Posted on 08/31/2024 9:17:56 AM PDT by thegagline
African American women are the workhorses of the Democrats – consistently demonstrating the strongest loyalty to both the party and its individual candidates, both Black and White. According to a Pew Research report, 95 per cent of Black women voted for Joe Biden in 2020 – roughly the same percentage as supported Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Barack Obama in both 2008 and 2012. Indeed, led by powerhouse African-American former State Representative Stacey Abrams, Black women were crucial in securing Georgia for Biden in 2020, the first time a Democrat had taken the state in nearly 30 years.
Four years on, Kamala Harris – the first Black woman to receive the democratic nomination – is counting on this cohort to secure her own historic victory. She cannot win without them. But that support – despite early enthusiasm from thousands of Black female voters – is hardly guaranteed.
Earlier this week, a video on X posted with the hashtag #imnotwithher generated nearly three million views. The video featured Black women from across the US – of all ages, hair styles and skin tones – stridently declaring that they will not be voting for Kamala Harris on November 5.
“I am not with her,” they say, “because she is not with me.”
The video, slick yet plain-speaking, was produced by the Trump campaign and makes no effort to hide its “vote-for-me” agenda. But just as with Trump’s first victory, his second could easily depend upon just a handful of voters in just a handful of states – all with sizeable African-American populations.
Polling, for instance, already suggests that Trump could pull in nearly 30 per cent of the total Black vote this year – more than three times the number back in 2020. Black men, in particular, are demonstrating strong support for Trump over his promises to tackle unemployment and other economic issues exacerbated by the pandemic. With so much riding on so few votes, any shift by Black women like the #imnotwithher crowd could ultimately deny Harris that historic turn in the White House.
Much as with Black men, the #imnotwithher ads suggest Black women approve of Trump’s economic focus – as well as his promise to restore law-and-order in America’s crime-ridden inner cities. But beyond mere politics is personality. Even more than Obama – another mixed-raced Democrat from a far Western state – Harris has always been an unlikely “Black” candidate.
The daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants, Harris’ family – much like my own – is a mash-up of Blacks, Jews and Asians who perfectly encapsulate America’s increasingly multi-culti reality. But the one thing the Harrises are not is conventionally African-American. And Kamala, more than any of them, reflects this politically awkward reality. Harris may be married to a White man, but Black women of her education and economic level actually have the lowest intermarriage rates of any American demographic. As the daughter of immigrants, Harris also has little of the direct familial connection to the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow that inform so many of the issues – from black maternal mortality to reparations for slavery – that have dominated her career.
True, Harris attended a historically Black college and pledged a historically Black sorority. But with her White husband and multi-ethnic parentage, Harris has never been quite like the Black people known by most other Black people. And this, more than anything, may be why those #imnotwithher women believe Harris is not with them.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out at the polls.
Of course, I’m skeptical.
WHAT??? Melanin and ovaries aren’t carrying the day? What’s wrong with those women?
For every “I’m not with her” there are 2 fraudulent, mail in ballots.
They buy their own groceries ?
Anyone who buys their own groceries has had enough of Biden/Obama economics .
#IMNOTWITHHER (1:37)
https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1828862162044850351
Oh, for God’s sake …
There are some beautiful women in that ad. No ebonics, either.
“ …powerhouse African-American former State Representative Stacey Abrams …”
Only if power is measured by the size of her ass.
"Little"?? Not "little." Try NONE!
In September 2018, Prof. Donald Harris (Kamala's father) wrote about his family's roots in Jamaica and claimed to be descended from the 19th-century planter and slave owner Hamilton Brown. Here are Kammie's father's own words:
"My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown's Town) and to my maternal grandmother Miss Iris (née Iris Finegan, farmer and educator, from Aenon Town and Inverness, ancestry unknown to me). The Harris name comes from my paternal grandfather Joseph Alexander Harris, land-owner and agricultural 'produce' exporter (mostly pimento or all-spice), who died in 1939 one year after I was born and is buried in the church yard of the magnificent Anglican Church which Hamilton Brown built in Brown's Town (and where, as a child, I learned the catechism, was baptized and confirmed, and served as an acolyte)."Well, I guess you could argue that is a "direct familial connection to the legacies of slavery." Just not in the way they want.
“...consistently voting to remain poor. Consistently voting stupid.”
We used to hear about Welfare Queens popping out dozens of kids to keep the welfare checks flowing in. They saw Uncle Sugar as their payday as long as the kids kept coming. I wonder if that is still true. They may be stupid, but they are responding rationally to perverse economic incentives created by our very stupid government.
- 1/2 India
- 7/16 Jamaica (probably, mostly African roots)
- 1/16 Irish
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Father of Kamala Harris: Donald J. Harris (1/8 white)
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Father of Donald J. Harris: Oscar Joseph Harris (1/4 white)
Mother of Donald J. Harris: Beryl Christie Finegan
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Father of Oscar Joseph Harris: Joseph Alexander Harris
Mother of Oscar Joseph Harris: Christiana Brown (aka "Chrisy") (1/2 white)
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Father of Christiana Brown: Hamilton Brown (100% Irish)
Hamilton Brown
Hamilton Brown was born in Co Antrim (Ireland) in 1776, the year of the US Declaration of Independence.
Brown emigrated to Jamaica, then a British colony, and became an enthusiastic slave owner on the sugar plantations that were the mainstay of the island’s economy. He opposed the abolition of slavery across the British Empire in 1832 and went to Antrim to replace his slaves with workers from his native county.
The Irish formed a significant portion of the early white population in the British colony of Jamaica. Hamilton Brown emigrated to this Caribbean Island around 1795, initially working as an estate bookkeeper before amassing extensive land holdings. He became a wealthy cattle breeder and sugar plantation owner, at various times owning, managing or serving as executor for several dozen estates in Jamaica (mostly in St Ann’s Parish), including one he named “Antrim” after the county of his birth.
sources:
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/07/23/kamala-harris-is-a-descendant-of-an-irish-slave-owner-in-jamaica/
https://irishheritagenews.ie/how-irish-is-kamala-harris-vice-presidents-irish-roots/
This last 2 seconds on FB https://img.mewe.com/api/v2/comments/dmBHCQXqt16Ft75fMysi6WalG1jKtn8Aj5XsiXF3JWRm00vx7qopGJlmIeU/photo/400x400/kamalla+busing.jpeg
They probably disagree with her policies, what she reveals, that is. Plus, just because her skin is dark, she’s not African American, she’s just pretending to be, and they know it.
Gubmint handouts, also known as wealth redistribution of tax payer money, are what keeps them on the dim plantation.
Black women do not like women of other ethnicities stealing their men. When she was having her fling with a black married man named Mayor Willie Brown, who was married to a black woman. At the time, Kamala was selling herself as a person of Indian descent. I don’t think that sat well with traditional black women back then, and it still doesn’t today.
Nah, they will vote for her around 95%.
They are incapable of independent thought, a true hive mind.
yes, it’s younger black men that Trump can pick off. Black women are always going to vote for daddy.
They get all the free stuff from the government. Why would they stop voting Democratic?
Black men, on the other hand. They know they got screwed over. So they'll vote for Trump.
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