Biden losing support of Black Americans, identity politics is to blame


In exit polls from the 2020 U.S. presidential elections, 87% of Black American voters reported voting for Joe Biden. Today, however, Biden’s overwhelming endorsement by Black voters is beginning to erode. Recently, as many as 20% of Black voters told pollsters that they would consider voting for Donald Trump.

Straight Arrow News contributor Star Parker expects that Black support for Biden will continue to erode. Parker blames Democrats for focusing too much on race and identity politics.

So, President Biden is losing support among Black voters. The next question is: Why?

Well, there’s a quote from a Democrat operative in a recent political article that summed it up. One reason, he said, [is that] we’re treating them like their only issue is racial issues. And not all of us. But to some extent, some of us have moved past that.

That right there, that racial issues are all that matters to Blacks, as if Black people don’t care about anything else that’s critical to all Americans, such as the economy, health care, education, crime. Oh, and what about the crisis at the border or abortion? Yeah, there are some issues that uniquely impact Black Americans, abortion being one of them. But there are other issues that impact all of us.

And by the time we get to where we can actually make these discussions permanent about how America works, the Democrat Party has shown that the only thing that they are interested in is identity politics. The color of one’s skin seems to be the only thing that they care about, and why Blacks should keep voting for them. And they’re trying to hammer Blacks into believing this too.