by Greg Piper
The co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Rhode Island chapter, who demanded Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse resign or give up his membership in an “all white” club, made a clean break with Democrats this week.
Democratic nominee Kamala Harris getting “anywhere close to power … would be a disaster for the country,” Mark Fisher told the New York Post. While “historically” blacks have voted overwhelmingly for Democrats, “we haven’t gotten anything in return. To me that’s the definition of insanity.”
The self-described lifelong Democrat now regrets voting for Joe Biden in 2020 and says his eureka moment was realizing that “after 60 years, our ghettos still shouldn’t look like a bomb was dropped on it,” education systems “should not still be horribly failing” and crime and poverty remained “abysmal.”
Fisher has been a public fan of GOP nominee Donald Trump for a year, when President Biden was still the presumptive Democratic nominee.
“We’ve been used and abused for so long by that party,” he told YouTube host Kim Iversen Nov. 6, 2023. “They don’t value our vote” and Democratic policies are “basically racist,” while Trump is “going to give it to you straight” and has done more for blacks than “any president I can think of in my lifetime.”
Fox News reported that the national BLM and BLM Rhode Island PAC, a separate in-state organization, have called Fisher an “imposter” who endorsed Trump for “a publicity stunt.”
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Just the News reporter Greg Piper has covered law and policy for nearly two decades, with a focus on tech companies, civil liberties and higher education.
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