More Pronounced With the Brothers
Kamala Harris thinks she’s in trouble with black men and has proceeded to pander accordingly. She called in the heavy reinforcements—former President Barack Obama—to vouch for her in Pittsburgh, where he said that distaste for Kamala Harris “seems to be more pronounced with the brothers,” which he attributed to sexism.
He doubled down later, when giving remarks at her campaign headquarters: “Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that,” said Obama, seemingly unable to imagine other reasons for opposing Harris.
“Recent polling from CBS News and the New York Times/Siena Poll suggests that, though the vice president is winning the majority of Black men, she is so far well behind the kinds of numbers the party drew in 2020 and 2016,” reports Politico. “The latter survey, which included an oversample of Black voters, found the support for Harris drew just 78 percent support—in past elections, Democrats have drawn 90 percent of Black voters.”
Team Harris is freaking out. They released a set of policy planks aimed at this demographic group—called the “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men“—which will “provid[e] 1 million loans that are fully forgivable to Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business.” The others is kind of a hilarious addition, because it’s obviously legally dubious to provide loans only to one demographic group, for being part of that demographic group, so this program will absolutely have to include other people as well, as it should.
Harris also says she’ll take care of black men by…legalizing weed and protecting their crypto assets, though it’s unclear what type of regulatory framework she favors or how the federal government will pull that off. (I did not realize liking weed and crypto was especially characteristic of black dudes.)
Kamala falling in the polls and doubling down on touting the endorsement of Dick Cheney and crypto/weed for black men? It’s like a parody of how a DC Dem sees voters.
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) October 15, 2024
All of it comes together to paint a bit of a dim portrait of black men. The thing that will alleviate crime and poverty in mostly black neighborhoods is…free market capitalism and being treated equally under the law and enforcing laws against violent crime and scaling back the misguided war on drugs. None of this is represented by Harris’ policy approach detailed here, which reads as pointless at best, condescending at worst.
But, again, Harris is pretty clearly in panic mode and trying to shore up support. In Detroit, she went on Charlamagne tha God’s show, “The Breakfast Club,” co-hosting a town hall with him.
“This is a margin-of-error race,” she said at the beginning of the interview. “It’s
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