Fayettville Observer: Clarence Henderson was part of the sit-in movement of 1960 that desegregated retail stores.
Civil rights pioneer Clarence Henderson visited Fayetteville on Tuesday to encourage black voters to join the Republican Party and to encourage the party to welcome black voters.
Henderson, who in 1960 was part of the sit-in movement in Greensboro that desegregated retail store lunch counters, is the president of the North Carolina chapter of the Frederick Douglass Foundation. He spoke before the Cumberland County Republican Women’s Club.
The Frederick Douglass Foundation seeks to grow the ranks of conservative Christian black Republicans, Henderson said, and it has had success.
“What the Democratic Party is most afraid of is conservative blacks,” Henderson said. MORE
Looks like someone done run off the plantation.
Worst newspaper report I’ve read in a while. Would have been nice if they had given a little substance as to why he is a Republican now.
Never happen, LBJ called it.
I don’t think the Richmond Free Press will reprint this.
How long before the FBI Agents hit team is sent out and find he committed “suicide”, or the CNN Agents discover a 70 year white womam that “he raped” 50 years ago?
GOTTA admire his stones – I pray him MUCH success.
Now we just need a “sad Barky” smiley icon. 😛
How do you “encourage blacks to become part of the party”?
Give them free shit?
Nobody whined and dined me to be a republican. Why do they feel having a dark skin pigment require an invitation to vote for a republican?
It’s ironic that they are mostly democraps now and trying to segregate themselves.
He is rational and measured.
Could the freeing of D slaves happen faster with more inflammatory words? Perhaps. But this works.
Will republicans give me money from cradle to grave?
No
I’ll pass.
Is time for the black people to runaway from that plantation.