Black Trump voter: I won’t be shamed into voting for Hillary

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.”