Opinion: Black Vote, Black Power: Why Black Republicans aren’t persuading Black voters

By Keith BoykinWord in Black “Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black, examines the issues, the candidates, and what’s at stake for Black America in the 2024 presidential election.North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson speaks before Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally March 2, 2024, in Greensboro, N.C. In his bid to become North Carolina’s first Black governor, Robinson assails government safety-net spending as a “plantation of welfare and victimhood” that he says has mired generations of Black people in “dependency” and poverty. But the firebrand lieutenant governor’s political rise wouldn’t have been possible without it. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)If you want to know why Black people don’t vote for Republicans, just look at the Black Republicans.America’s top Black Republican, Tim Scott, claims that “woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy.” What on earth is woke supremacy? Scott is so desperate for White approval that he voted against the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, even while three of his White Republican colleagues voted for her.& Then there’s Byron Donalds, who claimed that “the Black family was together” under Jim Crow. Donalds is...