Fox Business host Charles Payne challenged Vice President Kamala Harris regarding her recent efforts to connect with Black men and boost her declining poll numbers ahead of the November 5th presidential election.
Payne contended that Harris, along with other influential Democrats like former President Barack Obama, was insulting Black men by suggesting that sexism was the sole reason for their lack of support for her presidential campaign.
Charles is not playing anymore. He is calling out Kamala 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/dKwUuu4E2A
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“America’s Newsroom” anchor Bill Hemmer kicked off the conversation by paraphrasing Obama’s recent comments, in which he appeared to be trying to insult black men into supporting Harris: “Black men have to get over the fact that you got a woman on the ticket and are you afraid to vote for her, is basically what he did, and challenge them.”
“A damn shame,” Payne replied. “It’s so insulting. I really — could you imagine a white man talking down to black people like that, particularly black men? That’s our issue? Women? It’s not the fact that I don’t have a job or my job is not existing or I’m in a world where, by the way, progressives are erasing me from movies, from billboards, from opportunities.”
“The Democratic Party, particularly progressives in Hollywood, Madison Avenue, Washington, D.C., Wall Street, they have erased the black man. There’s no opportunities for black men anywhere in their world, and I think a lot of it centers around what they perceive to be too much toxic masculinity. They hate black masculinity,” Payne continued. “They hate it, and they’ve gone to war with it, and black men have noticed it — and guess what? They’re saying, ‘We’re not going to take it anymore.’”
Payne further stated that Black men were fed up with being “pimped,” citing an instance where Black individuals were involved in a state’s campaign to legalize marijuana, yet all the Black applicants were ultimately denied licenses to sell it.
“They’re not wanted in the white, progressive world,” he said “They’re not wanted, and they’re waking up and pushing back.”
He wrapped up by criticizing Harris’ proposed plan to create more “opportunities” for Black men, arguing that it was merely the same “bag of tricks” Democrats had been using for years and asserting that none of it would truly make a difference.
