Black Men Aren't Leaving The Democratic Party. The Democrats Left Us | Opinion

What happens on Tuesday come Election Day remains to be seen, but the Left has already begun to see the writing on the wall. Their usual base just isn't there. And they're not just sounding the alarm; they're laying the groundwork for the blame game to come.

This past week, Sunny Hostin, former federal prosecutor turned co-host of The View, set her sights on white suburban women, referring to them as "roaches voting for Raid" for their inclination to support conservative candidates running on conservative ideals. In doing so, Hostin sought to make the argument that those women were not just voting against their interests but actively working to bring about their own demise.

The truth is the opposite: These women may not be voting in accordance with Sunny Hostin's partisan interests, they are indeed voting in accordance with their own. It was after all progressive policies that have brought us record high inflation, open borders, skyrocketing costs at the grocery store and gas pump, and an America that many mothers feel is far too unsafe to raise their children in.

It's hardly surprising that new polling from the Wall Street Journal shows a 15 point advantage for Republican candidates among white women living in the suburbs.

But it isn't white women alone that the Left is planning to pin their electoral shortfalls on. It's Black men, too.

In a Saturday morning interview with MSNBC, Democrat nominee for governor Stacey Abrams tested out the narrative. When asked about her poll numbers at the end of a lackluster campaign in Georgia, Abrams chose to blame... Black men: for being too dumb, too ignorant, and just not sharp enough to see through so called "disinformation."

"Unfortunately, this year, Black men have been a very targeted population for misinformation," Abrams said. "Not misinformation about what they want but about why they want what they deserve."

As one of those Black men, I'd like to pose a few questions to the woman vying to be the governor of my home state:

Is it misinformation that inflation, according to government statistics, is at a record high?

Is it misinformation that while the cost of consumer goods has risen, according to the Washington Post, wages have failed to keep up?

Is it misinformation that in urban cities across America, it has become a game of Russian Roulette every single time you step out of your door as to whether or not you'll return home alive and unharmed?

The reality is that none of these things are misinformation, so much so that even the liberal corporate media can no longer choose to ignore them.

As to Abrams' point that Black men are confused about what they deserve, I take particular offense to that. Do Black men not deserve to live in safe communities? Do Black men not deserve affordable consumer goods? Do Black men not deserve the respect of progressive politicians, whom up until recently, they supported nearly unequivocally and almost always without challenge?

Let me answer those questions: Yes. Yes, yes, yes.

We are tired of being taken for granted. We are tired of being used and abused and being told to shut up when we get too "vocal." We're tired of being told to aimlessly follow. We are tired of being slaves on a plantation.

And we are ready to be free, to be liberated, and to be respected.

Come November 9, progressives can blame us all they want. But it wasn't Black men that left the Democrat Party.

They left us.

C.J. Pearson is the president of Free Thinker Project.

The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.