http://www.alternet.org/story/23600/
The man is Charles Evers, the younger brother of Medgar Evers, the civil rights activist killed in the 1960's. He went on to become the first black mayor elected in the Mississippi since the Reconstruction.
And he's a longstanding and party-loyal member of the Republican party.
For more on what's going on here, check out the interview. It's actually not the "identification with the aggressor" that I expected.
I have nothing against the Democratic Party. When I became mayor, I had to run as an independent because the Democrats wouldn't allow us to run as a Democrat back in those days. But once we broke the Democrats down and took over the seat, I was a national committee member, went to Chicago and took the Party away from the old Democrats. And what did they do? They ran to the Republican Party. So my thinking was, once we got blacks into the Democratic Party, let's do the same in the Republican Party and make damn sure they don't get away with nothin'.