south asian vice president. at no point in time did she promote her blackness or

acknowledge it. at no point in time does she mark it herself as a black woman, and that was when she was attorney general, back when she was d.a., all the way until she was senator. and as vice president, so the fact that she is using this black power during the election season as black people were turning out to vote for her, and if she were to win, she would be in office and then fail those same black people who did everything in their power to get her in. i think that is disgusting, unfair, and i think that is what i personally reached out to the trump campaign and asked if i could speak because you might be offended when he says about what are you going to do and i say it? at the end of the day, i may black woman, i've lived a black life, and.i've paid attention to politics i was excited for her when she ran for president the first time, just the fact she was in the race, i thought, ok, hbcus, do your thing. but she never acknowledged hbcus.

they cut funding to hbcus in the first 100 days of administration. she did nothing to support the very people she's leaning on to win the election. and i wish those same people would understand that if they work to support her in the election and she wins, we will see nothing but a repeat of the last administration in which black people, the same people that everybody counts when it is time to get elected, will also be the first ones to be forgotten about when they are sworn in. host: at a news conference the week before, former president trump attacked brian kemp. i would like to show you a segment and then have you respond. [video clip] >> he is the most disloyal guy i've ever seen. but think of your life, we can never repay you for what you have done, we could never have won, and now she said two weeks ago that i will not endorse her because she has not earned it.

i have not earned her endorsement? i have nothing to do with her. somewhere he went bad. you know what? your numbers in georgia are average, your crime numbers, your economic numbers, they are very average. you can do a lot better you can do better with a better governor. you can do better. but i do not want her endorsement for his endorsement. i would just like them to do their job for georgia. ?you know what you ought to support his republican party because if he does not have his republican party, i could tell you where he came from, and it was not good. [end video clip] host: your response to that. guest: i feel like trump and kemp had a personal friendship, and the media, the current i guess narrative is that trump calls kemp and asked him to find 11,000 votes. it was not until this rally that

i understood the call. the call was can you make the call to start the investigation to see if votes had been lost. i can understand why trump, who used his political promise to help them get into office would be offended at the fact that kemp would not help him at least investigate something he felt had gone wrong in terms of being reelected. i don't see anything wrong with trump personally feeling attacked or like kemp was disloyal for not making the call to start an investigation. additionally, he spoke in atlanta, and as a resident of atlanta, i can see that our crime rates are rampant, i can speak to the fact that people do not want to go out anymore because they fear getting shot. i can tell you that kids no longer walk to the park or hang out at this getting drink or anything like that because crime is an issue. what more can our governor do about it? i would not know because it

seems like a mayoral issue. however, he can try to shine a light on what is happening in atlanta and the surrounding cities in georgia where they might face similar problems. so while i myself have not received or i have not had about experience with governor kemp myself, i'm not going to act like i don't understand why trump would get up and talk about his bad experience with kemp. additionally, the republican party is all about loyalty. so it kind of does make you want to say, yeah, it is interesting that a republican governor would not support the republican party's nomination for president. i understand why trump did not get an endorsement from the two people he helped get elected. hostthis is a comment from x fromric who says if you would like to understand the problem trump created for himself on georgia, today on the radio, nine out of 10 callers on the radio are mad at him for

attacking brian kemp's wife. escorted charlie, republican, arkansas -- let's go to charlie, republican, arkansas. caller: i wanted to ask about referendum voting. we could have some say in things ourselves, and it does not matter who they are, they are not going to represent us, and we have no say. this is the illusion of a democracy. also, i think donald trump is a wonderful person, and i would like to hear what you think about the mar-a-lago visit since you know him personally. since we cannot have any say in our own government, i think he's the answer. host: michaelah montgomery, and the comments on referendum voting? guest: i agree, must like president trump says, they are not trying to do something to

him, they are trying to do something to us. i think referendum voting is something we should support because of the public had a say so in funding the ukraine war, i doubt it would continue. if the public had essay and if we would like little boys to compete in little girl sports, i think that would not pass. if we had a right to vote on a lot of government spending and a lot of relation thing is going on, if we had a right to vote on the migrant issue and should migrants have a clear path to citizenship or should they have to go through a process like other countries, i think that is important and something that should be talked about. host: colin from washington, d.c., independent. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. i lived in georgia during the 2020 election. i do not vote for biden or trump , but i do remember this

rhetoric coming from montgomery, trying to claim that black voters were going to change sides to the republican party. in 2020, i think that black percentage was 6% per trump. i just find it funny that the same kind of song and dance gets longer by the republican party. and it is worth mentioning that michaelah montgomery was the former city director of a far-right we are going to try to "free the plantation mentality," a little quote to the organization. and it was started by candace only. i just think -- candace owen. i think it is disappointing when people are platforms like michaelah montgomery on c-span, who constantly refer to far-right newspapers that are made up.

