It is quite obvious that the relative lack of Black Male Support for Candidate Kamala Devi Harris, in the November 2024 Presidential Election, does not tell the entire story of the former Vice-President’s electoral loss to the then former President and Republican Party Candidate Donald John Trump. For instance, in the news story right before me presently, on which this news-feature commentary is based, the respective figures of the percentages of African American Female Voters garnered by Ms. Harris and the three previous Democratic Party Presidential Nominees are not provided (See “Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett Says Why She Thinks Kamala Harris Struggled with Black Men in 2024” Tampa Free Press 5/12/25).
Our good guess here is that the former California State Attorney-General did as well as or perhaps even better than former Candidates Obama, Rodham Clinton and Biden among Black Women Voters in last November’s Presidential Election. But what is clear and equally necessary to underscore here is the fact that in each of the previous presidential elections briefly discussed in the previous segment of this two-part series, the circumstances and the socioeconomic and political exigencies were significantly different from one another.
For starters, President Barack Hussein Obama arrived on the scene at a time when the country was in dire straits and, as usual, the Republican Party-sponsored government of President George W. Bush, or the Younger President Bush, had been heavily skewed in favor and on behalf of America’s most filthy rich and powerful, with social welfare programs geared towards the uplift of the most vulnerable and economically deprived, barely sustainable and viable. Consequently, the first term of the Obama Administration had to studiously focus on programs and policies aimed at making the hitherto practically chimerical and the proverbial “American Dream” worth the pursuit of many a hardworking but perennially and systematically marginalized American citizen and resident, both legally documented and undocumented, although President Obama is also known to have deported more civically undocumented immigrants and migrants from the United States than any of his most recent predecessors and successors.
At least the preceding narrative has become the mantra and the calling card of the raison d’etre formulated by the Trump-championed Make America Great Again (MAGA) Crusaders to validate and vindicate its massive and summary deportation of what the “Replacement Theorists” Wing of the Republican Party has come to perceive as a present and a dangerous threat to the continuous numerical and the political domination of the United States by Ethnic and Racially Classified White Americans. It is clearly in a programmatic bid to radically and massively reversing the exponential influx of Non-White Immigrants and Migrants into the United States that recently, the Trump Administration embarked on an ideologically contradictory policy initiative that aimed at having a significant colony of Post-Apartheid Dutch-Descended Afrikaners settle right here in the United States on the officially protected status of “Political Asylees” and “Refugees.”
This foreign policy initiative is in direct response to the long-declared but extremely slow and gradualist decision by the Post-Apartheid Government of the Cyril Ramaphosa-led African National Congress (ANC) to redistribute lands in the country that were forcibly and criminally expropriated by the Racist, White-Settler Regime, incrementally, going as far back as 1652 or thereabouts, when the first wave of European Invaders settled in present-day South Africa. In the process, the far more militarily formidable and redoubtable Dutch-Afrikaner or Boer Settlers managed to hem at least 85-percent of the country’s Indigenous African Majority into roughly 20-percent of the economically viable available arable lands in the country.
Not surprisingly, we are reliably informed by sources close to the Trump Administration, largely Democratic Party Leaders and Policy Experts, that the policy decision to resettle Dutch and Boer-Afrikaners right here in the United States of America, comes precisely at about the same time that the Elon Musk-partnered Trump Administration has embarked on a program that aims for the deportation or the massive repatriation of a considerable colony of Afghan nationals granted asylum status in the wake of the departure of the United States’ military forces that occupied that predominantly Muslim country for some 20 years, beginning in the wake of the September 11, 2001 assault on the United States by the Osama Bin Laden-led Al-Qaeda Terrorist Network.
This policy initiative appears to make perfect sense in the White-Supremacist Imagination of the MAGA Crusaders, if only because the Afghans, although linguistically classified among the Indo-European Group of Languages, for all intents and purposes, are not phenotypically European in the classical Neo-Aryan concept of the term. But, of course, it is far more likely that the Islamic religious and cultural orientation of the Afghan refugees may very well be what is perceived to be a long-term threat to the comfort of the “Whites-Only” oriented Anti-Replacement Theorists and the MAGA Crusaders.
Whatever be the real case scenario, as it were, there are a multiplicity of numerically uncountable forces that insurmountably militated against the electoral success of both CandidateHarris and the Democratic Party, going into the 2024 Presidential Election, not the least bit of which, as Cable News Network’s Chief Media Analyst Brian Stelter aptly observed in a recent masterful presentation, was the publicly visible and the strategically damning precipitous deterioration of the health of a very reluctant President Joseph R, Biden (See “Brian Stelter Biden ‘Can’t Refute’ How His Deteriorating Health Hurt Dems in 2024 Election” Tampa Free Press 5/13/25).
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of English
SUNY-Nassau Community College
Garden City, New York
E-mail: [email protected]
