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[Opinion] Black Men Have Issues
The Root ^ | Nov 2023 | Antjuan Seawright

Posted on 03/15/2024 7:45:38 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

Glad I have your attention now. Because we do have issues we care about.

I’m a 38 year old black man from South Carolina. But I don’t pretend that, as a Black man, I speak for everyone who looks like me. I’m just not that arrogant nor am I crazy as hell.

On the other hand, I’m also not stupid. I travel a lot escaping my own personal echo chamber whenever I get the chance and I listen more than I talk. Whether I’m sitting in the barbershop, praying in church, waiting in the airport or walking down the street. I listen and I apply what I hear to the history I know, the world I see before me and the common sense I was born with.

I listen and, for the past several months, I’ve heard the same refrain again and again from Black men: “If you want our vote, then you better care about our issues.” You see, over the years I’ve written a great deal about how Black voters in general and Black men specifically constitute one of the most consequential and most loyal voting blocs in America. Now, while that is certainly true, it’s not by accident. Whether we’re talking about the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 or making lynching a federal hate crime for the first time in American history, appointing more black women to the appeals court than any of the other president and driving Black unemployment to its lowest point in 50 years, that loyalty hasn’t been expected. It’s been earned.

Now as the pundits increasingly talk about Black men as a determining swing vote, that loyalty can’t be taken for granted.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Society
KEYWORDS: black; blackkk; blackmen; blahblahblah; race; racism
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"Now, don’t get me wrong, from passing the Affordable Care Act to capping prescription drug costs, we’ve done a great deal not only to address the health disparities facing the Black community "

A Kool aide drinker that is a permanent democrat.

He actually brings up valid issues, but fails to interject any personal accountability into why blacks continue to fail.

1 posted on 03/15/2024 7:45:38 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Officer Tatum 👍


2 posted on 03/15/2024 7:57:15 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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Blacks vote for Demorats. Period. Every fact and data point since their men got kicked out of the house by ADC and the Great Society tells them they shouldn’t but they do. Every year, every election. My approach is walk away. I don’t care to hear the BS about some big shift to the GOP. Its micro-incremental if at all.


3 posted on 03/15/2024 7:58:50 PM PDT by anton
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Keep voting democrat and nothing will actually change for the better.


4 posted on 03/15/2024 8:02:02 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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“My approach is walk away.”

Do you mean walk away from black patriots who intend to vote for Trump?


5 posted on 03/15/2024 8:03:27 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

It’s not a race problem, it’s a problem race.


6 posted on 03/15/2024 8:04:47 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
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Name the last black country that has had wealth and prosperity.


7 posted on 03/15/2024 8:05:17 PM PDT by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Lets put to bed the staid rants about “justice”.

It is a fact that you cannot impanel a jury a sit in judgement for a black person in a serious matter that does not include black people. Since it only takes 1 to prevent conviction that means that that “1” is sufficiently willing to convict based on the evidence they are shown.

The reason for black incarceration rates is black people doing crimes.


8 posted on 03/15/2024 8:06:00 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: anton

I know quite a few who don’t, educated, intelligent and more conservative than most so called conservatives


9 posted on 03/15/2024 8:06:11 PM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Cut to the end of the article and you find this...
"Antjuan Seawright (@antjuansea) is a Democratic political strategist, founder and CEO of Blueprint Strategy LLC, a CBS News political contributor, and a senior visiting fellow at Third Way."
For a short while, I was thinking maybe he can think for himself and not live on the plantation. Alas, it wasn't to be.
10 posted on 03/15/2024 8:28:56 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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But, but... If you don’t vote for Biden, then you ain”t black.


11 posted on 03/15/2024 8:38:02 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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Name the last black country that has had wealth and prosperity.

Wakanda.

12 posted on 03/15/2024 8:40:25 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: anton

Blacks never got off the “Democratic” Party plantation. They went from Democrat Party slaves in the South to a Democrat Party captured and abused voting block.

It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic and sad.


13 posted on 03/15/2024 9:05:34 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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Didn’t Zimbabwe have a lot of billionaires per capita, at one point?


14 posted on 03/15/2024 9:14:35 PM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

LBJ knew what he was talking about.


15 posted on 03/15/2024 9:15:16 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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Wakanda? Oh, you mean real black countries with wealth and prosperity . . . none.


16 posted on 03/15/2024 9:40:43 PM PDT by Rockingham (`)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Antjuan

Already lost me there.

After tallying up the "pro" and "con" (no pun intended) columns, I have determined what all of you have determined...

the black community is a 13% millstone around the neck of America, and will be one of the leading causes of its demise. For every positive, there are 65 negatives that can not be overcome.

17 posted on 03/15/2024 9:42:14 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Well haven’t ya figured out that blacks are property owned by the DNC.


18 posted on 03/15/2024 10:00:36 PM PDT by Jumper
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*Blacks vote for Demorats. Period.*

Don’t forget the Jooz.


19 posted on 03/15/2024 10:25:15 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Rennes Templar
OMG!!!! Even the inner city women, now, are Violent and feral.

Can I use that? "It's not a race problem, it's a problem race."

ANYONE who watches TV or is on the web can SEE this for themselves.......it's VERY SAD that the DEMONIC DEMOCRATS HAVE TURNED A TON OF THIS RACE INTO ANGRY ZOO ANIMALS!

20 posted on 03/15/2024 11:37:44 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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