My experiences with black men and politics are pretty limited. My family is very liberal. Even the evangelicals among us (men and women) usually vote democratic with few exceptions.
There are deeper conversations to be had concerning the "hotep" mentality among a small percentage of black men. These are men who seek to take their "rightful places" among white men in patriarchal brotherhood. It may have something to do with their tolerance of dolt45. But again, we are talking about a tiny percentage of black men.
I don't have any concrete answers for you, but I do have some articles for you to consider.
https://thegrio.com/2020/10/15/trump-campaign-targeting-black-male-voters/
From the article:
This push to attract Black male support is connected to two important political historical moments that point to how conservative beliefs among Blacks are ripe for exploitation by the right. One from the distant past and one more recent.
In Reconstruction, the 15th Amendment extended voting rights to Black men, but all women remained disenfranchised. Legally, Black men entered voting booths to register their political preferences. In actuality, that vote was viewed as a proxy for the entire community.
Historian, Elsa Barkley Brown, explains that many decisions were made communally. Public meetings were held where men, women and children participated with the understanding that Black men would represent those views on their ballot. Additionally, as Black men were harassed, beaten and killed by white mobs, Black women served as their armed escorts to the polls.
When Reconstruction ended and African American male suffrage greatly diminished, Barkley Brown found that Black men began to exclude Black women from power in the community. The loss of leadership opportunities in the public domain led Black men to support more conservative gender roles in the private domain.
When they could no longer hold office, be party leaders or govern — all spaces where women were barred — men replicated their male-dominated leadership experience within the Black community by attempting to exclude women from any institutional authority.
https://www.theroot.com/why-a-black-person-would-support-trump-explained-1790854765
From the article:
That’s … interesting. Can you explain why they’d 1) support a person like this and 2) be willing to actually go on national TV to articulate this support?
Sure! It actually harks back to the civil rights movement. The abolition of slavery, too.
Really? How so?
Well, all of those measures—slavery ending, racial discrimination becoming illegal, etc.—are based on one indisputable fact that, unfortunately, is still considered by some to be a disputable fact: We (black people) are human beings with just as much right to our humanity and everything that entails as everyone else.
We can be smart. We can be talented. We can be creative. We can be—and are—anything any other human can be.
This also means we can also be idiots. We can be dumber than a bag of the world’s dumbest rocks. True equality means that we have equal opportunity to be the dumbest motherf—kers who ever lived, too. And the black Trump supporters are just us exercising our basic human rights.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/heres-what-trumps-black-male-supporters-say-they-see-in-him
From the article:
The president, he says, presents an aura of strength that’s more important than the shortcomings his critics focus on.
“He does know how to make money,” says Grant. “He’s not an honest man and he’s not too bright, but he don’t give a fuck. You know what I’m saying? He’s not the most well-spoken but he stands his ground—and that’s part of being a man. He can do that very well.”
I don't think dolt45 will get the same level of support from black men this time. I am not an expert on the topic. At all. I am, however, a black lady.
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