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Earlier this week, a 13-year-old kid named Coreco JaQuan Pearson
sat down in front of a camera in the kitchen of his home in
Grovetown, Ga. CJ had a lot on his mind: the 14-year-old Muslim
student invited to the White House after he was wrongly arrested
for building a clock thought to be a bomb; the young woman
allegedly shot by an undocumented immigrant in San Francisco;
the four Marines gunned down in Chattanooga over the summer; the
Black Lives Matter movement.

President Obama, CJ feared, didn’t have his White House in
order. It was a lot to distill into a short message — one that
would catch fire among CJ’s 35,000 Twitter followers and large
YouTube audience. But CJ was determined to make this quick — and
needed little more than two minutes to make his point.

“Mr. President,” he began, speaking with a Southern twang. “When
Kate Steinle was gunned down by an illegal immigrant, you didn’t
do anything. You didn’t even call the family. You didn’t invite
them to the White House. Is that okay? I don’t think so, Mr.
President.”

Twenty seconds had gone by — but CJ was just getting warmed up.

“When cops are being gunned down, you don’t invite their family
to the White House,” he said. “You never did.”

This was just the set-up. Then came the punch.

“When a Muslim kid builds a clock?” CJ said. “Well, come on by.
What is this world that you are living in?”

As smoothly as a seasoned commentator three or four times his
age, CJ then pivoted. He pointed out that it took Obama longer
to lower the White House flags to half-staff than it did to
light 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. with rainbow colors after the
Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage. He blamed Obama
for the immigration policies that allowed Steinle’s killer in
the country. He blamed Obama for rules that prevented Marines
from carrying their own firearms in Chattanooga. He said Obama
was trying to appease “domestic terrorists” — that is, Black
Lives Matters protesters.

“Mr. President, what are your priorities here?” he said.
“Because in all honesty, I think you’re being ignorant, I think
you’re incompetent, and I don’t think you understand reality.”

CJ’s conclusion: “You don’t get invited to the White House for
building a clock.”

As is probably apparent, CJ is not the average teenager. He is
not the average YouTube sensation. And he is not the average
conservative. He’s just a really passionate young man who really
thinks that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex) should be president.

And, of course, CJ is African American — indeed, the national
chairman of Teens for Ted, a national group backing a candidate
who enjoys only marginal support among black voters.

“I strongly believe that Senator Cruz is truly what America
needs to make America the shining city on a hill it once was,”
CJ wrote in an e-mail to The Washington Post, saying Cruz would
challenge the “Washington cartel.” “To allude to the Hunger
Games, he’s the face of the rebellion. Being a teenager, I am
definitely a big fan of that haha!”

CJ’s video missives have had him in the news at least since he
was 12. He said he was suspended from Facebook after making
another video critical of Obama. (Facebook said children under
13 are not permitted to have accounts, which CJ called “complete
malarkey.”) And earlier this year, he reportedly sued a liberal
activist he claimed threatened him.

His videos have gone viral in conservative circles, where
commentators and media accounts again and again cite CJ’s race.

“It isn’t everyday you see a 12 year old black kid articulately
advocating for conservative principles on the internet,” wrote
one commentator on the conservative Web site Redstate.com.
CJ also reports getting criticized for his positions on account
of his race. “I was completely appalled to receive a message on
Twitter saying that it’s ‘not okay for blacks to support Ted
Cruz’ and that if I do, I’m a ‘self hating Uncle Tom’ ” he
recently wrote. According to this particular gentlemen, it’s not
okay for blacks to hold different political views. It’s not okay
for blacks to think for themselves.”

CJ gets attention.

“The Internet allows really anyone to have a voice and build a
following, and CJ is a great example,” Cruz campaign spokesman
Rick Tyler told the Dallas Morning News. “He can make a real
difference. He’s kind of the model that we want others to
follow.”

CJ lives in Grovetown with his grandparents — though he says his
parents are “actively involved.” His grandfather, he said, is a
retired First Sergeant of the Army who works at the Department
of Energy. Coming from a military family is what inspired CJ to
go into politics in the first place.

This was in 2008, when he was in second grade.

“Senator McCain’s life story resonated with me and I was honored
to support a man who was willing to give it all up, including
his life, while serving his country in the Vietnam War,” he
wrote.

CJ pointed YouTube rants against, among many other targets, gun
control, Hillary Clinton and George Takei, are issued when he’s
not doing time in the eighth grade at Columbia Middle School. He
wasn’t the only one on the right criticizing the invite Obama
extended to clock-maker Ahmed Mohamed. Bristol Palin, for
example, got in on the act. So did Pamela Geller — she of the
“prophet Muhammad cartoon contest.”

“This whole thing smells like a setup,” Geller wrote at
Breitbart. “With ISIS in America, and young moderate Muslims
fleeing to Syria to join the terror group, the response of
MacArthur High School officials was rational and reasonable.”

But CJ was perhaps the youngest to criticize Obama’s invitation
— and almost certainly the only one who appeared on Fox News
before he was a teenager.

“I think I’m one of the few voices who has taken such a public
stand condemning this decision, but I do believe many people
agree with the sentiment I expressed in my video,” Pearson
wrote. “Ahmed is being used as a political prop, and to be quite
frank, it’s quite disgusting. It’s even more disgusting that
he’s enjoying it.”

This point raised an uncomfortable comparison. If Ahmed — a
young man of color embraced by the White House for its own
reasons — is a political prop, isn’t CJ?

“Not at all,” CJ wrote. “At the end of the day, I’m not beholden
to the Republican Party. They don’t own me and they never will.
My political involvement is based on fighting for the
conservative principles I believe in and fighting for the future
of my generation.”

He added: “I’m not in it for the fame. I’m not in it for the
fortune. I’m involved in politics because I strongly believe my
generation deserves a voice.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/18/ted- cruz-ninja-is-13-black-and-just-shredded-obama-on-muslim-clock- boy/?tid=pm_pop_b

 

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