In June, 2016, Gregory Cheadle attended a rally by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in Redding, California.
Cheadle stood out as a Black Republican, and even more so since Trump referred to him as ‘my African-American.’
Now 63, Cheadle is a real estate broker and a volunteer at a hospital emergency room.
According to CNN, Cheadle now says he is a very different man than the one who went to hear Trump four years ago.
Cheadle says he has since lost respect for some Black Republican conservatives, comparing them to ventriloquists’ dolls: Black puppets controlled by Whites.
He also says he was deflated by how the Republican party reacted to the death of former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain.
Cain, who was Black, died after contracting coronavirus soon after attending a Trump rally without wearing a mask.
It was sad that he died, but even more sad that he was not given any honor by the Republican Party. It was like, ‘He’s dead. No problem. Goodbye.’ Gregory Cheadle
