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“If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”- Joe Biden on “The Breakfast Club,” 2020
“We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running.”- Barack Obama, last week.
The condescension inherent in these remarks is one reason why especially young Black men are moving away from the Democratic Party to which Blacks have been joined at the hip since the Franklin Roosevelt administration. This kind of tribal “group think” is designed to keep certain demographics in line and voting in perpetuity for Democrats.
Former President Obama, the only former president in my lifetime not to leave Washington after his administration ended (some believe he has been behaving as a third- term president behind the scenes of the Biden-Harris administration), has revealed by his comments there is much worry in the party that even a small departure of young Black voters could spell doom for Democrats in the coming election.
Obama is right to be concerned. According to the 2024 National Black Voter Project Longitudinal Study, a growing number of young Black voters are becoming more conservative than their Civil Rights-era parents and grandparents.
The survey shows that the highest percentage of Black conservatives, at 22.2 percent, are actually those between the ages of 18 to 29. The 30 to 44 age group makes up 18.9 percent, 45 to 64 are at 10.1 percent, and the oldest who are 65 and over come in at 4.3 percent.
Obama’s chiding of young Black men is not likely to sit well with them. That Democrats have taken the Black vote for granted is a given, but more are starting to ask “what have you done for us?”
When Obama won the presidency, I wrote that he could have a life- changing influence on African Americans by endorsing school choice. Black parents in especially inner cities like Chicago have told pollsters they want to send their children to better schools, but Democrats have ignored them because of the influence (and money) of the teacher’s unions.
African Americans have been disproportionately and negatively affected for decades by Democrat policies – from the welfare state, to failed public schools, high crime in their neighborhoods and the highest abortion rate of any demographic group. Many have said politicians care about their vote (and show up at Black churches) only in an election year and then never keep their promises.
It’s the same with “women’s issues.” The very term implies that all women think – or should think – alike, especially when it comes to abortion. Contrary views are ignored or mocked by the major media. This, too, is condescension and a form of misogyny.
If Republicans can solidify even a small percentage of young Black voters, they will have secured for themselves victories up and down the ballot in this election and possibly for many elections to come. This assumes they will follow through on their promises, especially on the economy and education.
One possible line Republicans might use is “why are Democrats pro-choice when it comes to abortion, but anti-choice for educating children who are born?”
Another is a quote from the African-American economist Thomas Sowell: “Barack Obama’s political genius is his ability to say things that will sound good to people who have not followed the issues in any detail – regardless of how obviously fraudulent what he says may be to those who have.”
Obama throws a stone Life Saver to a drowning man?!
“They all look alike to me” :: “Looks are superficial”
“They all think alike” :: ❓
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Racism has done a U-turn in my lifetime.
It is telling that Kamala’s campaign chose a misandric male whose so called “Affordable Health Care Act” increased the premiums paid by the least served population (males under age 30) by over 50% to order to subsidize women to hector black men for even thinking of NOT voting for Kamala. Obama also made the already toxic hostility toward males in academia (men now constitute less than 40% of university admissions) by having Eric Holder issue his infamous “Dear Educator” letter threatening to withhold Title IX funding to universities unless they established Star Chambers to adjudicate ALLEGATIONS of sexual harassment which eliminated due process. Obama has expressed a belief in female supremacy that rivals Mary Daly or Andrea Dworkin:: “If you look at the world and look at the problems it’s usually old people, usually old men, not getting out of the way,”
“Now women, I just want you to know; you are not perfect, but what I can say pretty indisputably is that you’re better than us [men].”
“I’m absolutely confident that for two years if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see a significant improvement across the board on just about everything… living standards and outcomes.”
For Obama, if you are black, Muslim and gay, why would you waste your time on mundane stuff like endorsing school choice, women’s issues, the economy and all the things that might make lives better.
After all, when there is a progressive narrative and a self indulgent fundamental transformation of the country to nail down, it’s the leftism, the endless lies, and the destruction of the country that takes precedence.
If Trump wins the grifter era of Obama/Clinton/Biden will finally be in the rear view mirror.
addendum: For Obama, if you are black, a leftist, Muslim and gay…
And you have to spend so much time pretending to be a normal American, until the wheels come off the wagon, as they have finally done.
And if he doesn’t (because the Dems get away with cheating YET AGAIN!) the US is finished!!! 😯😢
The Kenyan is yesterday’s news.
Obama is going to rescue us from the mess he created, what a joke.
I’m beginning to wonder if Obama and other assorted race hucksters understand who black Americans actually are. The Dems’ politically provocative rhetoric tells me that they do not. In my own conversations, blacks are mostly ordinary folks with some unique ethnic roots just like every other ethnic group that comprises our American melting pot. Yet the Left loves to preach some kind of contrived diversity that has no resemblance to the real thing. In a word, bogus.
The liberal “hive mind” is a miraculous. destructive world view leading to a dead end life. Only the Queens and Kings of the hive thrive.
The leftist “hive mind” is being exposed for the Marxist world view it espouses.
Obama the snake oil salesman.:The most over rated irresponsible dangerous president in my lifetime. An America hating Muslim elected 7 years after the worst attack by a foreign country on the American mainland.. His endorsements were the kiss of death to,Democrats. A huge advocate for manmade global warming who bought not one but two beach front homes.Apologizes for American exceptionalism in a world tour. And Americans gave him a second term. Setting back race relations 60 years. He looks like a skinny old carnival barker..
The ONLY reason this loser has support of any kind if because his followers are dumb like a fence post…
Tell them what to do and they do it without asking questions.😏
It’s the reason they had to be freed by the Republican party…and the reason there was a war fought over it and many from both races died…
Still have not learned a thing about thinking for themselves.
The leftist ‘hive mind’ ? My concern is the illegal alien crowd that has been ‘salted’ in red jurisdictions. They weren’t flown there for cultural assimilation, were they?
Obama is the most tiring voice in America.
He had his eight years. He did his damage.
Please. Zip it.. Stay out. Enjoy your pension.
(If Obama believes he is so smart, then return to Chicago and help Brandon sort out the mess he created.)