I do not disagree with that.
Many blacks did stay home.
I was just hoping to see more than a 1 percent increase overall.
But at the same time you were wanting Trump to
specifically appeal to white people. He did that with the racist "Eating the cats, eating the dogs" campaign angle. You got what you wanted. You want more black people voting Republican? You need to run someone like this:
Edit: And Donald Trump doesn't have a bad record when it comes to black people. Obama had taken millions of dollars earmarked for HBCUs and instead put it in the general education fund for everybody.
https://www.tmcf.org/events-media/t...lationship-between-hbcus-and-president-obama/
Trump restored the HBCU funding and then made it permanent.
https://apnews.com/article/c4834e48841d97c5a93312b1bf75302a
To be honest Obama was more of an anti-DEI president that you say that you want than Trump. He didn't do things for black people. There wasn't anything specific in the Affordable Care Act for black people. There was the "transgender healthcare" provision which is why Trump was able to trip Kamala Harris up about federal funding for trans illegal immigrant inmates. But I digress.
Biden and Harris took money meant for COVID relief and instead encouraged states and cities to spend billions of it on police.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politi...the-american-rescue-plan-and-community-safety
And yet Kamala Harris had talked about "defund the police."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/26/poli...d-the-police-movement-in-june-2020/index.html
And she and fellow Democrats had fillibustered police reform that Trump likely would have signed.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/politics/senate-police-reform-bill/index.html
Bill Clinton and Joe Biden pushed through the racist Clinton / Biden / Gingrich crime bill which led to the drug setentcing disparties that Ron Paul talked about and Trump reversed that with the first step act. Even as late as 2023, Obama operative Van Jones (quietly) priased Trump for that.
https://www.politico.com/newsletter...ones-first-step-act-criminal-justice-00092125
And the whole "Platinum Plan" Trump put forward back in 2020 was the closed blacks have ever gotten to federal reparations. (Nazi companies like Ford and GM got reparations by the United States congress as a reward for committing treason against the United States in WW 2...but blacks who are still alive after the Tusla race riots can't get shyt.)
But was there any mention of the Plantium Plan in 2024? Nope. Did Trump campaign on the First Step Act in 2024? Nope. He did tell Patrick David Bet that he still thinks he did the right thing.
When Trump went to the National Black Journalist Association meeting (kudos for going) he didn't say anything specific about his past (pretty good) record for doing things that helped the black community specifically. Granted the first woman on the panel was really being a witch. (And feel free to change the spelling). The second woman was sincere and a real journalist, but I was disappointed that Trump didn't do anything but defend his asinine claim that police needed MORE immunity. The third woman was the black lady from Fox News about she and Trump basically had a friendly chat but no substance. Inteserstingly enough the first woman wore blue (Democratic colors), the Fox host wore red (Republican colors), and the woman in the middle, who was actually trying to get Trump to answer questions about black concerns, wore black. Coincidence? Maybe.
I really think that but for the George Floyd riots, Trump was poised to actually run a campaign aimed at making real inroads in the black community. So, what happened? Tucker Carlson. YouTube won't let me embed this video, but here's a link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n5_D59lSjc&rco=1
At 16 minutes in, Tucker criticizes the Trump administration for only talking about the tragedy of George Floyd's death and not talking about the not-so-peaceful protests. From that moment on, Trump went all in on "law and order" and "back the blue" rhetoric and nothing publicly about holding police accountable
even going so far as to tell a black woman to her face that he thinks police need MORE immunity.
So, Trump did what you wanted campaign wise and got the results you wanted. He got a majority of the white vote, male and female, despite white females showing by passing pro abortion referrendums that they are
still with the Democrats on that issue even while voting for Trump. And some blacks were like "Well...maybe we'll take a chance on another 4 years of Trump" and many more taking the [MENTION=40029]PAF[/MENTION] position of "Yeah....let's just not vote at all." I can tell you this. While millions of blacks didn't buy into the rhetoric of "Trump's going to put you back on the cotton plantation" fear mongering, whether they voted for Trump or just stayed home, many of the ones who
did vote for Kamala Harris are actually not in a good way mentally at the moment. It was a terrible campaign psychological warfare wise. And Trump and Harris tagged teamed on that.