I have seen enough of this on social media and here. Yes, Black turnout for Kamala could have been better in swing states and the 'higher' and the Black vote for Trump in many states is actually him getting less Black votes than 2020 but against lower turnout.
But tearing each other apart on who voted and trashing people who gave legitimate criticism of the Democratic Party and Kamala is missing the big point. America has been sliding into a dark place for a long time. Black people will all be affected regardless so acting like you have some virtue shield and position because you voted for Harris (and I did) is being solipsistic. She lost and we all will have to deal with it, united or divided.
The GOP started the slide into crazy land not in 2016 but in 1994 after the last sane GOP admin of George Bush Sr. in 1988-1992. Black progress, including affirmative action, has been challenged and retrenched since the 1970s. For all the gnashing of teeth about the recent court decisions, those of us old enough to remember the Ward Connerly era and the stage challenges are surprised affirmative action survived this long (really). What happened is GOP appointed judges followed the law and weren't radical enough until now.
Trump should have lost but double digits to Krusty the Klown much less Kamala and we can't ignore the MAGA folks in Congress and especially state and local races that have rapidly grown. Throwing a tantrum that Black folks can't maintain the enthusiasm and turnout of 2008 forever is acting like we have the power to hold back the tides of where this nation is turning is naive. We are 14% of the population and with non-replacement level fertility. The pressure of MAGA leaning Hispanics and Asians will just get greater. Let me not even start about the dumb gender warring about how some gender should be collectively rewarded or punished for their voting record despite both groups have hundreds of thousands that voted for Trump.
For this to not have occurred, one of three things would need to have happened:
1) The GOP would have to pivot to the center and sanity and bush its crazies--it didn't
2) The public would have had to let the GOP know open racism and embrace of extremism were deal breakers--lots of 'moderates' have shown they don't see it that way
3) The Democratic Party would have had to have been more focused and competent in governing and campaigning--stop acting like Kamala and the DNC ran some perfect race; granted that shouldn't have mattered given the stakes but claiming all is good and people were just prejudiced gets us nowhere in 2028.
None of these happened. Yeah, there are cultural issues like trans stuff which I don't agree with but there are ALWAYS cultural panics with the modern GOP. CRT just ran out of steam before this election.
The fact this election would have still been close even if Kamala won tells you there is a deeper problem here than Black people not going to vote enough. That problem was going to come to a head sooner or later and it seems now is the time.
Black folks need to discuss ways to make ourselves more immune to electoral fukkery, not lament our inability to sway every election in our interest. That's the only sustainable way going forward. The nice and normal America is going to be gone for a very long time.
when they get their karma. They want violence and barbarian measures, time to deliver it to them.
