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Former President Obama is touring battleground states as polls show an increasing number of black men are dissatisfied with the state of the country and are going to vote for former President Donald Trump. During a Harris-Walz campaign stump Thursday in Pittsburgh, Obama gave a blistering critique of Trump and urged black men to show up for Harris:
"We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all corners of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running," Obama began.
"Now, I also want to say that that seems to be more pronounced with the brothers. So if you don't mind – just for a second, I've got to speak to y’all and say that when you have a choice that is this clean: When on the one hand, you have somebody who grew up like you, went to college with you understands the struggles [and the] pain and joy that comes from those experiences…"
"[Whereas on the other hand you have somebody who] has consistently shown disregard, not just for the communities, but for you as a person – and you are thinking about sitting out?
"Part of it makes me think – and I’m speaking to men directly – part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that."
Rae Easley is founder and chair of ChicagoRED, which has the goal of moving citizens away from the liberal progressive failures that are bankrupting that city.
"He shouldn't have said anything to black people. We didn't ask for him; nobody sent for him," she tells AFN. "To resurrect him and to bring him back as some paternalistic figure who needs to come and get black people in check? That has massively backfired on them."
And Easley contends people aren't buying what the former president is saying – specifically, asking why "the brothers" aren't supporting Harris who is "somebody who grew up like you" and "understands the struggles" about those experiences.
"And people are like, Wait a minute … she's an Indian woman who was raised wealthy in Canada. We have nothing in common with this woman," she suggests. "But they're trying to force it – and that's what makes it offensive.
"Any time you impose an idea on a group of people rather than letting them accept it organically, it's always going to be met with pushback."
Obama made the battleground state of Pennsylvania the first stop of his campaign tour with less than four weeks until Election Day. A spokesperson for Pennsylvania Team Trump told Fox News things can't be going well for Democrats if they have to "fly in Barack Obama from his $12 million Martha's Vineyard estate."
