Guest Editorial: Black men to the KHive
Vice President Kamala Harris Credit: Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson Black men, don’t be bamboozled: Don’t go for the fake from the Trump team, because 12% of you voted for him in 2020. Trump’s campaigning on gold sneakers to you and saying that immigrants are taking your jobs are a false promise and … Continued The post Guest Editorial: Black men to the KHive appeared first on New Pittsburgh Courier.
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Vice President Kamala Harris Credit: Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson
Black men, don’t be bamboozled: Don’t go for the fake from the Trump team, because 12% of you voted for him in 2020. Trump’s campaigning on gold sneakers to you and saying that immigrants are taking your jobs are a false promise and an unproven claim. And even if the promise of gold sneakers proves true, then you shouldn’t be bought off so cheaply, as if there is a price and merchandise equivalent to the cost of your vote and freedom.
Some folks are making the case that standing behind Kamala Harris is a sign of weakness, but nothing could be further from the truth. Don’t go for the okey-doke promulgated in 1972 when Rep. Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman to seek the highest office in the land. Remember that Shirley was a candidate in 12 primaries and earned 152 delegates (or 10%), notwithstanding an underfinanced campaign and the negativity from the predominantly male Congressional Black Caucus.
Black women, even when the call went out for Black men in 1995 for the Million Man March, you were there to answer the march’s purpose of unifying the Black family.
What Trump is seeking is a division in the Black community—the notion that Black men are for him and not for the Harris/Walz team. We don’t have to do a deep dive into the reason to reject Trump. He allegedly referred to Kamala as a “b—-.” If Trump can shape his nasty mouth to refer to her in such a derogatory way, it’s not hard to imagine how, in the deepest recesses of his heart, he feels about you.
In short, our appeal not only demands that you reject the idea that you are less inclined to vote for a Black woman as a sign of weakness, but declares that it is a sign of strength and commitment to join the KHive—the Kamala Harris/Tim Walz team—and deny Trump’s march toward a dictatorship.
Reprinted from the New York Amsterdam News
Editor’s Note: #KHive is the hashtag used by an informal online community supporting Kamala Harris, the 49th vice president of the United States and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee.
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