Pierry Benjamin has been a community activist for years, working endlessly to better the lives of vulnerable people in urban cities. Despite all his work, people in the black community have negative things to say to him when they find out he's a Republican and a Trump supporter.

Pushing back from all the negativity, Benjamin posted a video to Facebook addressing how many black people put him down for not being a Democrat.

"I've been called an Uncle Tom, I've been called a traitor, I've been called a sellout," Benjamin said. "What strikes me the most, though, is that people that are calling me these things look like me. So, I think that it's important that before we go out and vote for an elected official, us within the African American community need to vote for each other."

In an interview with Red Alert Politics, Benjamin said that the different levels of respect he's received from different communities is very interesting.

"I've worked with so many amazing communities, so many different religious sects and never one time been insulted or disrespected," the 31-year old Republican said to Red Alert. "Because I'm a young black man in the party, people have an immediate respect for me that I go against the grain. In retrospect in the black community, I'm constantly challenged."

He said that if he were a rapper, who cursed, he would have been accepted, but because he doesn't fit the cookie cutter mode of a young angry black Democrat, he receives negative attention.

"It comes from people who look like me and come from the same disparities, more often than not I feel opposition. It's a social epidemic that has lasted for decades and now we're dealing with it," he told Red Alert.



Benjamin said that the biggest challenge is that the urban centers and black communities are facing failing schools, a lack of employment, and high crime, but don't change their voting patterns.

"Regardless, if you don't agree with my political views, you should agree with the fact that I'm on the same side of the fence that you're on," Benjamin continued in the video. "Because when I get pulled over by a policeman, he doesn't know what I am, he doesn't know what I've contributed to the community... he sees another black man, in a car, in a challenged neighborhood, and he wants for whatever reason to make sure I'm not doing anything illegal."

He continued to say that he doesn't care about being right, he cares about being effective and helping out urban communities that desperately need assistance.

"What bothers me the most is how someone would criticize me before understanding that I look just like them, I come from the same places that they come from, I have many of the same experiences that they have, the only difference is that I chose to do something different about it."

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