In this episode, I sit down with former Texas Governor Rick Perry and discuss how he became a conservative Republican and why he decided to run for the Texas governorship in 2016. I also talk about how he came to be a Republican and how he got his start in politics.
00:00:08.340And they'll ultimately become fond of you.
00:00:10.520So talking and conversating, I want to meet people that black people think is against us, to come back and say if they're really against us.
00:00:20.200That's how I became a Republican in Texas.
00:00:22.680After the George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin verdict, I didn't want to join the Hateful Black Lives Matter group.
00:00:30.000I got a loving mother who says, son, God has no respect of person.
00:05:16.200And this is what caused the breakdown because I was used as a political pawn from the power structure.
00:05:30.560They needed a voice like mine that was dynamic, that challenged the black preachers.
00:05:34.200And I challenged them and I shamed them.
00:05:36.020So white people grabbed me and made me a poster child.
00:05:39.040They used me to, as a voice piece, to go out into the black community, to bridge the gap between law enforcement and the black community.
00:05:48.700So at the time, they had, the federal government had just issued out a national initiative to six cities that probably could be the next Baltimore riots.
00:05:55.900So Fort Worth was one of those cities.
00:05:57.880It was called 21st century community policing.
00:06:04.320So they kind of wanted to bring back, beat cops, where the cops know the neighborhood, put more.
00:06:09.840So they had this, they had this program that the police department developed by way of this national initiative that was called procedural justice.
00:06:17.840Procedural justice was a new training aspect that was brought to new law enforcement to kind of have them more race sensitive, right?
00:06:26.160And they needed a black voice to go out.
00:06:28.160So I was one of the main voices that they used.