LET ME DEAL WITH THIS CONVENIENT, SUPPOSED LOVE AFFAIR, BETWEEN TRUMP AND BLACK MEN
I’m sure by now, the world has heard how President-Elect Donald J. Trump has supposedly won over a high percentage of Black male supporters. The way I figure, however, this “Black men supporting Trump” notion, still remains more of a myth than fact. The myth is another fraudulent scheme from the devil.
This is not to say you will not find some confused Negro men supporting Trump. Remember, the “Negro” I am referring to, has no ties to Africa, Blackness, or self-knowledge, and was “Made in America.” Also remember, the 1863 passage of the Emancipation Proclamation, did not require the system to unlock the millions of Black minds systematically chained by the dehumanizing miseducation of Black degradation.
Fast-forward to 2024, according to data, Vice President Kamala Harris won 80 percent of the Black vote. Let’s be clear, that is a high percentage considering we are not a monolithic group. What pundits love to point to however is, that President Joe Biden, a White male, received 87 (nearly 90) percent of the Black vote when he ran against Trump in 2020. In 2024, Trump won 20 percent of the Black vote, a 7 percentage point increase over his last bid in 2020.
It is no secret, that in every race and nationality, there is a need to examine and further eradicate every level of patriarchy that seems to think male leadership, is ordained by God, when compared to that of a woman, no matter how evil, corrupt, or unfit, the male candidate may be. This is nothing new. This must be changed, but not exploited amongst Blacks and weaponized by White media, as a means of divide and conquer.
Overall, Black men do not, in any way, find commonality with White male criminals like Donald Trump for the sake of his long list of crimes. Associating the commonality of struggling Black men with Trump – a rich, White, fraudulent con man, pathological liar, and habitual felon/criminal, are offensive Black male stereotypes, and face-slapping foolery.
Blacks are in general, America’s most law-abiding citizens, even when “the law” turns against our lawful need to peacefully exist. All of the oppressive slave masters, Confederacy sympathizers, domestic terrorists, land-takers, and KKKmen were criminals, just like Trump.
The criminal instincts of the oppressor did not put their hearts any closer to loving Black people, nor did the Black men they oppressed to make their Black victims of oppression feel as if they were common brothers in crime. In fact the opposite is true. They burned our churches as we looked to God in prayer; they slapped our faces as we “turned the other cheek;” they raped our mothers as our mothers took care of their babies, cleaned their homes, and prepared their food.
Trump, in fact, is more the example of how rich White men can commit crime after crime, while poor Black men do the sentencing time. For example, Blacks make up only 12 percent of America’s population but consist of nearly 40 (38.9) percent of the prison population. Trump is the utmost epitome of White privilege, and his fool-based re-election epitomizes the extent to which White privilege is an endangerment to the entire family of humanity.
Therefore, today, Black men are more the example of the homemakers of mass incarceration; we are the victims of institutional racism’s systematic wealth deprivation and growth suppression, which by and large, produced a disproportionate inability for Black people in general, and Black men in particular, to afford a formidable legal defense when faced with false criminal allegations. In contrast, rich White men like Trump can afford a constant TEAM of lawyers.
In Trump’s case, in particular, he was still found guilty in 2 presidential impeachments, and guilty of 34 felony convictions, in 2023, because Trump is in fact GUILTY overwhelmingly, and dangerously GUILTY without remorse. This alone would have disqualified any Black man or woman in America from even the notion of seeking the nation’s highest office and serving as Commander-In-Chief over the world’s largest military and employer with over 2.91 million employees.
In conjunction with a racist judicial system of prosecutorial misconduct that packs Blacks into the prisons of mass incarceration – guilty or not, similarly, unarmed Black men will be packed into their graves from being shot dead by the “lawless” guns of “law enforcement’s” excessive deadly force, which by the way is being egged on by Trump as he has promised these killers immunity and no need for accountability.
In fact, Trump has nothing in common with us – Black men, other than the common thread of humanity which Trump and other racists have totally disregarded when it comes to their need to love and respect their Black human counterparts.
Although there is a history, that recent hatred for his Black members within the family of humanity, became most recently conspicuous in how Trump told racist lies about an entire community of legal Black Haitian immigrants, in September 2024 as part of a presidential debate presentation before an audience of nearly 70 million watchers. His lies came without remorse, in spite of how they triggered mob violence and domestic acts of terrorism toward innocent Haitian children and their parents.
Consequently, only a brainwashed Black fool would think Trump cares for us and is worthy of our vote, when every imaginable policy or budgetary item from health care, police accountability, earned income tax credit, judicial justice, fair housing, education, economic justice, early intervention, de-militarization, environmental justice, livable wages, death penalty moratoriums, and any other imaginable legislative measure that could save “Black Lives,” and preserve human/civil rights, Trump opposes. And now that Trump has been re-elected, by and large, by the evil forces of “White Supremacy,” all of the above are at risk.
So when a politician tells Black men he loves us, we will begin to ask to see his history of actions, his prioritized policies, and his budget (from whence his money comes and where it is dispersed), then we will tell him whether he loves us or not.
Every indicator, in terms of Trump’s history, prioritized policies, and budget, confirms that Trump only loves Trump; these indicators also strongly suggest that Trump hates Black men, Black women, White women, Black immigrants, Brown immigrants, Yellow immigrants, and Red Natives.
Based upon Trump’s history, policy, and budgetary priorities, Trump even hates the poor Whites who would support Trump if he shoots their mothers or their own children “in the middle of 5th Avenue;” Trump even hates the poor Whites who wave their Trump and Confederate flags, but would have no healthcare without OBAMA-care.
—Rev. Curtis E. Gatewood
PETITION:
* You may now sign this petition (click the link below) which calls upon the U.S. Department of Justice to hold Trump accountable for his felony convictions and other dangerous misconduct, or the failure to hold Trump responsible puts all less powerful Americans at risk.