Looking for Black Votes
The 2020 presidential candidates are all clamoring for the black vote. Even though Trump basically won the election with virtually no black support (Clinton had 88% of the black vote to Trump’s 8%[1]) Trump recognizes that his below 50% presidency means that he has no insurance policy…particularly with the government actively working against foreign interference, Julian Assange behind bars, Roger Ailes dead and Mark Zuckerberg turning into the anti-Christ. Trump recently launched his initiative to court black voters in Atlanta where he rolled out his 2020 freakshow and freak-self asking the crowd “What do you prefer…’Blacks for Trump’ or ‘African-Americans for Trump?’ “[2]
This is the problem for all of the candidates courting the black vote…not just Trump but the “top tier” Democratic candidates as well. None of them seems to have any kind of depth of knowledge or experience actually knowing any black people.
I have regularly put the challenge to my congregation “who do you know?” Another way to put it is, what does your world look like? My challenge to them and to the candidates is to actually take a close look at their world. If everyone in your world looks and sounds just like you or is some variation on the same, you are going to have a devilish time connecting on an authentic level with people outside of that bubble. It is not impossible to connect, but short of getting…
