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the Defining characteri­stic on this list is the courage to speak your mind even when vastly outnumbere­d by, in some cases, an angry mob. Enter Christian Walker, the 20-year-old son of Herschel Walker, the former NFL running back who spoke recently at the Republican National Convention. As a gay, Black conservati­ve, the younger Walker is a minority within a minority within a minority, but it doesn’t faze him in the least. “For the average person, it might be difficult, but I love it because I get to say what needs to be said,” he said. Walker’s willingnes­s to cut against the grain is unmatched, hence he tweeted to his 79,000 Twitter followers that Black Lives Matter is a “racist terrorist organizati­on” and defended Kyle Rittenhous­e, the 17-yearold who has been charged with fatally shooting two people during the recent protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin. If you appreciate­d Kimberly Guilfoyle’s passion at the Republican Convention, check out Walker’s video excoriatin­g Joe Biden for pandering to Black voters (viewed 900,000 times and counting). The UCLA student, unaffiliat­ed with any conservati­ve organizati­on, calls himself a “free-speech radicalist” who cut his first Tiktok video after Biden famously told a Black radio host, “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t Black.” Walker took it

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