the washington examiner, look at who founded them. they are connected to the epoque times. host: we will get a response from michaelah montgomery. guest: first of all, i'm a huge fan of candace owens. i went to my first event here in 2019, and the speeches that i heard, the visualizations presented to me, i thought it was great. and when it comes to the democratic plantation, that is a real thing and i don't know why somebody would deal that i would be offended by that. if anybody thinks the same and has been fear mongering into living the same way, yes, that is a plantation because how in the world where so many slaves who outnumbered their masters continue to be slaves? it happened because they were fearful of doing something different. when we say that democrats are on this democratic plantation,, yes, you guys are all lightly following the leader, and you are scared to do something different. additionally, to think somebody

like myself who can clearly articulate their points, opinions, their life experience that has led into support a candidate, it is interesting that somebody would demean c-span for having a guest like me on tv. there are plenty of people who act and wish like a voice like mine had a bigger platform. host: let's talk to lively, georgia, democrat. caller: yes. i did not know that you knew candace owens. she has pretty much been outlasted because of her stances on israel -- out casted because of her stance on israel. as soon as you point on democrats for their failures, you are right that the short. at least we try. republican policies are the complete opposite. they are never going to let you in the club, ok. you are [indiscernible]

i don't know the exact terminology, but you are a complete sellout. host: we will go to robert -- guest: i cannot respond to that? host: you can. guest: thank you. first of all, it sounded like a non-black person calling me that, and that sounds pretty racial and divisive as a democrat. next, it would be interesting that i would be compared to fictional characters because of who i choose to support. these people calling and making derogatory statements about me and who i can support or deny the fact that who are you to tell me that my personal experience is invalid? i think that is something that a lot of democratic people to look at is how have you tried? kamala harris is an office right now and has not tried to do anything about the border, and has not tried to do anything about our failing education system. so everything that she said she could do for you day one, she

could do now but she's not trying to. that is something ford ems to take home. host: indiana, republican, good morning. caller: mr. montgomery, i commend you, sweetheart. you are telling the truth. i would like to tell you -- i know he is 70 years old, i went to my physical and did not pass it, my dad went to world war ii, back when i was a kid, we had black people working for us. there are colors, black, red, yellow, you name it, the eight nr table. they did not have to go to a barn or shed, the ate with the family, and anybody who would like to do anything with their life, work for it. work for it. there are jobs out here.

who would take a shot for this country? who would take shot for this country? and he did take a shot for this country, and it almost killed him. and you idiots out here cannot see that he tries to do right for this country, he loves this country and the people. host: go ahead. guest: i wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment that if you want something, you have to work for it. i moved out to atlanta 10 years ago with two suitcases, $1500, no family, i don't have parents who went to college, i was on my own and i had to figure it out. i worked three jobs to get their college, then i got pregnant, unfortunately, i did not finish ,, but then i thought instead of sitting here and waiting on government assistance to take care of me and my kids, what can i do to uplift us and make it so i have the freedom to raise my child and not worry about money,

and that is where i invested all my time into preserve the culture that allowed me to grow into a business to support my daughter. i cannot go for the excuses and the woe is me, if you want something bad enough, you will work your --off to get it. host: maryland, good morning. caller: i would like to address my comment to mrs. montgomery. if she does not know how she is in her current station of life based on resources or housing taxes or just her look of the draw, i agree, you are not very smart. thank you for taking my call. host: wait, aaron, what are you talking about? guest: let's sound smarter when we ask a question, please. caller: you made a comment

earlier when you were living in nevada and you moved to atlanta, i don't know if it was my resourcesin nevada because i guess you have school systems. guest: actually we don't, we arrange very low, it just so happens the government allocates our dollars better. [indiscernible] [overlapping talking] caller: i'm sorry for talking while you're interrupting, but you go ahead. guest: ok, you heard my sentiments earlier in which i said i moved out here, and i do not want to say i feel like i'm smarter than anybody else, but the resources allocated to me, was it the fact that i got lucky with amazing teachers, nevada ranks low on education, so less not act like i'm not smart. no, i noticed that even with

nevada being raped solo in -- nevada being the rated so low in education, i still felt smarter -- caller: what about property taxes? guest: black black with all the millionaires -- with all the black leaders that live in nevada, why are so many students illiterate? we have democratic mayors, city council mayors, commissioner, and for whatever reason, 92% of the kids are cannot read. that statistic did not exist in nevada. i don't know if it was the fact i got lucky, i cannot say that oh my god it is the teachers, i would never demean our educators here in atlanta, but we can acknowledge the numbers. so you want to call me not smart, tell me what your site has done to fix the illiteracy rate we see in our black students? absolutely nothing. not only have they gotten anything to address the illiteracy issue, they are

