History is filled with examples of how one person can stand up and begin to make a difference. “Less than five years ago, Mark Robinson was working at a furniture factory when he decided to make his views on gun control heard at a meeting of the Greensboro City Council in North Carolina,” says the Rumble page of the exclusive video interview below which continued “His [Robinson’s] passionate speech went viral on Facebook, and he’s now the state’s first black lieutenant governor, with an eye on running for North Carolina’s top office in 2024.” That memorable – and seemingly unscripted – Facebook/YouTube video is posted below. “The majority are law abiding,” said Robinson who railed that the police can’t properly enforce laws now, and more gun control will only lead to gangs like the Crips and the Bloods keeping their weapons, leaving the law abiding defenseless.
“They want their Constitutional rights…” “We need to dispel all these myths” and “division that we’ve got,” said Robinson in the video above. “We are going to keep our rights come Hell or high water,” said Robinson to applause.
“In an interview with WND, Robinson discusses his American dream story, which he chronicles in his newly published autobiography, “We are the Majority!”
He recounts growing up “dirt poor,” the ninth of 10 children, in a rat-infested home with an alcoholic father who beat his mother. But he believes he learned more than he ever could have by growing up in a big house, attending a private school or traveling the world.
“Character gets built on struggles,” he told WND. “When you have to face situations where you don’t have enough to eat, when your family has reached the last of the last. Those are the things that are either going to make you or break you.”
From the WND Newscenter to MHProNews is the following.
WND EXCLUSIVE
Mark Robinson: From ‘dirt poor’ to lieutenant governor via viral video
First black to hold position sees grace of God in his American story
By Art Moore
Published October 11, 2022 at 7:59pm
His passionate speech went viral on Facebook, and he’s now the state’s first black lieutenant governor, with an eye on running for North Carolina’s top office in 2024.
In a video interview with WND (embedded below), Robinson discusses his American dream story, which he chronicles in his newly published autobiography, “We are the Majority!”
He recounts growing up “dirt poor,” the ninth of 10 children, in a rat-infested home with an alcoholic father who beat his mother. But he believes he learned more than he ever could have by growing up in a big house, attending a private school or traveling the world.
“Character gets built on struggles,” he told WND. “When you have to face situations where you don’t have enough to eat, when your family has reached the last of the last. Those are the things that are either going to make you or break you.”
Robinson said he begins his public talks thanking “his Lord and savior Jesus Christ” because he’s not a perfect man and owes everything good in his life to God.
“When I was a little kid, going through those tough times in that little red house on Logan Street, God was right there with me,” he said.
“My mom saw to that – my mom was a prayerful woman.”
Now that he’s become one of the state’s top officials, he’s “not going to stop thanking God.”
Robinson, a strong pro-life advocate, has acknowledged that as a young man, he urged his girlfriend, who later became his wife, to get an abortion.
Addressing the accusations of “hypocrisy,” he said he and his wife, Yolanda, want to share their story to help others avoid what they went through.
“We understand people are going to make their own decisions, but we want to have a voice out there to tell folks this is something that isn’t going to go away,” he said. “This is something that’s going to follow you and haunt you, and we want people to make the right decision.”
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s “We are the Majority!” is available at the WND Superstore
‘A heartbeat away’
WRAL, the NBC affiliate in Raleigh, published a feature last month on Robinson, based on interviews, titled “The enigma of Mark Robinson: How NC’s outspoken lieutenant governor is climbing the GOP ladder.”
The news station said the “once-frightened child from Greensboro,” who is “a heartbeat away from running the state,” has become “one of the most animating and divisive figures in North Carolina politics, with a view of fairness that makes others fearful of how he’d act as governor if elevated to the office or if he’s elected in 2024.” The chief “fears,” WRAL said, are his advocacy for “tighter abortion restrictions, looser gun control and stricter immigration measures.”
He stands by bold statements he’s made on his personal Facebook page and in churches condemning same-sex marriage, homosexuality, transgender activism and other moral issues.
Robinson said he wants people to understand that “as an individual in this nation, you have the right to express your opinion.” However, when it comes to governing, his opinions must never violate someone’s constitutional rights.
There is one social media statement he wishes he “would have worded differently,” a comment on blacks making a big deal about the movie “Black Panther” that brought charges of anti-Semitism. In the book, he noted that he was paraphrasing a joke by filmmaker Mel Brooks, and he wished he would have just quoted Brooks directly.
Breaking from the Democrats
Because of the far-left ideology taking over the Democratic Party, he said, “we’re seeing a break for many black people in this country from that party.”
“Many, many black people across this country are starting to take a look and say, ‘Hey, what is this party doing?’ And more importantly, ‘What have they done for our communities? If they’re really working hard for our communities, why have our communities been plunged into poverty for all these decades with no change?'”
Many blacks have become independents, he said, “and many, quite frankly, are leaving and becoming Republicans.”
‘We were victorious over slavery’
Robinson told WND he believes America’s schools should not shy away from telling the full story of the “terrible institution” of slavery, noting there is an ongoing fight against bigotry.
“But at the end of the day, we need to tell that story not as victims, but as victors,” he said. “Why? Because we were victorious over slavery. We defeated it in the Civil War. We ended it with our Constitution, and we continued to struggle against the tenets of that slavery and that racism throughout Jim Crow, and we ultimately defeated that as well.”
Asked about a possible run for governor in 2024, Robinson noted that there won’t be an incumbent running for the office, and he has been preparing for the possibility, learning as much as he can as he serves as the No. 2 to North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper.
“If the people of North Carolina would have me, this is definitely something that we are taking a look at,” he said.
On the road with Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson singing Johnny Cash, “I’ve Been Everywhere.” He nails it! pic.twitter.com/sBlIRXzHws
— Mark Walker (@RepMarkWalker) September 20, 2021
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I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue & stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are… pic.twitter.com/oAuTnxZldf
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) October 11, 2022
I believe in a government that is of, by, and for the people. Unfortunately, today’s Democratic Party does not. Instead, it stands for a government of, by, and for the powerful elite. I’m calling on my fellow common sense independent-minded Democrats to join me….
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) October 11, 2022
Click the link to watch my full statement on why I’m leaving the Democratic Party: https://t.co/pH58rEFpmS
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) October 11, 2022
Hawaiian Gabbard and North Carolina’s Robinson are literally at opposite ends of the U.S. It is no light thing to leave the Democratic Party for someone who was elected to Congress and ran as a Democrat for that party’s presidential nomination. It is no light thing for a black man to be a Republican.
By bucking conventional wisdom, each of these personalities and many others are doing what is arguably necessary in the manufactured housing profession and America in general. The manufactured housing industry is a shadow of its go-go-days in the 1990s. Yet manufactured housing industry leaders want to gaslight thousands of professionals into thinking that things are going well because the industry is up from its artificial all time low.
Similarly, politicians and corporate leaders that Gabbard is railing against are taking the U.S. down a dangerous path, as several current and former Democrats are warning. It is no surprise when Republicans say that the Democrats are undermining the U.S. from within. But when longtime or lifelong Democrats cry out against the danger and are urging people not to vote Democratic, that speaks volumes.
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