Are the Black Voters Running Away from the “Democrat Plantation”

Some recent polls have indicated there has been a shift in the black voter base that seems to be favoring the Republicans over the traditional black voting bloc in blindly supporting Democrats. If that holds up in 2024, it might mean bad news for the Democrats.

Over the years, ever since the presidency of FDR, blacks have voted for Democrats at over a 90% rate. It was almost a guarantee that the Democrats could count on the black vote no matter what the times were. There was an inkling in the 2016 and 2020 elections that things might be changing as Donald Trump broke the 90% wall. Even though it was a small gain, it was a harbinger of things to come as the black voters started to leave the “Democrat Plantation”, as it seems that many blacks could sense that they were being taken for granted all these many years by Democrats who promised them everything at election time, and then reneged on their promises once the election was over.

If the Republicans can get around 80% of the black vote, it is game over for the Democrats. The policies of the Biden Administration seems to be a problem in the black community. High crime in black communities due to the diminution of reduced police presence and lax criminal prosecutions by soft on crime prosecutors, have restricted law abiding black citizens from feeling safe in their community. Due to the increase in crime in the black communities, many stores have closed their doors because of rampant retail theft, mainly by undisciplined teenagers in organized “smash and grab” episodes promoted by social media, thereby depriving black residents of a convenient shopping experience.

In most of those communities, most of the elected officials are black Democrats, who seem to turn a blind eye to the terrible conditions affecting their communities. Also, the open border policy of letting illegals into our country, by the Democrat Biden Administration, has affected the job possibilities of black workers by migrants who get jobs for lower pay than black job seekers can get and are willing to work for. Also, the infusion of non-English speaking students, in mostly minority schools, has made poor performing schools even worse than they have been before the influx. The Democrats, in pandering to the teacher unions in opposing charter schools, has also been seen by blacks as forcing their children to attend poor performing schools instead of better performing charter schools.

The Republicans must and should engage the black community in showing them that their quality of life will be better for them under the Republican rule of free enterprise capitalism rather than the Marxist/Socialist economic policies promoted by the Democrats.

Ironically, it was the Democrat Party which was the driving force behind slavery and segregation in the United States, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan throughout the years, not the Republicans, but it seems an anomaly that blacks supported, overwhelmingly, the party that kept them down both socially and financially. The Republicans must engage the black voters in getting their positive message across that the Republican policies are the policies that will make black people better off as they get off the “Democrat Plantation” to better themselves.

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The presidential election of 2024 is important not only for black citizens, but to the country as a whole. No community should be discriminated against and the American dream should be available to all. Yes, America has been a great melting pot of people from around the world and we should attempt to make it better not worse by electing competent people to office regardless of their color, their gender, religious background or ethnicity. 

Identity politics have no place in the running of our country, competence and experience in doing the job should be the overriding condition of government employment. The black people have a chance to better themselves by electing people to office who have their best interests at heart, whether they are black, brown, white, red, or yellow, and competent, and who espouse policies that our founders gave us, free enterprise capitalism not destructive Marxism/Socialism.

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