further confusing your kids by telling them that men can give birth, by telling them that there are 53 genders, and by telling them that your love for your best friend must mean that you are gay, pansexual, asexual, kids under high school should not be thinking anything sexual, period, sexual should not be in their category. so for you to say that i'm not smart because i'm willing to call out the degeneracy that exists in our current education system only points to your lack of intelligence and initiative to do something in regards to saving our children and schools. host: sam, georgia, democrat. caller: good morning. i have a question i would like to ask and then if you will indulge me, i have a comment. host: go ahead. caller: before we get into it, remember, she did that complaining about the lack of

education, but we also have a republican governor here, as well. so it goes both ways. anyway, i would like to ask her, black she counts herself as a black person, so let's test it, what is the mitigating factor that made the democratic south turn over to the republican party? and i'm waiting for your answer. what is the mitigating -- guest: i don't know what answer you are looking for, and i don't know how to answer that, i can only speak to my personal experience, and for people to question my education, is very interesting. host: i believe you are talking to the civil rights act. caller: the answer to the question is this echo right at. guest: the same civil rights act authored by republicans, ok? caller: can i finish? the act that gave you the right

to sit in the chair you're are sitting in right now and vote. and the city you moved into 10 years ago, that was the cause. there are people still fighting for that same cause -- guest: in america. caller: in america. in the southern part of the state, where i live and love, descartes people trying to change electors in the republican party. guest: we also caught illegal voters -- caller: if you look at history, which you claim to know,, you should be aware that people have died for the cause to vote. and now -- guest: people also died for the cause for us to read. host: let him finish. caller: they i finished, if it is ok? your mother should have taught you better than that. sam, go ahead and finish her

point. the people who died for the cars are still fighting. it is ok if you would like to be democrat or republican, but they are of a different structure. they are the same structure that left the democratic party because they are no republican. that is my comment. guest: so let's start with the 1964 civil rights act or the voting rights act, that was employed by lyndon b. johnson to get black people to support the democratic party for the next 200 years. and it went because much like you heard our caller say, they are still fighting for the right to vote. there is not one american citizen without a felony who does not have the right to vote. all you need is an idea and you can vote. he also acknowledged the fact that while he said we have, state electors we also have state citizens going to vote in the election. but i guess people don't talk about election integrity in that

sense. next, the ploy to get black people to vote for them for the next 200 years was a fear tactic because black people thought that then when they did not vote democrat, they would lose the right to vote. and even though ronald reagan did not take away black people's right to vote for whatever reason, democrats every season talk about voter suppression and protectorates. black people died for the right to vote and for the right to read, so i wish a lot of you would please go read more about jim crow and how the systems were set up to make us believe that we were victims for the rest of our lives. now let's talk about the migrant issue and how it relates to the 1964 voting rights act. the voting rights act was put in place so that black people would be a loyal democratic voting base. black people are now leaving -- host: you are saying that the only reason the civil rights act was passed -- guest: no, the major portion of

the legislation was the fact that it gave black people the right to vote. i democrats touted the fact that they gave black people the right to vote and then used fear mongering to make black people believe if they did not vote democrat, they would lose their right to vote, and whatever resources granted to them by the democrats. now that you see black people leaving the democratic party, and calling out the democratic party, now that you see black people tired of living in the same conditions that they were in when the bill was signed, they no longer have that loyal voter base. so now they are opening the border, letting migrants in, giving them welcome packages with food stamps, housing assistance, whatever else housing, clothing, whatever else it is that they need to come over and live comfortably. why? because when you have illegal migrants coming over, and it is clear that republicans are like get them out, now you have a new voting base, because if we don't vote for the democrats, we will not only lose a right to vote

but our citizenship, as well. it has never been a thing where we will do this for the betterment of the black community or latino community. it is that we will manipulate the masses into believing that we are for them. and even though we will never do anything for them, we will play along their feelings for something we did 60 years ago. host: wyoming, republican, dave. caller: my question -- i would just like to tell her she's doing a fine job on the air telling people what is going on in this world. i appreciate her as a young woman and her knowledge of everything she does. just wonderful to hear somebody with all of her zeal and knowledge. thank you for the. host: thank you. guest: thank you. host: as for the general in maryland -- let's go to jill in

