Obama disagrees with the simple, powerful placards that black males held overhead during the Civil Rights Movement. They read: “I AM A MAN.”
To Obama, black men cannot decide whom to support for president. In his mind, we are mere boys. Male, yes, but insufficiently mature to choose America’s commander-in-chief. Instead, we should shut up and await Obama’s instructions.
“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,” Obama hectored a group of black males in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Thursday. The low-key support for Kamala Harris, Obama chided them, “seems to be more pronounced with the brothers.”
“You’re thinking about sitting out or supporting somebody [Donald J. Trump] who has a history of denigrating you, because you think that’s a sign of strength, because that’s what being a man is? Putting women down?” Obama condescended. “That’s not acceptable.”
Former President Barack Obama hectors black men (ABC News/YouTube)
Obama’s revolting statements were as insulting as Biden’s notorious remarks to radio host Charlamagne the God in May 2020: “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
As if stripping black men of our moral agency were not bad enough, Obama accused pro-Trump black men of being misogynists.
“You’re coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses, I’ve got a problem with that,” Obama scolded. “Because part of it makes me think — and I’m speaking to men directly — 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.”
Sick!
If the only reason that black men support Trump is because we hate women and would put only a man in the Oval Office, then how does Obama explain the exit polls that found Trump’s support among black men rise from 13 percent in 2016 to 19 percent in 2020? That 46.15 percent increase in Trump’s black-male vote occurred when the choices were Trump or Joe Biden — another man. Obama should look into this basic fact: Misogyny does not apply when the Democrat and the Republican nominees are both men.
Indeed, before Kamala’s koup d’etat shoved Biden down Air Force One’s staircase and out of the race, the distinctly male president of the United States won 14.3 million votes to become the Democrat standard-bearer, versus zero votes for Kamala. Five months earlier, with no woman in the race, Trump earned 19 percent of black men versus 79 percent for Biden, in a Feb. 21 Quinnipiac survey. Trump matched his 19 percent of 2020’s black-male vote. A March 2 Sienna College poll gave Trump 23 percent of black male ballots (versus 66 percent for Biden). The next day, a CBS/You Gov study also showed Trump convincing 23 percent of black men compared to 76 percent for Biden.
“On average, Donald Trump received 18% of the vote from Black voters who expressed a preference for either Trump or Biden in the six national polls,” the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics concluded on March 27. Its scholars reviewed a half-dozen relevant studies of black men and women — four months before any female Democrat presidential candidate was around for black men to dismiss. “If that result were to hold up in November, it would represent by far the highest level of Black support for a Republican presidential candidate in the past 60 years.”
Obama has infantilized black men as little boys incapable of choosing between candidates. He baselessly tarred us as women-haters. And Obama ignored the concerns of black men who reject the Tax Queen’s plans to hike levies by $5 trillion, strangle the economy in mandates and red tape, and project even deadlier weakness abroad.
Obama did not spend a minute wondering if black men might like Trump’s proposals for no taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime, and no taxes on Social Security benefits. Millions of black men understand that renewing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will revive the economy in general and our finances in particular. Black men recognize that a 15 percent corporate tax for companies that manufacture in America (down from 21 percent) means economic growth at home and jobs, jobs, jobs for those who seek more and better employment prospects.
While Obama might hate this fact, black men also can ask ourselves this campaign’s key question: “Are you better off under Kamala than you were under Trump?”
Most black men remember that our lives were more prosperous and peaceful under the leadership of the man whose policies yielded robust economic output, record-low black unemployment and poverty, decreasing income inequality among rising real wages, four Middle East peace agreements, and zero new wars (a first in 40 years): Donald J. Trump.
Obama is too blinded by his left-wing ideology to see this.
Rather than lead black men, Obama humiliates us. He should stop the lectures and leave us alone to pick whomever we individually want as the next president of the United States.
These votes are ours, not his.
Obama should meditate on an expression I often heard at my 90 percent black elementary school in Los Angeles. To paraphrase that admonition: “We ain’t yo’ slaves, bitch!”
Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News Contributor.
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