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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

BET Founder: Blacks Voters Get ‘Minimal Returns’ From Dems

'Joe Biden was not an inspiring candidate for many black Americans....'

Black Entertainment Television founder Robert Johnson said black voters turned out in record numbers for President Donald Trump on Tuesday because the Democratic Party offers “minimal returns” to the African American community.

“I think black Americans are getting a little bit tired of delivering huge votes for the Democrats, and seeing minimal return in terms of economic wealth and closing the wealth gap, the job creation and job opportunities,” Johnson told CNBC. “And Joe Biden was not an inspiring candidate for many black Americans. And some of them stay at home. Some of them voted for Trump.”

Early analyses of voting data suggest Trump drew more black voters this year than he did in 2016, increasing his share by between 2 and 4 percentage points.

Black voters still overwhelmingly favored Biden, but Trump’s gains among black men was especially impressive.

Trump appealed to them the night before the election by pointing to Biden’s past record on criminal justice:

Johnson’s frustration with the Democratic Party is that it isn’t liberal enough.

He has endorsed $14 trillion in reparations for slavery and has demanded that Democrats provide “access to wealth and income.”

“What I believe is that mainstream media and the white, liberal population in general, the only thing that they address the black community on is what I call placebo paternalism. We will say nice things about you. We will talk about your suffering, we will say that there’s racism throughout the land,” Johnson said. “But when you go to the core issues of what black Americans really need, that’s access to capital, access to wealth and income.”

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