As a black man, conservative political analyst Shermichael Singleton says he has watched with grief and disappointment as the GOP struggles to grapple with the protests over racial injustice and policing. 'It leaves me wondering: Why am I a Republican?'
— explained how he came to feel he is in a"no-man's land," alongside"many right-leaning and conservative individuals who are slowly finding themselves in that same position."I am gravely disappointed about this moment in time we find ourselves in. I often have been taught by my parents ... that despite our differences — differences of race, that is — that our hopes and dreams in this country have always been the same.
But I still have hope. I have to have hope in this country, because I know that the country that my grandparents and my great-grandparents lived in is no more; there's still remnants. And so my hope is that this time, we can clear those remnants so that as we go forward, there will be no more. So that when I have children, they won't have to deal with or imagine the things that I am currently dealing with now — not only as an African-American, but simply as as an American.
Has the Republican Party, which after all, founded in 1854 to expose the expansion of slavery, the party of [Abraham] Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Jackie Robinson, Sen. Edward Brooke, Colin Powell and you, how did they become the party that defends the Confederate flag? To be a conservative doesn't necessarily mean that one wants to go backwards. To be a conservative is to understand that there are certain things that we have inherited that are good, that we must preserve as we move forward, because to move forward is an innate part of human nature.
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