You’re Not Down With Brother Obama? 15 Black Celebs Who Have Republican Tendencies

September 12th, 2012 - By Blair Bedford

As the next Presidential election draws nigh in November, the two most popular candidates, Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney have been paving the campaign trail. With election year comes slander, controversy and your occasional celebrity political rants. Politics met entertainment with the latest celebrity rant, coming from Nicki Minaj, in which she rapped in vote of Republican Mitt Romney. This was a shock to fans and celebrity bloggers everywhere, but Nicki is not the only popular African-American face that has shown favor to the GOP.  Here is a list of some African-American celebrities who have supported or are affiliated with the Republican party:

Source: USA Today

LL Cool J

LL Cool J attended the Republican Convention in 2004 and has been a supporter of Republican New York governor George Pataki back in 2002. He has never officially stated his political party.

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  • jptlonggolf

    Colin Powell ain’t no republican and he certainly ain’t conservtive. backing Obama took him out of my Friends list.
    Makes me sick that these people are singled out for being of Color instead of just being smart concservatives or republicans.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Keith-Davidson/100001017183306 Keith Davidson

    Superabound, you cannot prove one thing you’ve posted. it’s all made up! Every bit of it is completely false and you know it. So then the question becomes, why? Why do you get out here in the blog-o-sphere and just repeatedly puke up things that are 100% false? You must want something specific. I’m guessing it’s “free stuff”. I’m right, aren’t I? You like Obama and the Democrats because they’re constantly promising “free-stuff”.

    • fatjoe

      what free stuff r u talking about
      please provide proof

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Keith-Davidson/100001017183306 Keith Davidson

        45 Million people on food stamps (16 million more than on the day Obama took office) Extensions on number of weeks allowable for unemployment. Reductions on the work requirement placed on welfare by Congress in the 90′s under Clinton. Pretty much everything Obama has promised to people who don’t want to “pay their fair share” while he demands that the only people who really ARE paying their fair share must “pay more”. If you argue with what I just said then you are arguing against the facts.

  • Anti- White

    I wished you could stfu!

    thank you!

  • rhetoricus

    Colin Powell is an Obama supporter.
    Very duplicitous list you have here. And you can’t assume that pre-Civil Rights Act Republicans would support the GOP of today, wherein former Dixiecrats are now all Tea Partiers. According to WSJ’s latest poll, Romney is pulling less than 1% of the black vote. Nice try, folks.

  • ladypatriot

    Yep! You said it!

  • Qarlo

    Martin Luther KING SR was a Republican, MLK JR was a Democrat. They both voted for JFK. You people need to do your research and accept the fact that your party needs (and has always needed) some serious reformation.

    • tlp

      WRONG! Both SR and JR were Republicans. Just ask King’s daughter.

      • http://profile.yahoo.com/2XLSCH4OGANFQAD6GEVFH4MC5Y krystal

        you are wrong

  • eyeEEsha

    First of all, I’m well aware that the Republicans freed the slaves and of their part during the civil rights era. I don’t need a history lesson. Thanks. And I don’t think that my statement was Pro-Democrat or Anti-Republican so calm it down. No one is debating the historical significance of the Republicans to African Americans. I just personally don’t believe that the Republicans of yesteryear and the Republicans of today really hold the same values when it comes to race relations. And I also know the racist history of the Democrats, but I wasn’t talking about them. I also think that as far as values go, Republicans have a lot more in common with the black community and if it wasn’t for the racist vibes that the Republican party seems to give off, I think they would have no problem winning almost every election. You might not feel this way and that’s fine. I’m just saying I don’t think you can really compare modern Republicans or Democrats for that matter, to those of years ago.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Keith-Davidson/100001017183306 Keith Davidson

      eyeEEsha I dare say the only reason many people believe that of today’s Republicans is simply because that’s what they’ve heard so much that they just take it as status quo. You know what they say, “repeat a lie enough times and people will begin to believe it”. Unfortunately Republicans and southern whites have been the victims of this cruel and unfair tactic, which comes primarily from liberals and the leftist Democrats. Odd that they are always the ones who start pointing the finger and bringing race into every discussion and yet it’s the Republicans who are labeled the racists. It just doesn’t make sense that a demographic of people would start out not racist and somehow become racist over time. I think it’s more likely that people who start out racist may be prone to lose their racist tendencies over time due to the simple fact that racism is by definition such an ugly and socially unacceptable thing. I do not purport that the Republican party, or the South for that matter is free and clear of racism; God knows I see racism rear its ugly head far too often where I live. I’m just saying I can tell you with extreme confidence that it is not as prevalent as the liberal left will have you believe. Listening to people like Joe Biden say “They gawn’ put y’all back in chains”, and Sheila Jackson Lee accusing the Republicans of speaking in racist code words, they would have everyone thinking that if you’re white and Republican, and especially if you’re from the South, then there’s no way you’re not racist. Absolutely rediculous and patently false. Just sayin’

      • Piper

        What in the he** are “racist vibes,” other than your personal opinion?

    • coolerking

      The only racist vibes the Republicans give off are the ones media elements, the Democrats and people who don’t know they are being manipulated as “victims” by the Democrats ascribe to them out of thin air.

