Source:Jesse Dollemore talking to Garrison Hayes about African-American Republicans.

Source:The New Democrat

“Jesse is joined by Garrison Hayes to talk about the confounding issue of Black people who vote for Republicans and who look the other way about Donald Trump’s vile behavior and the policy objectives of the Republican Party, which endeavors to oppress and strip hard-fought civil rights away from them.”

From Jesse Dollemore

I think the most intelligent thing that Jesse Dollemore said (and perhaps the only intelligent thing that Dollemore said here) was that no group of Americans and I would add no group of Americans of any race or ethnicity, is monolithic.

Obviously not all European-Americans are Republicans. The current President of the United States is an Irish-Catholic. Not all African-Americans are Democrats. Senator Tim Scott before he decided that he wanted Donald Trump to select him for Vice President, was basically a pragmatic, center-right, African-American Republican, from South Carolina.

I think one’s politics regardless of race or ethnicity, has a lot do with where they come from and how they were raised, as well as their own personal experiences.

If you come from a rural background and money was very tight for you when you were growing up, perhaps just barely got out of high school, maybe managed to get come vocational training, or perhaps where in a military for a short stint looking for a better life, but managed to get yourself a good blur-collar job when you finished school, you are probably going to be on the cultural-right in America. And you are probably not a big fan of immigration and multiculturalism either.

But if you come from an urban or suburban background and come from a good middle class family, you grew up with both parents, both parents have a good education, and you get a good education for yourself, doesn’t mean you’ll be a Democrat, necessarily, because someone of that background could be a center-right Republican, whose a Republican for economic reasons, but you are not a cultural warrior.

Or, someone with a metropolitan background growing up, could be a JFK, perhaps a Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, even a Joe Biden Democrat, whose a Democrat, but not a left-wing Democrat. But a Democrat who believes in liberal democracy, as well as opportunity and responsibility for all.

Again, African-Americans aren’t monolithic. Things like economic opportunity, education, including school choice, safe streets, accountability, are just as popular with metropolitan African-Americans, as they are with European-Americans. If it wasn’t for MAGA and the far-right in general in America, you would have a Republican Party not just competing for African-American voters, but Democrats would be forced to either change their politics, or get more European-Americans to vote for them.

Also, I guess this is the 2nd good point that Jesse Dollemore made. I think you have to distinguish with African-Americans who like Republican economic policies, versus the African-American wannabe political reality TV stars, who are simply trying to get rich off of MAGA and make a name for themselves. The Candace Owens, the Byron Donalds and others. Minus MAGA, Byron Donalds is probably just a back-benching U.S. Representative right now, that no one has heard of outside of his district.