Are you now feeling the joy?
By Dr. Harold A. Black
blackh@knoxfocus.com
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I was on a local radio show where the host told the callers that I was black. I corrected him saying that I was “mostly black” having 10 distinct DNA strains.
On the campaign trail for Harris, Obama (who may not even be mostly black) chided black men: “And you are thinking about sitting out?” he said. “Part of it makes me think — and I’m speaking to men directly — part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that.”
Obama actually said: “aren‘t feeling the idea of having a woman as president.” I’m surprised he didn’t try to feel the idea of being black by rapping the words.
Michelle Obama joined in the chiding with: ”If we don’t get this election right, your wife, your daughter, your mother, we as women, will become collateral damage to your rage. So are you as men prepared to look into the eyes of the women and children you love and tell them you supported this assault on our safety?”
I don’t know what assault she was referring to. I doubt if it was the assault perpetrated on unborn black babies. Maybe the Obamas should have said, “You should get down on your knees and thank your mothers that they did not decide to abort you like 50 percent of your unborn brothers.”
The lapdog media chimed in saying that black men are sexist if they do not support Harris.
All of this strains credulity. First, Obama doesn’t know jack firsthand about black men. He was raised by his white mother in Hawaii, went to Ivy League schools and is a multimillionaire with million-dollar homes. Not exactly the hood. However, he can identify with being raised by a mother without his father around like the majority of black boys today. If anything, black males are the antithesis of sexism. They are raised by women and I believe the long braided hair and earrings are so prevalent among black men because they wish to emulate the most important people in their lives – their mothers and grandmothers. Sexist? Hardly.
Second, Harris like Obama is not of the ‘hood and she too may not be “mostly black.” She was raised in Canada by her Indian PhD mother. However, like Obama, she was raised without a father in the home. Isn’t it ironic that neither black Democrat presidential candidates are African-Americans (although Obama’s father is African)? So why should blacks have blind allegiance to Harris simply because she happens not to be white?
Why all this scolding and finger pointing? I thought Harris’ was the campaign of joy. Did you feel the joy? I didn’t and never did. If any campaign was having fun, it was Trump’s. The photo op at McDonald’s was brilliant. Harris should have done it right after she claimed to have worked at McDonalds. But her campaign lacked imagination (and joy). Then there was Biden saying that Trump supporters were garbage. Again Trump’s reaction was brilliant riding to a rally in a garbage truck and saying “You can’t lead America if you don’t love Americans.” Do you think Harris, Biden and the left love America and Americans? If so, where are the American flags in their neighborhoods? I have yet to see one when I drive through my old neighborhoods in Atlanta. Yet at the family farm in Gray, it seems like there was one in front of almost every house on our highway (along with a Trump-Vance yard sign).
The next four years will be interesting. I expect that Trump will do what Biden did and erase as much of the past four years with executive orders. Harris said that if elected Trump will go after his enemies. I think he is too smart to do that no matter how much he wants to do it. There has been so much damage done over the past four years that hopefully Trump will go against his nature and be magnanimous to the losers and continue to offer hope to the rest of us. So do you feel the joy? Now the answer is yes.
