Sir Mikel OBE
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I agree culture definitely is king here, but I also think the experience you had in America isnt the experience the average black person would have in terms of the community, and relationship dynamics that come with it though. You have things in your favor that the unambigious black women dont have: Foreign-ness Biracial-ness That is the jackpot exotical in the black community. Especially back in days of old where an outright white woman makes you a sellout. You get a redbone to get the benefit, without going all the way over. You "Stay woke" with a redbone as donald glover hints in the song of the same name. You got men, and women, at their best behavior because that inherent proximity to whiteness means something to black people. Even at Kamala's school Howard, the shining beacon of black colleges. When I was a kid in the 90's those sororities were still paper bag checking people for leadership. They still do it now.
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Black men dont have the power to be sexist and demand of their female counterparts that other groups do by and large also. A latino immigrant can be working in a home depot parking lot, go home and still have respect from a female counterpart. Most black women, rightly or wrongly, grew up with the same negative black tropes that every other group in America grows up with. That is why you'll quickly hear: "All men are dogs" "Niggas aint shit" ect As soon as a man messes up in their life. The expectation is for a black man to let you down, and that leads all dynamics. That is why when a black man gets with a non black woman he will be OVER-accommodating. They have to be because a man with little resources, and bad reputation, has to take what they can get. Also black men will usually, because of the former, bounce on kids. Black boys are raised with women being the center of the community, of their identity, and their ideology. They can take a female boss because mom ran the house. Other groups are less likely to take that. Voting for a black woman to lead is nothing because women already lead most parts of their lives.
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Black men have voted for the woman on the national ticket overwhelmingly every time except for Palin when was on the McCain ticket. The idea that black men are more misogynistic than White or Latino men is one not based in reality. Black men are so egalitarian, they dont even demand to lead in relationships. They dont demand their partners lose weight the way other groups do. They dont lead houses full of domestic violence. Black men are 50-50 to a fault. In fact, talk to white women. If they want to be in a relationship where a guy wont be overbearing they will even tell their daughters to date black men. Of course this is speaking of black American men. I cant speak on Africans who make up the majority in Europe.
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Warnock is the biggest narcissist this side of trump, especially with the way he treats(treated) his wife around Atlanta. If he is what the Democrats will drag out then its over before it starts. No feelings on Wes.
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Alabama has like 7 electoral votes. Biden was the god of woke, and won over 80 million votes. If the idea is that being "Woke" is the reason she couldnt even get 70 then they are taking the wrong thing away from this election. Also Biden set her up to fail from day 1 The whole "Im going to pick a black woman" before anything else as a VP pick made her look unqualified even if she was. Affirmative Action was supposed to be about QUALIFIED minorities getting an opportunity to have a shot at job roles, not just giving folks jobs based on being a minority. The way he spoke made it seem the latter, rather than the former.
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JFK asked white men to ask not what their country can do for them, but what they can do for their country. A white man then made his wife pick up his brain off the back of their car. Obama can scold black men as sexist for not being excited about not being able to feed their families, and a bunch of other self hating black guys agreed with him despite black men being her biggest male demographic😂 As the decease Kevin Samuels would say: "You cant make this shit up"
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Obama won 2x as a black identifying man. The idea that the country is now completely shut off to electing someone based on race is one simply not rooted in reality. The country is racist, but that isnt the reason why Kamala was unlikable, unrelatable, and not a strong candidate. In fact, she isnt even half as black as Barack presented. Barack was a black guy, in black churches, married to an unambiguously black woman, raising unambiguously black daughters. He was a black candidate. Kamala is a woman who was much more racially ambiguous, a white husband, white identifying stepchildren, less part of the soil, and less directly black. Her strength came in the fact that she was a POC in every sense of the word. You couldnt immediately place her, and that was a strength she could have built during a true primary. She could have been the first biracial candidate, and she still could be in 2028 with better positioning. The radical stuff around abortion and trans in sports did push people away, but honestly thats simply where the world will go. I'm old enough to remember the idea of Gay marriage being just as offensive to the general red state voter, and they got over it. They'll(eventually) get over the rest of it. This election was lost in the grocery store as I mentioned months ago.
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If this actually happens he'll be the most popular president since FDR.
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They need to get these clowns off of tv also:
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Democrats were never going to realistically raise minimum wage though. Housing is a big one. Millennials are ~40 and now realize they will never have the house, picket fence, and kids their boomer parents had. That American dream, for the most part, is dead.
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She didnt outperform Biden in a single county: Shameful performance. She really was a poor choice.
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Which is why I think Democrats need to change their strategy around "POC" completely. You cant treat people as a monolith just on a perceived "non-white" status(especially when one of those groups actually views themselves as white for all intent and purpose). Identity politics by our side in general needs retooling. It simply doesnt work in a country that is pretty right-leaning for the most part. I do think the media, in general, does a poor job talking to regular people. I was all in for Kamala but even months ago i mentioned that going to the grocery store is a miserable experience. @vesper brought out some statistics and even then that doesnt change how people feel. The economy just doesnt feel good for people, and even less so for people who arent making well over the regular income. You can only tell folks who feel screwed by the system that one guy is going to destroy it all, and have them not want to for so long. I will say you are out of touch as a media when a millionaire(billionaire?) reality tv star comes on a panel and seems much more in touch than the other folks talking: They dont need your votes for primary is true, but surely you dont say that when folks have to come out and vote for you to win? Just makes people seem useless to the process, and she should have had a primary in the end. I remember Kamala in the 2020 primary being generally unrelatable to most people in the country, not very charismatic, and being seen as a DEI hire in an age where DEI is going out of vogue. i think she could have grown into the best politician she could be through that grit and steel of a primary. Not just being handpicked.
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Yea....they wont give her another shot, but I think she'd do better if given the opportunity. I dont see him going through with most of the shit he says though. Maybe wishful thinking on my part.
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North Carolina gone.
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I think she needed a true primary. A time where we could have really got to know her and saw her tested against competition. Folks just didnt really know the true her. I'd like to see her run it back again in 4 years. I think going through a primary after growing, becoming more well-known, could do her a world of good. Nixon needed 1960 to have his 1968. She can come back from this.
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Before that girl got killed at UGA by the undocumented Venezuelan Georgia could have been in play.
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Latinos view themselves, for the most part, as temporarily embarrassed white men. Trump, when he calls them rapists, is viewed as a man telling it how it is because they agree with him about people who look like them. Its also why so many black men were quick to agree with Obama calling them sexist for not being excited about Kamala.....despite the fact they overwhelmingly voted for hillary(and kamala tonight). He probably cost her votes there too. You can only play on a marginalized group's self hate for so long. Trump just got lucky tonight.
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Blue wall is undefeated.
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He's down "bigly" in Pennsylvania though.
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The country, and system, is vastly different.
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That was nearly a half century ago. Back in the days where a Republican could win California
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Why so sensitive? Look at her husband. He's just as fat, white, and old as you😉 Theres going to be an old white man in the white house in January no matter what.
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This is actually a good thing as far as reporting goes.. That has pretty much stopped all reporting from our area. Its going to be a massive Democrat number when they start counting us.
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West Virginia sucks so much. How can they be so red given the conditions there.