Charles Evers, brother of slain Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers, has announced he’s endorsing Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
“I believe in him first of all because he’s a businessman,” Evers said to the Clarion-Ledger. “I think jobs are badly needed in Mississippi.”
Medgar Evers was a widely respected figure in the Civil Rights movement becoming a field secretary for the NAACP, and working dilligently to help integrate African-American students into Mississippi universities. Evers also worked on voting rights up until his assassination on June 12, 1963.
Although Charles Evers was also active in the movement–he was the first-black mayor of Mississippi post reconstruction–he became a Republican and endorsed Ronald Reagan in 1980.
“I haven’t seen any proof of him being a racist,” Evers said. “All of us have some racism in us, even me.”