Black men will deliver Donald Trump to the White House in November. In any other year, this statement would have been written off as wishful thinking at best and wholly delusional at worst. But from where I stand today - as a 21 year old young black man reared in the Deep South of Georgia - I see it as all but inevitable. Go to any black church or patronize any black barbershop and the feeling is palpable. Black men are tired of being used and abused by a political party that doesn’t give a damn about them. Black men are tired of being treated as second-class citizens - in a country that their ancestors inarguably helped build - by a Democrat Party that would rather roll out the welcome mat to illegal aliens spilling across our border than deliver for the everyday Americans who live within it.
Black men are tired of dutifully doing what they’ve been told.
Because after decades of supporting the Democrat Party - in damn near unanimity, we have begun to ask ourselves and rightfully so: what the hell do we have to show for it?
And what I share with you today aren’t just isolated occurrences or cherry-picked conversations I’ve had with members of my community; they’re emblematic of a broader shift in sentiment among black Americans all throughout America. And I have the numbers to back it up.
According to a recent report by the Center for Politics at The University of Virginia, American political scientist and author Alan Abramowitz reported that recent polling from six independent pollsters - Quinnipiac, NYT/Siena, CBS/YouGov, Daily Kos, The Economist, and Yahoo - showed a “breakthrough for Trump”. Abramowitz writes, “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. 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.
And these numbers shouldn’t come as a surprise. Under President Biden, our community has felt the brunt of runaway inflation, record high gas prices, and the destruction that progressive policies have waged on urban cities all throughout America. Eighty percent of Black voters have a negative view of the current economic conditions And while a recent study by the Dallas Federal Reserve reports that Bidenflation is disproportionately hurting Black households, with 53.7 percent of Black Americans stressed by high inflation compared to just 43.6 percent of white Americans, wages for black families in Biden’s America have failed to keep up.
It was hell of a lot easier to be black in Donald Trump’s America, where the black unemployment rate reached its lowest point in history, the median income of black households was on the rise, and the poverty rate for blacks fell to an all-time record low as reported by USA Today.
But instead of trying to win back black voters with policy, the Democrats have resorted back to their tried and tired methods of pandering and fear-mongering as shown by Vice President Kamala Harris’s recent appearance at the BET Awards, where she awkwardly remarked that she’s been “out in these streets” (the Vice President lives at the Naval Observatory and enjoys Secret Service protection) and warned of the imaginary and supposed dangers of Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda developed by the Heritage Foundation - entirely independent of President Trump and his campaign.
But they wouldn’t lie if they weren’t worried. And If I were them, I’d be worried too.