maryland. caller: first, i would like to know why she feels the need to smirk ,neck roll, i roll, and insult everybody who calls her, speaking over them. first of all, she is not that knowledgeable. she has not had experiences that other people have not had and not come out bitter and turning out people who helped her. she is like the proverbial crab in the battle cr group. anyab above her. host: do you have a specific question? caller: she said that -- guest: the answer to the question is, no, i got invited to meet president trump at a restaurant and i found out the next warning it was strictly. nobody wanted -- and i found out that it was chick-fil-a, and nobody wanted to meet it was strictly. it is ok for you all to call me not smart, dumb, to say i have

not done my research and lived a life like you, but if i smirk, laugh, now all of a sudden you are offended. i think that's interesting. you say that i maycrab in a barrel pulling people down, how can i be pulling people down when i was at the bottom of the barrel, decided to crawl out, and now i'm here calling out admitting to the discrepancies in the democratic party and say why was the hood still the hood, it was still a hood when you were a child and now that i have a child. it sounds like more you are the crab at the bottom of the girl tried to keep everybody down, and i'm the one trying to say, y, let's get back to the beach . host: you mentioned supporting ending the tax on tips. est: i wholeheartedly support, yes, ending tax on tips.

host: whawi replace the $38 billion that is reported to help from the country? how would you replace that income? guest: we would put it more on restaurant owners to actually pay their workers a living wage if we are not going to take tax off tips, and then that money would be recouped from payroll taxes, business taxes, sales taxes, things like that, to act echo many could not be recouped from literally any other compound is interesting to me. i don't think that taxing the kids who are already underpaid and then have to go out of their way to earn a tip from the customer should have to pay money on the tip. host: would you support raising the federal minimum wage? guest: i think that the federal minimum wage should reflect the cost of living. but i cannot say that we can change that until we get the economy stabilized because minimum wage might be sufficient if inflation was not so high.

until we get inflation under control, i don't can talk about this because if we raise the minimum wage now, it makes the current situation worse. there are so many things outside of raising the minimum wage that we would have to address before we can go to something that big. host: i left republican, san diego -- ella, republican, san diego. caller: i'm grateful for the chance to say that michaelah montgomery, you are speaking the truth. keep speaking the truth because people are afraid to speak it, and you are absolutely 100% correct about the things you are saying. it is so totally and completely unfair that this country, the immigration crisis, the crime, it is out of control. you cannot buy groceries. people are struggling. the fact of the matter is, kamala harris is not coming out

on television and talking about policies. she is going to hide behind the camera on a teleprompter. she is not going to speak the truth. you are speaking the truth. keep doing what you are doing. thank you your work. guest: thank you. host: philip, mississippi, independent. caller: hi there. young lady, all i can really understand with your explaining to the folks is that you believe that pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps is the way to go, i you just do that, everything will work all right. guest: those words did not come out of my mouth. caller: that is the perception i received. guest: the reality is what i said. host: hold on. michaelah montgomery, clarify what you said. guest: i said that a few want

something bad enough, you will work for it. that is not mean you will not receive outside help. that does not mean that somebody will give you a hand up -- not a handout --it does not mean you have to do it on your own. but the fact of the matter is you will dedicate your time and resources. you will dedicate your life to creating a better situation for yourself. host: go ahead with your comment. caller: ok. now, what i wanted to really ask , how many people can she name that she sees as leaders in the black community that she believes in? and does she listen or take into account some of the teachers like malcolm x in terms of self improvement and for the community? guest: what was the first part of the question?

i love the second part about malcolm x -- i know the second part about malcolm x. caller: let's just take it from right there. guest: malcolm x is actually one of the greatest people i think to ever touch this planet. i hope by any means necessary have that tattooed on my back. if you want something bad enough, you will get it by any means necessary. malcolm x preached that blue eyes, white liberals were the black community's biggest enemy, yet, here you are, touting blue eyes or white liberals, or people who will be controlled by blue eyes, white liberals, it is interesting to me that the martin luther king entity would act like our leaders were not preaching these things to a 60 or 70 years ago. the first part of the question was can identify any black

leaders in the community? unfortunately, all of our leaders have been assassinated. anybody was going to get us to vote against the status quo, who question our current economy and living situation, who question the situations in which black people live, anybody who put up a fight against that wears assassinated. to say that we have a black leader, unfortunately, we don't. we do have black voices trying to shine a light on the wrongs in the community. those black people are attacked, they are are called down, we are called, well, you have not lived my life. it is interesting because you would never talk about malcolm x and martin luther king that way. for whatever reason, we will forget what they preach and just remember what we see, which is we should be democrat. and if you are black, that is what you align yourself with, and eveneven though malcolm x an luther king cole told