Posted on 09/16/2020 8:47:32 PM PDT by bitt
A year after the 2016 election, I overheard my first conversation in which two young men of color discussed the political issues of the day. I don’t remember what they were going on about, but the fact that they were going on about politics—and with such fervor! — was what struck immediately, as young men discussing politics was a rarity in my working-class Miami neighborhood, where typically it was older men who engaged in these sometimes heated discussions.
Sitting across from them at Starbucks, I noted their interaction as an entertaining anomaly and chalked it up to the current hyper-politicized cultural moment in which anyone, at any time, might surprise you with their clearly newfound interest in politics. Which is to say that I expected to encounter no more than a handful of these political squabbles between young men of color in the ensuing years of the Trump era, as the possibility of a broad political realignment driven by this traditionally disinterested demographic went against all conventional wisdom and seemed far-fetched, even to someone on the ground witnessing its inception — boy, was I wrong.
In the months and years to follow, all over Miami, in bars, coffee shops, and at the gym, I would overhear–and was sometimes pulled into — these rudimentary political conversations between young men of color. What was immediately obvious was that a majority, if not all, of these young men were brought into their nascent political awareness by issues relating to their masculinity and manhood. An archetype emerged: these were young men who never thought about politics until politics knocked on their door and made them aware of its existence. Like so many, personal grievance is what drove them into the political arena and what was driving their politics. The gist of their beef:
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
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cant read the crap from these people anymore
Remember when Kamala the ho Harris said she would eliminate the 2nd amendment via executive order even though she can’t? So right there, wouldn’t that forfeit her ability to serve being that she has to take an oath to protect and defend the constitution? She admitted she would not.
This was a decent read. Thank you.
Perez made some good points. In my words, progressives have over feminized their politics. Young men of all ethnic groups are not on board with being shamed for being masculine and they are trending away from the party of hyper estrogen females.
Psst. He’s on our side.
This is an excellent article.
Rush spent a lot of time on it on his show today.
“this crap”
Did you read the article? The authors thesis is that a hyper-femininized Democrat Party is alienating black and Hispanic young men. These men are responding well to Trump and the GOP’s outreach efforts.
It helps that Mr. Trump is the first modern GOP candidate to really ask for thier votes.
i cannot stand how the libtard way of writing permeates this article
its not about the content its about the libtard style and way of phrasing used
You are clearly illiterate.
Good article. Thanks for posting.
Don’t bother the guy’s a psychopath. At this point I’m almost 100% certain he’s posting from an insane asylum.
Dirty Little Secret is sitting next to him :-)
Not that I’m all there.
In about a year I’ll be sitting between them LOL
To most men of color, traditional masculinity isn’t a toxic ideology, or, for that matter, an ideology at all, but simply the natural order of things. They think and behave like men because it is what’s demanded of them and what it is necessary for survival in the real world. To tell a young man of color living in the inner city that his way of thinking is toxic is to place him in peril, as his survival depends not on buzzwords or the tampering down of his masculinity, but on signaling masculine strength when confronted by a world that is not beholden to the passive-aggressive femininity of elite cultural spaces.
I’m a woman (with 3 brothers and 3 sons and a husband so I think I know men pretty well) and I don’t understand why women vote Dem, but I REALLY don’t understand why any man at all would vote Dem.
I can think of literally nothing the Dems offer men. They just seem to hate everything about them—look at how they treated Kavanaugh, or the horrific family court system, or how men are treated in college, and the BS #metoo stuff. Just for a start.
That's a great Twitter thread. Well worth the time reading some of the replies.
Yes. The election is really about jobs: jobs for Americans of all races or jobs for foreigners. The Democrats are in the pockets of the world’s plutocrats.
And freedoms. It’s about freedoms: the freedom to defend oneself, the freedom to speak, the freedom to do what one wants to do to earn a living, the freedom to get along with one’s neighbor without political interference and division,...
Are the noises inside my head too loud for you?
I have not met one young man who is in a field that requires some testosterone like trades or leadership to be pro Biden.
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