Jesse was pivotal...

Born in West Palm Beach, Florida and raised in the projects for a year then on Section 8 vouchers, Andre and his family were heavily dependent upon welfare benefits. He remembers standing in line for food stamps and while those recollections are not fond, this was the life he knew. It wasn’t until an encounter with Jesse Jackson that he began to question the Democratic party platform and what it sought to achieve. Later, when he began working on Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign as a volunteer Andre took notice of what would be the final straw – a variety of speaking tactics used by Democratic candidates to address particular ethnicities. Blacks were addressed to differently than latinos who were approached in a manner that was entirely separate from asians. Harper then compared his own values and beliefs to those held by the left and concluded he identified more with the right, an affiliation that comes with all the trappings of treason in theblack community.