Black men, please don’t get caught up in American misogyny and fall for FOX News and other media outlets’ total BS telling us, Black men, what we think and feel about our dear sister VP Kamala Harris.
As we get closer and closer to election day, they are going to pull out all the stops! Those that hate women and are especially fixated on their disdain for Black women are going to do all they can to appeal to us, Black men. You can bet that all those xenophobes are going to trot out disgruntled and insecure Black men to make their case as to why we should not support VP Harris.
I bet you as they try to sell us on her opponent, they’re not going to address the truth about this guy. Are they going to tell you brothers that this is the same guy who manufactured his neckties in China and used nonunion labor to build his hotels? Are they going to talk about this guy’s history of racial incitement?
Remember he took out a full-page ad in 1989 demanding the death penalty for five Black boys (you do know that one of those boys could have been your son) who were wrongfully convicted of raping a white woman in Central Park and to this day, he has NEVER apologized to those young men. Just like the election, he doubles down and pretends that they were guilty, just like he pretends he won an election.
This is the same guy that the FBI released 400 pages of an investigation where Black rental applicants were told at his properties that there were no apartments available, while white applicants were sent to those same apartments and were offered leases. I hope this conversation helps some of you “she really ain’t Black-Stockholm syndrome suffering-chain hugging negroes!”
Brothers, we can’t get caught up in everything we see and hear coming out in mainstream media. And you damn sure better be skeptical about everything you see on social media as it relates to Black men and this election. I’m not going to call it fake news; at it’s best, it’s just a difference in cultural understanding of what’s going on through their eyes.
Let me give you an example. I read the Los Angeles Times every day, and every Thursday, I read the Los Angeles Sentinel. I read the Times to find out what’s going on, and I read the Los Angeles Sentinel for the truth — through the eyes of my culture.
Here is a good example! Howard University did a survey of Black voters. Seven battleground states showed VP Harris leading Trump 82% to 12%. Another survey found Harris with a slightly smaller lead, including an August Pew poll showing a 77% – 13% lead at the national level.
A Suffolk University survey of Black voters in Pennsylvania conducted in August showing a 70% – 9% lead. While I respect Pew, I’m going with Howard University’s poll, just like I read the Times, I believe the Sentinel.
Black voter turnout in 2020 pushed Biden and Harris across the finish line in Pennsylvania and Georgia; which was also key in electing Raphael Warnock as its first African American senator. We did it once with a white man at the top of the ticket, I know we can do it with a sister at the top of the ticket! I need us to get on the phone and call all our brothers, sisters, family members and friends across this nation and encourage our people to get out and vote and support our sister!
Now I’m not naive, there are a few Negros that are just not going to get on board, hell I know one right here in L.A. He’s a die-hard Trump supporter, never mind the fact that he can’t vote because he’s not an American citizen. And this same negro has a major issue with migrants coming into the country (I wonder if he’s here legally?) yet he’s never applied for citizenship—go figure that! As usual, I digress.
We’ve also got to reach our young Black men between the ages of 18 and 49, for some reason they are VP Harris’s weakest link according to a Howard survey. Let’s talk with these young people and see what their issue is and work with them to support their and our sister.
I truly believe we will show up. I liken this to asking folks to RSVP. We tend to respond as we get closer to the event. Some are going to try and convince those in this country, and the world, that Black men are more misogynistic than any other culture—as if we created the movie, “Throw Mama from the Train”, who thinks of that? They are hoping that we will pay homage to Trump’s wealth rather than his worth as a human being.
All of Trump’s life, he’s only been an oppressor of the poor! For all of you believers who envy his wealth and cannot separate his inhumanity towards others, I can only say this, Proverbs 3:31 reads, “Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.” Let’s choose Kamala!
