As reported by The Free Press on Oct. 18, support for Kamala Harris among Black American Males has sunk to 73%. While one might think this would please the country’s Democrats, Joe Biden captured 87% of their vote in the 2020 election. Barack Obama’s recent explanation for this discrepancy is interesting.
Some Black Males, he suggests, are no doubt attracted by Donald Trump’s skill at “putting women down.” Unconsciously misogynistic, they simply don’t want to vote for a woman. His interpretation of Kamala’s declining numbers is a wonderful example of the superficiality of Identity Politics. Unwilling to admit that they may be a result of the fatuousness of her performance as Vice President on issues such as immigration, he eliminates actual substance from his narrative by attributing the vilest of motives to those who disagree with him. That he implies 27% of Black Males to be misogynistic jerks is remarkable. Imagine the outrage amongst the “woke” Left had a White Male made the same charge!
Obama seems an intelligent man and most people revere him as such. But he is clearly not above the gross stereotyping that is an innate aspect of the Left’s militarization of Identity Politics. Should any White person criticize the ideas or behavior of a person of Color, he/she is of course just another Racist. Should any non-Muslim criticize some of the deplorable aspects of Islamic orthodoxy, he/she is of course just another Islamophobe. It is a strategy that conveniently sidesteps any rational discussion of the issues at hand. It is the sleazy strategy used by Obama to suggest that Black Men unwilling to vote for Kamala are probably closet misogynists! Some might exonerate him, of course, inasmuch as he is critical of people of his own color. But the fact is, he simply trumps the Race card with the Gender card!
The hitherto unmentioned irony of this subject is that a significant number of the Black Men still willing to vote for Kamala are no doubt responding to the color of her skin. They are, in other words, equally guilty with Obama of letting superficial matters of Identity rather than the quality of her ideas govern their willingness to vote for her. Such is the poisoned state of contemporary Western Culture and it is entirely the fault of the Neo-Marxist Left which simplistically divides the world into the Powerful and their Victims, while utterly ignoring the impact of intelligence, integrity, biology, etc. on the complexities of the Human Dynamic.