'You Can't Dangle Carrots': Growing Number of Black Male Voters Are Fed Up With Biden's Patronization

Mike Miller reporting for RedState 

Poor Joe Biden. It's not his fault. What's he supposed to do? He's just continuing six decades of Democrat Party patronization of Black America. I wrote that with tongue planted firmly in cheek, of course. 

Setting Biden aside for a minute, the Democrat Party has pandered to black Americans for six decades, beginning with President Lyndon Johnson's disastrous War on Poverty. As Johnson declared on Jan 8, 1964, the purpose of the War on Poverty was "…not only to relieve the symptoms of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it." Sixty years later, how'd that turn out in America's inner cities?

The ugly secret is that Democrat politicians have pandered mightily to the nation's black population, never intending to keep the hollow promises they've made, year after year, decade after decade — taking placation and appeasement to a level previously unseen. Joe Biden is continuing that tradition.

The Democrat Party has for decades masterfully convinced a majority of black Americans to just think about -- even if they (Democrats) don't keep their promises -- how worse off they'd be if they didn't have the Dems to protect them from the Republicans.

It now appears that a growing number of black voters are no longer convinced.

As reported by the Washington Post on Saturday, black male voters in Michigan are increasingly frustrated with Biden and the Democrat Party, citing the millions of dollars the administration has sent to Ukraine and calling it a "slap in the face."

Demar Byas, who lives in Pontiac, Michigan, told the Post:

If you can send $800 million to Ukraine, you can’t tell me you can’t facilitate that student loan situation whatsoever. Student loans, [and] homelessness, some of that could have been eradicated. But then we sent that money overseas.

Kerry Tolbert, another Pontiac resident, agreed with Byas. 

It’s a slap in the face [from] this administration when you watch billions go to other countries and there’s no resources for people right here.

Setting aside the issue of student loan "forgiveness," when Democrat politicians' promises, year after year, decade after decade, amount to nothing more than lip service, affected people get frustrated. Killian-Bey, 59, told the Post that the Democrat Party needed to give him substance (emphasis, mine).

You can’t dangle carrots and assume we’ll vote for you just because we don’t like the other platform.

Norman Clement, the founder of the Detroit Change Initiative, explained:

All of a sudden, at the last minute in August or September, it’s ‘Black men, can you help save us again?’ Black men are not running to the Republican Party. What they’re doing is sitting at home, doing their own thing, creating their own ecosystems and initiatives. At this point, I have no hope for Democrats to speak to our needs.

So how bad is it for Biden? Potentially terrible. Here's more:

Political analysts say Killian-Bey’s views illustrate a waning enthusiasm among Black voters, particularly Black men, toward Biden and the Democratic Party. 

A series of polls in recent months have alarmed party strategists and liberal organizers and reportedly frustrated the president, who is facing a tight race for reelection against former president Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner.

A New York Times-Sienna poll in late October found that 22 percent of Black voters in six battleground states, including Michigan, would support Trump if the general election were held today, while 71 percent said they would support Biden.

Trump won the support of just 8 percent of Black voters in the 2020 election and 6 percent in 2016, according to the Pew Research Center’s validated voter study. 

Although few strategists believe Trump could get 20 percent of the Black vote in the next election, even a small uptick would spell trouble for Biden, especially in swing states with large shares of Black voters, such as Michigan, where Biden edged Trump 50.6 percent to 47.8 percent in 2020. 

A more realistic danger for Biden, political strategists say, is that dissatisfaction among some Black voters may drive them to sit out in November.

And there it is. First, even a small uptick could spell trouble for Biden in key swing states. Second, if a substantial number of black voters sit out the November election, Biden could also be toast.

Michael Tyler, the communications director for the Biden campaign, responded to the Post with typical Democrat rhetoric.

We know we can’t take any voters for granted, especially black voters, [and] young voters, who’ve been a crucial bloc for the Biden-Harris coalition. We have work to do to remind these communities of what we’ve accomplished for them in the first three years.

Uh-huh. Just like Team Biden has to "remind" the rest of America how good they've had it during the disastrous presidency of Joe Biden. Please.