No African-American nor woman running mate could make me vote for Trump
No African-American nor woman running mate could make me vote for Trump
Did Trump's camp learn nothing from the Georgia senatorial election with Herschel Walker and the Rev. Raphael Warnock?
More often than not, I assume that conservative Republicans are playing dumb about America’s racist history (i.e., “brown girl” Nikki Haley). Then there are times where I realize some people really just slept straight through geography and history classes (i.e., Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton badgering TikTok CEO Shou Chew). And still other times I scratch my head and ponder on how many people were in a coma from 2008 to 2016 while former President Barack H. Obama was living in the White House.
Why? Reuters reported that five friends and allies of Donald Trump are giving him the names of mostly women and African-American men as a potential running mate for the 2024 presidential campaign. Again, mostly women and African-American men. They know it’s an absolute waste of time trying to find both in one body.
He can’t tell us apart anyway. Trump already claimed he “knew Diamond but didn’t know Silk at all” regardless of these two African-American women always campaigning for him together. That statement is like saying you know who Khadijah is but Maxine Shaw “Attorney At Law” is a complete mystery. The man’s memory bank can only hold one black lady’s name and significance at a time. (Sorry, not sorry Omarosa.)
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Regardless of that, while Trump won over Kodak Black, Lil Wayne, Kanye West and Sexyy Red, that still only left him with 25% of black adults who have a favorable view of him now. Somehow, the same people who watched the drastically different reaction between Rev. Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker in the 2022 Georgia senatorial election are still convinced that black people solely vote on melanin.
Wrong! I believe most of us vote for the overall qualified candidate. While Noreaga may be asking all his “Drink Champs” guests to “give it up for Trump,” the cocoa butter crowd does not all jump for joy at “Get Out of Jail” free cards. We don’t pull a Snoop Dogg and decide we have “nothing but love and respect” for Trump solely because he pardoned a close friend. We don’t want your $200. We just want him to go. “And don’t forget to go when you leave.”
We want actual qualified candidates. This campaign to throw any melanin-rich person into the White House to nod and smile at Trump’s requests is not only condescending; it underestimates the strength and intelligence of black voters.