It has become obvious that many black Americans are starting to turn their backs on the Democratic Party. After decades of being taken for granted for their loyalty, many have become fed up with a party that incessantly claims to champion their cause while doing little to deserve their support.
Content creator Trey Quinn, also known as “The Strong Dad,” expressed the frustrations many black men feel toward the Democrats when he called out Vice President Kamala Harris for refusing to outline a policy agenda. In a recent video, he took aim at Harris and others who claim that black people should demand that the vice president outline her policy agenda.
“Now I just feel disrespected,” Quinn begins. “We’re at the part of the election cycle where they’re telling black people that they shouldn’t ask about no policy, that asking about policy shouldn’t matter. You should just support someone because they’re Black and they’re a woman.”
Quinn continued, recounting how the Democrats have failed to address the issues black Americans are facing.
“When it comes to Democrats, because again, like I said, I ain’t voting for Trump. When it comes to Democrats, I won’t vote for them because of how they’ve followed through. During Obama’s term…a Democratic term, I witnessed an entire city, an entire black area be completely gentrified under Democratic lawmakers, under Democratic leadership. I watched a Democratic president who they told us not to worry about the policy and just vote for. I watched as he signed a law giving police immunity, as he allowed for the Sinaloa cartel to have carte blanche in black communities, decimating their communities with illegal drugs and guns. As an ex-convict, I saw Democratic lawmakers, judges, politicians, support and lock up men like me for things we shouldn’t have been locked up for or aggravating our sentences.”
Quinn slammed Democrats for doing “things that they talk about Republicans potentially doing to us” and discussed how cities like Baltimore have suffered under Democratic governance.
“It hasn’t been all Republican leadership. It’s been Democratic leadership. They don’t want us to unify. They want us to coalition with other communities. Then these other communities get their benefits. These other communities get preferential treatment. These other communities get spoken for. Meanwhile, we get left holding the protest bag. We get left marching in the streets. We get left being beat over the head with rhetoric that says we can’t be pro-Black unless we’re for them also. This is the stuff that comes with democratic ideology, with liberalism.”
“Don’t ask about her Policy” ??????
I mean I’m feeling disrespected how bout you Black Folk?🤔 pic.twitter.com/YsQd2yh5Ds
— 💯HOTEP💯 (@TheStrongDad) August 27, 2024
In another post, Quinn expressed similar sentiments, criticizing media figures for deflecting to Trump fearmongering when asked about Harris’ policies.
The answer to What her Policies are should be a list of her Policies.
What it shouldn’t be is a fear response for what Trump says.
PATHETIC BLACK PEOPLE responding with what-about-isms are the same sellouts who danced for Joe Biden while accepting NOTHING for their votes. https://t.co/OgD44Fva0z
— 💯HOTEP💯 (@TheStrongDad) August 27, 2024
Quinn’s arguments appeared to target people like comedian Steve Harvey, who refused to ask Harris tough questions when he interviewed her back in June.
“Before y’all start calling my radio show and DM-ing me talking about why you ain’t asked no hard hitting questions – That ain’t what this is,” Harvey said. “I’m throwing a lob. This is an alley-oop for a dunk. Because this administration needs to get the word out of what they’re actually doing and what they’re actually accomplishing, so we can stop all this foolishness about ‘What you doing for Black people?’”
Harris has been making a push for black voters since shortly after she became the Democratic Party’s nominee. She recently made appearances on black media while visiting areas with high black populations.
A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll showed Harris polling at about 70 percent among black voters, which was better than Biden’s numbers, but still far less than the level of black support Democratic candidates have enjoyed in years past.
