There is growing support for Donald Trump among African-American men who are drawn to his ‘alpha male’ persona and unfiltered, tell-it-like-it-is speeches.

This is a worrying sign for Kamala Harris’ efforts to win the presidency in November. She will have to make a concerted effort to win that demographic over and not assume that it is already locked in.

Oshay Duke Jackson is an intelligent, articulate commentator and can be hilarious. His show ‘The Celebrity Junk‘ is entertaining while being informative. He is insightful and gives his viewers something to ponder.

He makes it clear that Kamala Harris is calling on the black vote but doesn’t identify with the black struggle. As far as he is concerned, blacks have willingly given their vote to the Democratic Party but what have they got in return? Obama, Biden, and Harris have not gone out of their way to help African Americans but expect their support.

Oshay Duke Jackson takes issue with Kamala Harris saying America is not a racist country and doesn’t support reparations. He points to her statement on reparations where she says, “ I’m not going to sit here and say, I’m going to do something that’s only going to benefit black people, no!”  

Then what do we get out of voting for you? 

The way he sees it, African-American women get something out of voting for Harris, but not African-American men. There is a strong element of DEI here and it should be called out. Many black women are the beneficiaries of DEI and feel they don’t need to perform, they don’t need to reciprocate. Kamala Harris is their champion and they will blindly vote for her because she is a woman and is black. These are not qualifications to make you president of the United States.

Donald Trump unequivocally makes it clear what he is about, what he is going to do when he becomes president and is fixated on making ‘America Great Again’. He wants to take the country in a defined direction.

What does Kamala Harris stand for? What is her political philosophy? All too often she is ambiguous and garbles her message into an incohate word salad. Even AOC aides by a political philosophy and has a clear vision of what she wants to accomplish.

Oshay Duke Jackson is joined by other African-American YouTube commentators like Dr Umar Johnson, Anton Daniels and Dr Boyce Watkins in not supporting Harris and calling her out. They are of the view that this election is about immigration, inflation and incompetence. They say that Harris has been an ineffective Border Czar, that she is complicit in adopting policies that have led to high inflation. Allowing hoards of immigrants to enter the country will only take jobs and resources away from African Americans and Donald Trump has identified this not Harris.

They believe that Harris and her followers particularly in the liberal media will pull the race and gender card and with cancel culture what it is, many will be fearful of criticising Harris. “Oh, you are attacking her because she is a black woman, oh you are being racist,” never mind that you have an awful record. 

The likes of Joy Reid, Whoopi Goldberg, Abby Phillips, Simon Sanders-Townsend and Tiffany Cross will be steadfast in their support for Harris and will use their platforms to mobilise the Black vote to get behind Harris. 

Oshay Duke Jackson has said that Trump will do more for black men than Harris and that under his presidency (2016-2020) the country moved forward. The question is asked are you better off now than during the Trump administration? Was America in a better position then than it is now? Does America have the security of strong determined leadership? Can Harris do better? 

He believes that Trump should not fear the ‘black woman troupes’ and should hold Harris to account. Trump must draw attention to the fact that Harris marketed herself to the black community but does nothing for the Black community although she grew up in East Bay, Oakland and attended Howard University.

Kamala Harris must pay attention to this and address it. The black vote is n longer a monolith and there is a disconnect between black men and black women in America.

Black men resent women who benefit from DEI telling them that they must pull themselves up by their bootstraps and that they will only entertain “666” men as partners. Many want retribution for this marginalisation. Having the Black community so divided presents political opportunities.

If Oshay Duke Jackson and other African American men commentators can convince both black men and women that voting for Harris is not in their interests, it could be injurious to Kamala Harris’ presidential ambitions. 

“What can be, unburdened by what has been”.

Sure sounds like Oshay wants to be unburdened from Kamala Harris.