Why Some Black Men Don’t Like Kamala Harris

(And what the Mandarins of Political Correctness have Purged from the Nation’s Discourse)

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David Gottfried

From 24:14 to 25:50, Robert Kennedy succinctly stated what our most important goal should be regarding the Black “ghettos” of Urban America.   He said it better than anyone has said it since.

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At the outset, I must say that Trump is a Capital asshole.  If I didn’t note my contempt for Trump, people would assume that my criticisms of liberal Democrats are simply Trumpian trash.  Trump is trash, but that doesn’t mean that Democrats are uniformly saintly and golden.  

Over the past few days, we have heard news reports to the effect that black male support for Kamala is substantially lower than Black support has historically been for Democrats, and Barack Obama has seen fit to chastise Black Men for not supporting Kamala with overwhelming and unqualified abandon. 

I propose that two problems deter black male support for Kamala.  One of these issues pertains to the very wide chasm between the employment prospects for black men and black women.  The other issue pertains to long-standing psycho-sexual issues afflicting many black Americans.

Black Women Do Immensely Better than Black Men in Getting Jobs, Professional attainment, and in the all-consuming American rat-race that William James called worshipping at the altar of the “Bitch Goddess Success.”

White people are afraid of black criminality.   More specifically, many white people distance themselves from black men because they fear physical violence or theft.  They are more afraid of black men than black women because black men are stronger, more muscular, etc.   Because of white fear of black men, whites will often hire black women but won’t hire black men.  

Also, to get ahead in American capitalism, one must be aggressive, a “go getter,” quick to speak up, fight a battle, start an argument. However, when black men are aggressive, whites fear black aggression and violence.   Therefore, black men are caught in what some psychologists may call a “schizophrenogenic double bind”:  They are damned if they do; they are damned if they don’t.  If black men are not aggressive, they are castigated as wimpish pushovers without the requisite might or machismo to earn dollars for a firm.    If black men are aggressive, white people fear black aggression and violence.

Meanwhile, what do liberals have to say ?  Since about 1970, we have been hearing the incessant drone that women are allegedly suffering.  Of course, many women do suffer, and many women suffer immensely.   However, liberals seem deaf, dumb and blind to the enormous gaps, in professional status and attainment, between black men and women.  

Actually, liberals are deaf, dumb and blind to problems afflicting all men, black and white.  For example, in almost all universities, the number of females vastly exceeds the number of males.  Of course, there are more females than males in the general population, but the discrepancy between the male and female populations does not come close to explaining the enormous differential between the number of males and females matriculating in higher education.   In some universities, the student body is 60 percent female.  For various reasons, men are alienated from school and the most common paths toward socio-economic advances.   When was the last time one of our gallant lady politicians talked about this ?  Hell, when was the last time you heard a male politician talk about this ?

In any event, when  black men hear that we should cheer and shout and wet our panties (to certain feminists, we are all women or we should all emulate women) with joy over the candidacy of Kamala, some black men are probably more than a little bit ill.  Millions of black men are rotting in American prisons (And Kamala was a prosecutor who was opposed to reducing criminal penalties for minor drug offenses), and they are supposed to be ecstatic, and wet their honorary panties, because Kamala is on the fast track to the Whitehouse ?   No way.   Many black men must resent this decadent, anti-male variant of “Progressive” politics.      

     

Why Some Black Men Worship Their Mothers and Beat their Wives and Girlfriends – and Kamala

I am sure that many of my antagonists are screeching as they read this:  “David, don’t you realize that so many  black men are bastards, are beating their wives and girlfriend to death.” 

I know that some black men are violent toward their wives and girlfriends.   I propose that much of this violence stems from severe conflicts between boys and their mothers.

A very large proportion of black homes are Fatherless.  It wasn’t always like this.  For example, data from New York City shows that in 1963, 22 percent of black children, in Central Harlem, were born out of wedlock.  By 1970, more than two thirds of black children, born in Central Harlem, were born out of wedlock. (I don’t remember where I read this; I may have read this in one of Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s allegedly infamous essays, which discussed black families, which aroused the undying enmity of “progressives.”)

Black Mothers, deserted by their men, took care of their children on their own.  The black community, and black  children, lauded and lionized these mothers as selfless towers of strength and sacrifice.  Indeed, ever since the “Color Purple” graced the Silver Screen,  there has been only one narrative and it goes like this:  Black women are martyrs akin to Mother Mary, and there is no place for complexity or nuance in this discourse, and the pain that black men endure is never properly discussed.   

Little black boys all over America adore their mommas to death.   Ordinary Oedipal attachment to the mother is dramatically magnified because the boy becomes his mother’s main man, and the boy is naturally grateful to his mother for her ceaseless, strenuous efforts to put a roof over his head and food on his plate.  

But the mother’s love is coupled with hatred toward the man who left her.  The Mother often directs her hatred toward the only male left, her son who has become a punching bag for the sins of his Father.  She will scream and rave and rant that his father was a mean bastard and suggest that since her son is male, her son is also a mean bastard, and probably stupid too.   I had a black friend with a huge scar over his eye because his mother nearly beat him to death when he was a child.   Once, I was in Kmart, on Christmas eve, and I saw and suffered to hear a black Momma threatening to kill her children for getting on her nerves. And if the Black momma is not contemptuous and cruel, she is confining and castrating.  In law school, on the eve of finals, I remember a black male classmate who suffered his mother’s decision to literally accompany him to law school to stand over him and “help” him study.  (In the library, she was quizzing him about legal issues that might come up on the exam.)   

The black male, after  a time, may be burning-up with resentment and hostility toward his black momma.   He cannot express or acknowledge this hostility as his mother is a sainted soul.  So what does he do ?  He beats his wife and girlfriends.  And eventually he leaves the home.  And the problem repeats.

And these psychosexual issues are anathema to feminism (Feminism cannot tolerate any criticisms of mothers).   And as Kurt Vonnegut put it, “And so it goes.”   And the problem goes on and on and on.  And the problem will never be solved until the psychologists at the helm of the educational-welfare-liberal triumvirate of lily-livered ladylike studies are replaced by people who are not afraid to delve into the real traumas and turbulence of the psyche.