PERSPECTIVE: Is misogynoir preventing some Black men from voting for Harris?

For a 2024 presidential election projected to be decided by only a few thousand votes each in seven competitive “battleground states,” Black men have been spotlighted as the key demographic group that could decide the election.& President Barack Obama [2009-2017] lamented that some Black men were about to sit out the election and not choose Kamala Harris as the first woman – and first Black and Asian Indian woman – U.S. president. Meanwhile, Republican challenger and 45th U.S. president Donald Trump [2017-2021] said he was making inroads with young men, specifically young Black men who promised to vote for him Nov. 5.During the 2020 election, which Trump lost, the former president counted double-digit support from Black voters. Democrat Joe Biden won. And a near handful of entertainment industry Black male influencers including Ice Cube, Lil Wayne and 50 Cent said they endorsed or supported Trump in 2020.Obama’s small-group scold of Black males was criticized as patronizing, elitist, and scapegoating by pundits, yet polling and some anecdotal voices from the streets and from disaffected Black voices affirm that some misogyny and patriarchal behavior could be at play among Black voting-age American men.Musician/rapper/comedian Lord Jamar appeared on the 765,000-subscriber “The Art of...