Black Ex-Liberal Former Cop ’Woke Up’ to ‘Reality’: America Isn’t So Racist After All
<p>Brandon Tatum, a black former police officer in Tucson, Arizona, says he started out as a liberal, but through a personal evolution over time, he became a conservative. </p><br><p>"I started out like most young, black men in the country, where default is being liberal. Default is being a Democrat," he explains.</p><br><p>"All of the Democrat positions that you see most African-American men believing today is what I believed before, even though I wasn't politically involved as much as I am today. But over time, I began to wake up and be more involved, and I woke up to what the reality was," Tatum said. "A lot of that happened when I was in college. I started to see that the country isn't as racist as I thought it was."</p><br><p>We also cover these stories:</p><ul><li>The Senate is moving forward with a 2,700-page, $1 trillion infrastructure bill<strong>.</strong></li><li>A report from Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee asserts that COVID-19 was accidentally released from a lab at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.</li><li>Former President Barack Obama turns 60 on Wednesday and plans to celebrate with a huge birthday bash at his mansion on Martha’s Vineyard, a Massachusetts island, this coming weekend. But concerns about COVID-19 and the delta variant are prompting some to question whether the party plans, with 475 invited guests, including A-list celebrities, should proceed.&nbsp;</li></ul><p><br></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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Brandon Tatum, a black former police officer in Tucson, Arizona, says he started out as a liberal, but through a personal evolution over time, he became a conservative.
"I started out like most young, black men in the country, where default is being liberal. Default is being a Democrat," he explains.
"All of the Democrat positions that you see most African-American men believing today is what I believed before, even though I wasn't politically involved as much as I am today. But over time, I began to wake up and be more involved, and I woke up to what the reality was," Tatum said. "A lot of that happened when I was in college. I started to see that the country isn't as racist as I thought it was."
We also cover these stories:
- The Senate is moving forward with a 2,700-page, $1 trillion infrastructure bill.
- A report from Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee asserts that COVID-19 was accidentally released from a lab at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.
- Former President Barack Obama turns 60 on Wednesday and plans to celebrate with a huge birthday bash at his mansion on Martha’s Vineyard, a Massachusetts island, this coming weekend. But concerns about COVID-19 and the delta variant are prompting some to question whether the party plans, with 475 invited guests, including A-list celebrities, should proceed.
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