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[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
In 2020, Biden snapped to the host of a black radio show, “Well I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
The host had wanted him to stay and answer more questions and Biden curtly dismissed the idea that there were any more questions to ask. Any black person who didn’t already support him wasn’t black. But, according to Biden, it turns out most black people may not be black.
Reuters notes that according to its recent poll, “18% of black Americans would pick Trump over Biden in a hypothetical matchup, compared to 46% who favored Biden, including about one in four black men, compared to about one in seven black women.”
Biden couldn’t even get a majority of black voters in his corner.
That 18% is up from 8% in 2016 and 12% in 2020 which is a fantastic rate of growth. At that rate, a Republican presidential candidate could be winning a quarter of the black vote in 2028.
During the 2022 midterms, the Republican share of the black vote similarly rose from 8% to 14%. Even running black candidates and accusing Republicans of racism didn’t necessarily help the Democrats. Gov. Kemp doubled his share of black voters against Stacey Abrams.
What happened? Republicans have begun making serious investments in the black community. And a miserable ‘Bidenomics’ economy has hit black people, who tend to earn less and are more likely to live from paycheck to paycheck, harder. While white liberal elites can dismiss sharp increases in the price of milk, bread or gas, black voters are much less likely to do so.
But Democrats fundamentally have a ‘Blackinx’ problem.
Latinx has become a symbol of the gulf between ordinary Latinos and a leftist elite obsessed with sexual identity politics. A more subtler ‘Blackinx’ problem has emerged as the Biden administration has embraced the culture war, fighting over transgender issues and abortion, rather than talking about the kitchen table issues that working class people care about.
A new black activist class that came from colleges rather than communities had revamped the focus in Washington D.C. away from the traditional social welfare priorities to niche identity politics issues and calls for dismantling law enforcement and the justice system.
Typical of this was Black Lives Matter whose calls to defund the police were embraced by Democrats only to realize that implementing even limited versions of the proposals led to skyrocketing crime and that strong majorities of black voters were fiercely opposed to them.
While the Biden campaign quickly jettisoned police defunding, it stuck to other elements of the blackinx agenda, including tying black civil rights activism to the LGBTQ movement and promoting abortion, that many black voters were not especially comfortable with. Black activists, many of them funded by major leftist foundations, including those of George Soros, were being financed to win elections and swing southern states. Georgia became a major hub for these efforts with the Democrats scoring big wins by securing its Senate seats and suffering major losses. But while election strategies enthused D.C. Democrats, they left black voters cold.
Black voters see an activist class that is either out of touch with the community or has sold out. All of this might be bad enough if they weren’t also coping with a horrendous economy while their economic concerns are dismissed or mushed up into dogma about systemic racism because acknowledging the misery might undermine Biden’s reelection prospects.
Democrats and their media keep wondering why they’re losing black voters. Articles like “Why Joe Biden Is Bleeding Black Support” (New York Magazine), “Democrats Fear Loss of Black Loyalty” (Washington Post) and “Falling Black Support for Biden Has Democrats Worried” (Time) consistently misdiagnose the problem by urging Dems to double down on blackinxing.
Blackinx, like Latinx and its white counterparts, reflect a political elite that has lost touch with working class voters. After losing the white working class and developing a shaky relationship with Latino voters, Democrats hoped to build a wall of black voters. But while the problem has taken longer to arrive with black voters, it has been slowly building up to a crisis.
Democrats catastrophically lost white non-college voters, especially white men, 71% of whom voted for Trump in 2016 and 66% of whom voted for him in 2020, and are on the verge of losing non-college Latino voters who backed Biden by only 55 to 41 over Trump, and have also begun bleeding black men and the problem is starting to get big enough to affect the big picture.
After years of talking to black voters almost exclusively about “voting rights” and “criminal justice reform”, Democrats are wondering why these preoccupations of the D.C. activist class aren’t generating meaningful black support. Black voters see Democrats passionately rallying to the cause of drag shows and abortion, but don’t see that conviction when it comes to black issues.
Black communities are being torn apart by massive crime waves and economic misery are not especially interested in redistricting battles and transgender books in schools yet this is what Democrats talk about, especially in the South, rather than anything black voters care about.
There is a long tradition of Democrats paying attention to black voters only during election season, but with the arrival of blackinx, they’ve lost the ability to talk to black voters. The old grifting reverends like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were seen by many in the black community as clowns yet they were still seen as coming out of the community, but the same cannot be said of a new black political elite, whose most prominent representative was Barack Obama and now Kamala Harris, who don’t share goals, values or even a common language.
