The racism is baked right into the title of the thread. Not all that hard to figure out.
Originally Posted by txdot-guy
Yet where did said racism come from?
I think that is the point of the OP question.
First things first; I think the going ghetto date may have begun around or after mid-October of last year. I also think it is essentially pandering, more than anything. Yet, it is also likely to be a strategically lame attempt to get the Brutha's back on the plantation, so to speak. I mean, who would they better respond to? A hottie gal or some old dude with a "questionable" preference?
Obama’s Advice to Black Men Ignores a Deeper Problem for Democrats
With less than a month to go until Election Day, Democrats are scrambling to persuade Black men to cast their ballots for Kamala Harris amid polls showing Donald Trump gaining momentum among Black voters. This week alone, the vice president’s campaign introduced the “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men,” a set of policy proposals that marked the Harris campaign’s most overt attempt at appealing to Black men yet.
So it landed as somewhat of a surprise, or at least a risk, that Barack Obama, ahead of his first campaign appearance for Harris last week, chose to blame sexist attitudes among Black men for any reluctance they may have in backing Harris. “Y’all know some of those brothers,” Obama said, quickly drawing backlash. “Demeaning,” is how the “Black Men for Trump Advisory Board” described it.
But it wasn’t just pro-Trump voters who found Obama’s remarks problematic. Plenty of Democrats took issue with what they saw as unfair scolding, including former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner.
“I was disappointed that the former president would talk to Black men like that, especially given the statistics showing that Black men are the second largest voting bloc in the Democratic Party,” Turner, who is Black, told me in a phone interview. She added: “In a representative democracy, people have the right, even Black men, to vote with their conscience.”...
Imma thunk'n they had to slap a tourniquet on a hemorrhaging wound - STAT, where they were losing a whole-lotta previously reliable voting block.
Juss say'n; I would listen to (stare at mostly) Karoline Leavitt all day long and not even consider glancing at Ru Paul.