This Time Trump Really Does Seem to Be Making Black Voter Inroads. Why?
More recently, I’ve heard similar responses from my own son — which is a far cry from the neo-socialist attitudes that caught his fancy when he was a collegiate volunteer in Obama’s 2008 presidential run.
Now 34 and entering the business world as co-owner of a comic book store in Maryland, he’s starting to sound more like, yes, a Republican, although fortunately minus the MAGA movement’s crackpot conspiracy theories — except when he wants to annoy his parents, which still seems to be his favorite pastime outside of making money.
Ah, well, I tell myself, he’s a grown man who has to learn some lessons for himself. There’s a lesson here for any of us who expect the new, rising generation to automatically embrace their parents’ attitudes without their parents’ experiences.
Talking to young Black voters, I hear a lot of questions as they try to understand why Biden and other traditional politicians have not done more for Black people, as well as others from here to the Middle East and beyond, even as I ask myself, “Why hasn’t Biden done more to make this case for himself?”
Sure, he’s a busy man — and his State of the Union speech offered a taste of the messages his campaign is beginning to make. He owes that to the voters who want to make an intelligent and informed choice even though, unlike me, they don’t have the luxury of following politics for a living.
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