I want to address a couple of current issues in the news. The first issue is reporting that polling indicates that more Black voters are leaning away from Biden and thinking of not voting in November. The other set of polling suggests that more younger Black men may vote for Trump in November.
The next issue via some Progressive media outlets or commentators is that Biden is losing support among young voters because of his policy on Israel. I have stopped watching some commentators because they promote an incomplete narrative on this issue. Joy Reid and Alex Wagner are examples of short-sighted perspectives promoted on their shows.
The Younger Black Voter
I posted an interview of Don Lemon’s interview with D.L. Hughley. I found the political discussions of this interview to be very insightful. It goes directly to the concerns of what Young Black Males miss about a 2nd Trump Presidency and the lack of informed opinions on the situation in Gaza. Once you get past the discussion on Monique to the relevant political portion of the interview, Hugely shares some realistic data and ideas.
I cringe when Ice Cube, Charlemagne tha GOD, 50 Cents, and other pop culture celebrities offer their less informed views on politics. I remember Charlemagne da God asking Biden in 2019 what he would do for Black People. Hugely points out that 56% of Black people in this country live in Republican-controlled states,.
These states have Republican Governors and Republican-controlled legislatures. Those states have refused to accept and implement federal legislation that would benefit a large portion of their minority citizens. A good example would be Medicaid expansion. The Federal government offered hundreds of millions in benefits to those states, but their governments declined the funds.
In other words, more than half of minority citizens live under State government rules that refuse to utilize the Federal funding available to help make their lives easier. The uninformed believe it is the President who has failed them. They don’t think to hold the leaders of their state and local governments accountable.
Gaza
One of the failings of the mainstream media since the creation of the state of Israel is to distinguish between a Jewish state and a Zionist state. In a way, Zionism is to Judaism what Christian Nationalism is to Christianity. It is through the lenses of religious and racial bigotry that the world accepts the right of Israel to exist while we ignore the rights of Palestinians to exist in their homeland under their sovereign government.
No major Western media outlet informs us about what has been done to the Palestinian people to grow the Jewish population in Israel from less than 100,000 in 1947 to over 8 million people today. Western media does not inform us of the dozens of military expulsions Palestinians have endured as European and American Jews stole their land and homes. They do this with impunity with the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) standing by to enforce laws under which Palestinians have no rights. Western Media does not inform us of how Jewish settlers commit daily acts of violence against Palestinians, as the IDF ensures that no retaliation takes place.
We always hear about Israel’s right to exist. No Western media or government entity discusses the rights of Palestinians to exist in their own country and on their land. On the other hand, no one informs us that the Palestinian people are mere pawns of their own and other Arab leaders.
Hamas was chosen to govern Gaza by a vote of the Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu preferred them over the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority operates without autonomy in the West Bank. Israel received money from other Arab states to pass through to Hamas.
American students protesting the actions of Israel in Gaza are right to call out the injustice here. Where I have a problem is their willingness to try to hold President Biden accountable for maintaining US policy since the creation of the state of Israel. I agree the US should reevaluate its policy but I don’t hear anyone on the Progressive side talking about how we should hold Hamas accountable.
Hamas staged an attack from Gaza into Israel, knowing how the right-wing government would respond. They embedded themselves among the Palestinian citizens who fled their homes to avoid the battle thus drawing Israeli fire upon innocent civilians wherever they sought refuge. The protesting American youth don’t acknowledge this reality. They don’t call out the leaders of Hamas for using their people as fodder for martyrdom.
They somehow believe that Biden can somehow make Netanyahu and the Israeli forces just cease-fire. They don’t understand that Hamas forces will keep the hostilities going as long as the world is changing its view of Israel’s Zionist ways under the cover of Jewish victimhood. The worst part about their ignorance about Hamas is their ignorance that both Iran and Russia provided support to Hamas to carry out the October 7, 2023 attacks.
They somehow believe that Biden can somehow make Netanyahu and the Israeli forces just cease-fire. They don’t understand that Hamas forces will keep the hostilities going as long as the world is changing its view of Israel’s Zionist ways under the cover of Jewish victimhood. The worst part about their ignorance of Hamas is their ignorance that both Iran and Russia provided support to Hamas to carry out the October 7, 2023 attacks.
Because Iran and Russia are involved in planning the attack, Biden cannot change his policy to provide such open support to Israel. D.L. Hugely notes that what goes on behind the scenes diplomatically is something we cannot know at this time. Leaders of Hamas freely admit that their citizens, no matter what age, are merely martyrs for the cause. That’s not Biden’s fault.
People need to know that Israeli Intelligence had copies of the October 7, 2023 plan a full year before the attack. They did nothing to prevent it and now they are carrying out ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Biden is trying to prevent this from happening behind the scenes. If Trump becomes President, he will give them full-throated permission to complete whatever they don’t finish.
As of May 4, 2024, Hamas has representatives negotiating a hostage release and a cease-fire in Cairo, Egypt. Before October 7, 2023, the Biden Administration was close to a peace agreement with the surrounding Arab nations and Israel. This was an agreement neither the Israeli right nor Hamas wanted. One has to wonder if there was some form of tacit collusion between Netanyahu and Hamas.
If Trump Wins
I have also included and interview with former Rudy Guiliani associate Lev Parnas. He was found guilty and sentenced to almost two years in prison for campaign finance violations around his efforts to dig up dirt on Biden in Ukraine. Listen to his story. When you consider his points and the details of the Right-wing Project 2025 plan to make Trump a full Authoritarian. You have to question how any objective thinking and informed Black person or American would not vote, vote for Trump, or waste a vote on a third party candidate.
I merely seek to objectively inform. I am giving you a glass of water, oxygen to breathe, eyes to see….but if you don’t find a use for these, then wherever we end up after a 2nd Trump inauguration will be our collective fate.
A Reasonable Point of View 
This is truly profound!! Thank you for such an informative piece of writing! I will share it amongst my network!
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