In a recent interview with radio host, Charlamagne Tha God, he gave advice to all black voters for the upcoming election to “unlearn” any fear for criticizing the Democratic Party and it’s advantageous to question how the country should be governed.
Senior data analyst Harry Enten of CNN recently reported that former President Trump is “careening towards a historic performance” with black voters as President Biden continues to lose ground with young African Americans. “The Young Turks” host Cent Uygur interviewed Charlamagne and posed the question, what would be “one thing” he would like African Americans to “unlearn?” Charlamagne answered he would like black voters to “be able to criticize” the Democratic Party without any fear especially since the black community overwhelming supports Democrat candidates and their policies.
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“I think a lot of us know this, but we are not what propaganda has made us seem to be to the world … I guess if we’re talking about politics, I’ll keep it on politics. I think that we should be able to criticize the Democratic Party, right, without people labeling us anything else. If we are the people who vote for them at the high number that we vote for them, we should be able to criticize them and know what is in our best interest to do for the country come November,” Charlamagne told Uyger. “We will not get any real change, we will not get the things that we want if we don’t push them and if we don’t criticize them.”
“So I want us to unlearn just going along to get along with the Democratic Party, or any party for that matter because I don’t feel like black people in particular should be beholden to any particular party. I think that we should only be voting our interests, and we should be voting for issues that directly impact us as a community,” he said. “So to answer the question, I want us to unlearn being afraid to criticize the Democratic Party, because if we have supported them the way that we’ve supported them all of these years, we should absolutely, positively, be able to criticize them and they should listen and move how we want them to move.”
Charlamagne also criticized Democrats for their “goofy” actions and lack of engagement with black voters in urban areas which they represent. “Get off the hill and get to the hood,” Charlamagne said. “Those black people on the hill got y’all doing corny, goofy stuff … And they got y’all, you know, like, one thing about those elected officials, especially the Democrats, man, they talk about the people they don’t even talk to. You know what I’m saying? And they claim to talk for the people they don’t even talk to.”