Ordinary black voters think Kamala Harris represents them about as much as white working class voters feel represented by Beto O’Rourke. Biden was half right when he said, “if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” Apart from his mythical days marching in Selma and wrestling with Corn Pop, Biden is surrounded by black staffers, aides and allies who are representative of a D.C. political elite, not black people.
Biden, like a lot of Democrats, has come to mistake blackinx for black. His idea of black people consists of black female party operatives who, like their white and Asian peers, embrace trendy causes, cry at DEI sessions and base their entire identity around pop leftist politics. This small blackinx elite, the graduates of gender studies and black studies programs at top colleges, who went on to corporate and then party positions, don’t speak for the larger black electorate.
And Biden has come to believe that the larger black electorate isn’t really black.
Blackinx, like Latinx, is a real phenomenon, but it’s in the single digits and represents little more than a small number of academic, entertainment and political spaces, not the black community.
Biden will win the blackinx voter but he may be shakier when it comes to the black vote. And he is facing the possibility of having to declare that most black people are not black.
To paraphrase proto-dyke Gloria Steinem, another geriatric Democ-rat, black people need Joe Bite-Me like a fish needs a bicycle
Daniel,
Tell us something we don’t know. You’re either with us, or you’re the enemy.
It’s certainly encouraging to see many blacks waking up from their slumber on the democratic plantation, but that’s hardly “most”. Most are content, based on all outward appearances, to reside there.
In places like California where crime has been decriminalized, in Chicago where black on black murders are blamed on systemic racism, In New York City where a revolving door injustice system allows for rape in the street in “broadway” light, in Philadelphia where they scream about inner city crime and filth but continue to elect the same people, etc, etc.
When you incentivize negative behavior, as Democrats most assuredly have for decades in an attempt to buy the black voting block wholesale, it takes a person with grit to pull themselves out of that…and bravo to those that do.
I may be skewing things; but I‘ve always felt that Obama created/fabricated a born again race issue to manipulate black Americans into thinking that they are victimized and persecuted – just like, oh, the Palestinians. Forging the Black-Palestinian connection. Forging dual hatred against America and against Israel.
This is not something MLK, the black Moses of his time, would have supported. His voice is incompatible with Obama’s. But Obama’s voice is not incompatible with Farrakhan’s and Wright’s hate filled agenda clear voices. These three voices scream in absolute unison.
BLM is not about civil rights. BLM is PLM.
Why?
Blacks in America are the first significant group of Americans that Obama targeted. He could most easily influence ‘his’ people to hate America and Israel.
With American blacks turning against America and Israel under his belt, Obama established and has nurtured, while wearing a transparent Biden mask, this ever widening base of hatred that is necessary for him to fulfill his obsession to destroy Israel, by way of destroying the US first.
However, as black Americans realize this strategy, that BLM and CRT have nothing to do with being black; that blacks are being used for a despicable treasonous purpose, and that these concocted movements, instead of elevating black citizens, relegate them to a sub-citizen, ‘refugee’ like ‘status’, they will push back.
And they can push back big. Within and without the government. Top to bottom. Bottom to top. Clean up the scum. Root out the weeds.
That would be fitting justice when the very people Obama so deceptively recruited for his evil plan are those who will destroy him.
Also, open borders hurts black Americans the worst, and the immigrants take all the jobs that blacks used to do, take the welfare that blacks used to be the main intended beneficiaries of, etc.
The 1619 project tries to make black Americans the main focus of American history and politics, but blacks are becoming a vanishing minority, drowning in the much larger flood of immigrants, who could care less about black issues.
Blacks are like trannies. People are getting sick of them and they don’t matter as much as white leftist-wing racists and black racists think they do. I know I’m sick of seeing them in nine out of ten TV commercials and hearing about what a racist I supposedly am.
Except the women who work for my apartment building’s security force. Every single one of them is black and hot and from African countries and they just keep coming. Whoever does the hiring for that company sure knows what he or she’s doing.
That’s exactly what Obama did. I’ve said that for years. In fact, I said he was going to do that before he did it- that was 2008. But he has created or re-created Frankenstein. NYC is on the verge of collapse, but BO can blame his puppet, Biden.
Biden is a slave to his racist master Hussein Obama.
His master’s racist supremacy reveals itself when he appeals to black people’s race.
Yeah, maybe, but if what the column says is true, how does one explain the Chicago mayoral election results?
