Vernon Jones

“I realized I made some mistakes in the past and I've learned from them.”

“I've been entrenched in the community.”

“As a proud graduate of North Carolina Central University, I know how important of a springboard HBCUs are to young black men and women working hard to achieve their own American dreams.”

“Kemp abandoned Georgia's conservatives.”

“The older Democratic party focused on equality of opportunity, economic growth and targeted tax cuts.”

“A lot of politicians, both Democrats and some Republicans, are interested in going to Washington, D.C. to be a part of the permanent D.C. political class that thumbs its nose at the rest of the country.”

“My fellow Black Americans are expected to fit a certain mold and think a certain way. We've been socially conditioned to blindly support the Democratic Party, never straying from the mental plantation they've had us on for more than a half century.”

“I was elected in Georgia as a Democrat in three separate decades. I don't support Donald Trump because I've changed my ideas on what's important; I support him precisely because I have not changed.”

“We haven't had a president like Trump in my lifetime as far as I'm concerned. He does what he says he's going to do.”

“I believe and stand for equality of every citizen, regardless of their race, party, gender or orientation.”

“I cannot stand for the defunding of the police, higher taxes on working families and job-killing socialist policies that will devastate Americans of all walks of life.”

“I'm Black from cradle to grave.”