What Would Kate Zernike Say To Andre Harper?

Given New York Times journalist Kate Zernike's smearing of Jason Mattera for his alleged racist rhetoric, I've opted to post my interview with Andre Harper today. Audio below. When Andre approached me at CPAC about his book, Political Emancipation, available here - I told him I wanted to be certain he was authentic. At least, that's the word we both settled upon to mean what I had in mind.

“Andre’s riveting experience boldly illustrates how the liberal indoctrination among black people and culture has done nothing but abandon them. Yet, he has been able to claim empowerment by breaking free of this indoctrination and embracing a more empowering one, one that will change the fate of his children’s children.”

Armstrong Williams Nationally Syndicated TV, Radio Host

I wanted to know if his was a voice of an Ivy educated black man whose parents had already climbed up from perhaps something less than what most Americans aspire to, or was he the real deal. Andre insisted he was.

Born in West Palm Beach, Florida and raised in the projects for a year then on Section 8 vouchers, Andre and his family were heavily dependent upon welfare benefits. He remembers standing in line for food stamps and while those recollections are not fond, this was the life he knew. It wasn’t until an encounter with Jesse Jackson that he began to question the Democratic party platform and what it sought to achieve. Later, when he began working on Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign as a volunteer Andre took notice of what would be the final straw – a variety of speaking tactics used by Democratic candidates to address particular ethnicities. Blacks were addressed to differently than latinos who were approached in a manner that was entirely separate from asians. Harper then compared his own values and beliefs to those held by the left and concluded he identified more with the right, an affiliation that comes with all the trappings of treason in the black community. Risking character assassination, he decided to stand for what he believed in an joined the Young Republicans at Florida A&M University, a group of 5 students out of an enrollment of 13,000.

Given that Zernike's malicious attack on Mattera seems part and parcel of the very same destructive tactics Harper, a black man, accuses liberals of always using when it comes to matters of race, what is it she might say to Harper, I wonder? And did she ever get around to interviewing him at CPAC? Or, is his a voice she might not care to hear and relay to the readers of the New York Times? The audio:

Comments

[Douglas]

I used to work in a mail room as a a repair "engineer" low level tech for the inserters sorters printers folders, etc. All of the operators were minorities. Struck up a friendship with one of them, an older black man, who happened to be a republican, and we had a small joke. "The only person in chicago that rubbernecks more than a crack dealer is a black republican."

[FeFe]

Great interview. My sister, who happened to be within earshot who I thought wasn't listening, wanted to know all about him as the force of his arguments rang true.