Kamala Harris unveiled a race-based “opportunity agenda” on Monday, highlighting her desperation to win back increasingly disillusioned black male voters and what could ultimately motivate members of her generation. It revealed both prejudiced assumptions about sexuality.
Critics ridiculed the vice president's identitarian message and her cynical attempts to win the hearts of black men by promising to legalize marijuana nationwide, and criticized her past convictions for marijuana crimes. He noted both that he had helped prosecute numerous black men in the United States and that there were far more pressing issues at hand.
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Generally speaking, American men don't particularly like Kamala Harris. This is increasingly true not only for likely white and Hispanic male voters, but also for black men.
Recent NAACP Survey
Found 26% of black men under 50 intend to vote for President Donald Trump. broader increase Black support for Trump compared to the 2020 election.
“If Harris is over 90% [with black men]That would put her in trouble,” Republican strategist Sharmichael Singleton said recently.
said The Hill. “She needs to figure out a way to get black voters, especially men, to vote and energize black voters.”
Ms. Harris' surrogates, including former President Barack Obama, have recently gone to great lengths to label black men who might vote for Mr. Trump as misogynists.
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The strategy of downplaying clearly wasn't working, so Harris tried to pander instead.
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campaign memo Titled “Vice President Harris Will Serve Black Men,'' this week she revealed how she will try to help Americans from among voters who have given the Democratic Party a bad reputation.
“Today, Vice President Harris is laying out an opportunity agenda to give Black men the tools to achieve economic freedom, reduce costs, and protect their rights to better support themselves and their families. Yes,” the memo says.
Mr. Harris promised:
- Provides $1 million in loans of up to $20,000 to Black entrepreneurs.
- Supporting education and mentorship programs to help Black men “achieve well-paying jobs in high-demand industries and lead in their communities.”
- Provide race-based financial assistance to struggling farmers.
- Supports regulatory frameworks for cryptocurrencies and other digital assets.
- Launching a National Health Equity Initiative focused on Black men. and
- Legalize recreational marijuana nationwide.
Regarding the legalization of cannabis,
currently legal The memo says Harris wants the District of Columbia and 24 states to “give black men, who have long been over-policed for marijuana use, access wealth and wealth as the domestic cannabis industry takes shape.” I will fight for that,” he said. work in this new market. ”
Harris's “opportunity policy” was met with ridicule.
“I'm not really shocked that you think we're so stupid.”
For example, critics suggested that Ms. Harris' concerns about the impact of drug laws ring hollow, given that she was active in enforcing drug laws when she was San Francisco district attorney.
some
user on X removed footage from the 2019 Democratic primary debate featuring Tulsi Gabbard noticed,”[Harris] She has sent more than 1,500 people to prison for marijuana violations, but when asked if she had ever smoked marijuana, she laughed about it. ”
According to Harris told the Mercury News he oversaw more than 1,950 marijuana misdemeanor and felony convictions in San Francisco. Apparently she did so with unusual enthusiasm. After all, prosecutors working under her reportedly “convicted people on marijuana charges at a higher rate than under her predecessor.”
Although Harris is now a champion of marijuana legalization and clearly sees it as a winning proposition among black men, she fought on the ballot over marijuana legalization in 2010 and co-wrote the opposition in a voter guide. I even started writing. She remained relatively neutral on the issue when a subsequent ballot initiative passed in 2016.
The vice president changed his tune in May 2018, when it became politically convenient for him to begin planning his first presidential bid.
A few years later she
said “No one should have to go to jail for smoking weed,'' said the late “Late Night with Seth Meyers'' host.
Not all critics took issue with Harris' obvious hypocrisy and brazen opportunism. Some noted that the vice president seemed to be implying that black men disproportionately need the drug.
Matt Anter, President of the Young Republican Club of New York;
noticed“Why is illegal marijuana an 'unfair barrier' for black men? Is she implying that all black men are potheads? This is racism.”
Keith Barry, X Advertising Team;
tweeted“Of all the policy issues, is this the one you chose *especially* for black men? You've made us so stupid that our biggest concern is getting high or doing drugs.” I’m not really shocked that I see it as a sale.”
Former NFL running back Herschel Walker
I wrote“Every election, men of color become the focus of the Democratic Party. They give them money, now they give them marijuana, but they don't focus on education or jobs. It's all about securing votes. Yes, it's not about creating sustainable change. Where has Vice President Harris been for the past three years?”
Jeremy C. Hunt, Veterans Duty Chairman
said Fox News' Harris Faulkner said Harris “has this kind of caricature of black men in his head, and we're just a bunch of California potheads sitting there asking for government benefits. ” he said.
While Harris spoke to black men about drugs and cryptocurrency, Quenton Jordan, vice president of the Black Conservative Coalition, told The Hill that Trump's alternative message was “about issues that families discuss at the dinner table; “It resonates because he's talking about issues that men talk about.” At the barber shop. ”
pew research noticed In September, he announced that the economy and health care would be among the top issues for black male voters in this election.
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