“And he is facing the possibility of having to declare that most black people are not black.”
Sure, in 2066 if things keep going the way they are. You do remember that you said at the top of the article that Republicans getting a quarter of the Black vote would be a huge accomplishment, right?
How come three quarters of Black voters will still vote for Biden (worst case scenario for the Dems) if the “Liberal white elites hae lost touch with Black communities”???
Classic Greenfield nonesense.
Would it be a safe bet that you aren’t really black?
Mickorn = Mickows?
Sounds like it. Thanks Sid!
if a troll changes his name, is he a new troll or just a typo troll?
It’s the Mister Potato Head™ concept of public participation.
Left-wing whites have never been in touch with black “communities,” Dickblow. As if all blacks share the same brain and think the same. You lefties are racist as F and yet you all fancy yourselves as virtuous.
CONGRATS TO THEM………..
Most people realize when their livelihood has been destroyed. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out when people struggle to make ends meet in an economy that has been deliberately whittled down they are not going to be loyal to those who made promises to them, and didn’t keep their word. It was all about votes, and control, and millions are figuring that out. Well by their fruits you shall know them!
The left has always tied self-interest to racial justice. Handing out welfare is an example. That welfare destroyed the black family and judging by the new black skepticism, many blacks know it. Biden’s racial Three Card Monte is easy to spot and an insult to black intelligence. They see that their situation is getting worse, not better, and they also see that many whites are trying to stop the bloodbath that Biden and his anti-police policies have caused in black neighborhoods.
It’s one thing to talk the talk and quite another to walk the walk. Biden has made life for blacks worse, just like he has for everyone else. He assumes blacks are too stupid to see the truth because he is too stupid to do anything but lie.
Obama is the conman.
We were the marks.
It was a variation of the Badger Game that took in millions. Many of the millions still don’t understand what suckers they are. That’s the mark of a great conman.
And Democrats still walk away with election “victories”.
FWIW, Mark Elias is back on the job, tracking down state election weaknesses, in order to orchestrate 2024 election irregularities.
Some, but not nearly enough, Black people have come out of their comas to realize the Democrats have been their impediment to a better life, keeping them barefoot and pregnant on the plantation. .
Go back earlier in Joes career and see what he has to say about Delaware not joining the Confederacy.
Bigot Biden has always been an anti-black racist even though he sucks up to them every chance he gets. He’s despicable.
MEGA DITTOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My American brothers and sisters have always been welcome. Race never had anything to do with it & we all know it.
written by Carol Swain, professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University for Prager University:
“Since its founding in 1829, the Democratic Party has fought against every major civil rights initiative, and has a long history of discrimination. The Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, opposed Reconstruction, founded the Ku Klux Klan, imposed segregation, perpetrated lynchings, and fought against the civil rights acts of the 1950s and 1960s. In contrast, the Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an anti-slavery party. Its mission was to stop the spread of slavery into the new western territories with the aim of abolishing it entirely. This effort, however, was dealt a major blow by the Supreme Court. In the 1857 case Dred Scott v. Sandford, the court ruled that slaves aren’t citizens; they’re property. The seven justices who voted in favor of slavery? All Democrats. The two justices who dissented? Both Republicans. The slavery question was, of course, ultimately resolved by a bloody civil war. The commander- in-chief during that war was the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln – the man who freed the slaves. Six days after the Confederate army surrendered, John Wilkes Booth, a Democrat, assassinated President Lincoln. Lincoln’s vice president, a Democrat named Andrew Johnson, assumed the presidency. But Johnson adamantly opposed Lincoln’s plan to integrate the newly freed slaves into the South’s economic and social order. Johnson and the Democratic Party were unified in their opposition to the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery; the 14th Amendment, which gave blacks citizenship; and the 15th Amendment, which gave blacks the vote. All three passed only because of universal Republican support. During the era of Reconstruction, federal troops stationed in the south helped secure rights for the newly freed slaves. Hundreds of black men were elected to southern state legislatures as Republicans, and 22 black Republicans served in the US Congress by 1900. The Democrats did not elect a black man to Congress until 1935. But after Reconstruction ended, when the federal troops went home, Democrats roared back into power in the South. They quickly reestablished white supremacy across the region with measures like black codes – laws that restricted the ability of blacks to own property and run businesses. And they imposed poll taxes and literacy tests, used to subvert the black citizen’s right to vote.
The DemonRats have “ABUSED”The Black Vote since”The Great Society”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!