Has Houston activist Quanell X endorsed Donald Trump? Kinda sorta

During their regular KRIV-TV segment on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016, Houston's New Black Panther Party leader Quanell X and KTRH-AM morning host Matt Patrick discussed the upcoming presidential election. During their regular KRIV-TV segment on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016, Houston's New Black Panther Party leader Quanell X and KTRH-AM morning host Matt Patrick discussed the upcoming presidential election. Photo: KRIV-TV / YouTube Photo: KRIV-TV / YouTube Image 1 of / 45 Caption Close Has Houston activist Quanell X endorsed Donald Trump? Kinda sorta 1 / 45 Back to Gallery

This week during their regular KRIV-TV segment, Houston's New Black Panther Party leader Quanell X and KTRH-AM morning host Matt Patrick discussed the upcoming presidential election.

The two are known to have lively sparring sessions during their Fox 26 FaceOff segments, touching on racial and societal issues of the day. They've been on air together for nearly five years and have cut around four or five of the segments a week.

The recent segment can be seen here in full on KRIV-TV's YouTube channel.

The two men do get testy with each other but have grown to become friends.

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This week X and Patrick discussed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, with X coming out in favor of Trump, citing what he called a disloyalty to African-Americans by the Democratic Party.

"We have been voting for the Democratic Party like no other race in America, and they have not given us the same loyalty and love that we have given them," X said. "We are being pimped like prostitutes. They are the big pimps, pimping us politically, promising us everything, and we get nothing in return," X said.

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X said he was moved by Trump's recent speech in Milwaukee in the wake of area riots after the shooting of an African-American suspect by a police officer.

"We may not like the vessel that said what he said, but I ask us to truly examine what he said," X said.

During his speech Trump openly courted the African-American vote.

"It's time for our society to address some honest and very, very difficult truths," Trump said Aug.16. "The Democratic Party has failed and betrayed the African-American community. Democratic crime policies, education policies and economic policies have produced only more crime, more broken homes and more poverty."

The entirety of the Trump speech can be read in full at Politico.

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X said that African-Americans need to look at all the parties out there and look out for their own best interests. He added that things didn't seem to get better even with the election of Barack Obama as he feels they were led to believe.

"No politician can save the black community. We got to do it ourselves," X said. "America is in trouble and I want to say to black and white people, only a fool fights in a burning house and this house is on fire."

Patrick is a supporter of Trump, but he has conceded that sometimes he doesn't come across as the most eloquent public speaker.

"I would say he truly dislikes Obama. That's a fact," Patrick told Chron.com on Friday. "He isn't a fan of Trump -- me either -- but we both don't want Hillary."