CPAC: An Interview with Andre Harper

A former Democrat, author Andre Harper documents his journey to the right side of the spectrum in Political Emancipation.  I had the opportunity to sit down with Mr. Harper and speak with him about the personal experiences that led him to abandon the party he was born into.

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 the black community.  Risking character assassination, he decided to stand for what he believed in an joined the Young Republicans at Florida A&M University, a group of 5 students out of an enrollment of 13,000.

“I believe the liberals and Democratic party have an innate superiority complex over African Americans where they believe they are more intelligent than us which is why they treat us differently than everyone else,” Andre told me.  From cradle to grave, the government instills in the black community that they cannot do anything on their own, that they need help; this, Harper says, is the start of oppression.  He went on to explain that liberals tend to be racist and elitist, not necessarily with malicious intentions as there are “good-hearted liberals” who genuinely believe they are helping those who are apparently incapable of helping themselves.

To combat this mentality, Mr. Harper established The Knowledge Movement, LLC to educate and empower communities of all races about the values of conservatism and the reward of achieving the American Dream. Political Emancipation provides a foundation of knowledge needed for an individual to pull themselves up by the bootstraps and is written by someone who has actually done it.  It also takes on the racial tensions plaguing the country by encouraging people to stop conceding the race card; he gives strategies for combating claims of racism and tips for turning a politically-charged argument into an intellectual debate of principles.

Following this article will be a full review of his book.  For more information about Andre Harper or to purchase his book, please visit www.andreharper.com.

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