  • Janet Rice

    This article is whack. Some of these “Republicans” were affiliated with the party long before the mass exodus of conservative Dixiecrats from the Democratic Party in the early 1960s. Others might as well be independent. Just because they supported Bush in a past election doesn’t mean they aren’t “down with Brother Obama” now.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GLKTB2UMERGDAIHMAN5G65GQ4E Sheila

    You get crazier with every comment you make SB – obviously, whatever you’re smoking, snorting, or mainlining is starting to take full effect! Are you just hallucinating, or outright lying – or can you even tell the difference? If there had EVER been “hundreds of tea party signs” with racial slurs, we’d ALL know about it – the media was just LOOKING for any obvious signs of racism….they NEVER found them!

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Greg-Eatroff/1013946885 Greg Eatroff

      The signs got reported, Sheila — it’s just that people like you ignore those reports or dismiss them as lies. You’re very good at “dropping things down the memory hole.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/harry.flashman.376 Harry Flashman

    The Rock is black? I always thought he was a white guy.

  • usmc1063

    What this article has failed to promote that prior to the 1960′s the majority of Black Americans stood firmly within the Republican isle’s That is a little know fact atleast on the liberal side of the coin. It wasn’t until LBJ secured the majority of the Black vote with so called appeasements in his Civil Rights Act “IE Government handouts” in the mid 60ties. Since then each democratic President aterward added to the pot. Where once welfare was a shameful handup, it’s now considered execatable way of life.

  • robert

    they are all blue eyes with color skin.

  • Thrixdog

    I notice how you cut off Colin Powell’s description without putting that he supported Barack Obama in 2008′s election.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000595128061 Kbabercrombie Brown

    I’m A Proud Republican. and Will Forever Be. Democrats helped Bring the Fall Minority Communities and Other Disadvantage Communities in the USA.Some People In The USA need to wake UP Forreal. Its a LIE that That Dem’s Were helping the Black Community…psssfhht Some Help. Its because of them Partly Why Child Support & Section 8 & All those ” PROBLEMS ” Exists in the Minority Communities. read on. Research.Educate Yourselves People. and Don’t Forget To Vote.

    • ulackreason

      I initially came to see the comments because many writers have an agenda one way or another, but then I remembered something. I had this vivid dream of the Glorified Christ standing at His throne and it took my breath away and terrified me at the same time considering the sinful life I have lived. I do believe I am a Christian and believe in my eternal salvation but I weep for this country and all of us because I see the Revelation quickly coming and I wonder how many of us are so blind we will be so busy with all of these pointless issues even while the Deceiver is having a field day with us. Remember his time is short and he comes like a roaring lion seeking to whom he may devour. His greatest trick is his deception (Which I believe is making up -down, black-write, blue-green, etc.) Consider what are the most important things to you and expect it all to end by next week while planning that you will be here for another 50 years.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HRJROF6PAEEA6LZCL4FNGSXLCA Sakuji

    The Rock isn’t black, he is a pacific islander… Samoan I think.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Thorne-Kontos/100002208655723 Thorne Kontos

    Obama has had 4 years… Is this the direction we as a country should be moving in?

    • Black teen unemployment, now at 37%, is near Depression-era highs (Labor Department).

    • Almost 1 in 6 Americans are now poor — the highest ratio in 30
    years — and the total number of poor, at 49.1 million, is the largest on
    record (Census).

    • The share of Hispanics in poverty has topped that of blacks for the first time, 28.2% to 25.4% (Census).

    • The number of Americans on food stamps — 45 million recipients, or
    1 in 7 residents — also is the highest on record (Congressional Budget
    Office).

    • Total government dependency — defined as the share of Americans
    receiving one or more federal benefit payments — is now at 47%, highest
    ever (Hoover).

    • The share of Americans paying no income tax, at 49.5%, is the highest ever (Heritage Foundation, IRS).

    • The national homeownership rate, now at 65.4%, is the lowest in 15 years (Census).

    • The 30-point gap between black and white Americans who own their
    own homes is the widest in two decades and one of the widest on record
    (Census).

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Maliheh-Banoo/100001527498988 Maliheh Banoo

      how many times have the republicans blocked unemployment benefits? i can name at least 3 times

    • http://twitter.com/docbndgrl9113 Keesha (Киша)

      What were those numbers when Obama came into office? I mean I don’t agree with everything that Obama has done while in office, but it seems like people thought that he would turn this country around in four years. It took longer than four years to get us into this mess.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Thorne-Kontos/100002208655723 Thorne Kontos

    In his book
    “Dreams From My Father”, Obama wrote disdainfully about
    blacks who complain about being poor, yet continue to vote
    for Democrats — like Obama — who keep them poor. On page
    147 of his book, Obama described what he and his fellow
    Democrats do to poor blacks as “plantation politics” when
    he wrote: “A plantation. Black people in the worst jobs.
    The worst housing. Police brutality rampant. But when the
    so-called black committeemen came around election time,
    we’d all line up and vote the straight Democratic ticket.
    Sell our soul for a Christmas turkey.”

    We have all seen floating around the Internet the definition of insanity.

  • http://www.facebook.com/brainchristo Vernial Batts

    Way to go Steve!! That’s what I’m talking about. Thank God for truthful men like you!

  • http://www.facebook.com/vanderfk Kristine Vanderford

    What a breath of fresh air, Steve you do know your history. Thank you for that.

  • http://www.facebook.com/travisgjohnson Travis Johnson

    Colin Powell publicly endorsed Obama in ’08 and has criticized Mitt Romney heavily this year. He doesn’t fit the list.

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