It’s time to return to the article series“Random Thoughts on Black Men.” In previous articles, I questioned why some brothas feared dogs, why some brothas wore socks with sandals, and why some brothas felt the need to Hotep or black men’s colorism towards darker-skinned black women. In 2021, I did the third post on this topic, praising brothas for being awesome. In 2022, I gave random thoughts on black men and the LGBTQ community. The LGBTQ community is diverse, and it includes some brothas as well.
Today, I’m revisiting some more random thoughts on black men. This time, it’s about Trump’s politics. A new Trump era has begun in the United States. Liberals and their minions are once again blaming everyone for former vice-president Kamala Harris’s November 2024 election loss, except for the actual Democratic Party itself. One thing in particular that’s been playing out in the media and online is the notion that Black Men all voted for Trump.
In the black community, Trump is a controversial and highly polarizing figure. Although I know some brothas who are fans of Trump, the numbers don’t lie. Trump’s biggest voter base in the United States is still white people. Rich and poor alike, men and women, gay and straight, the 2024 U.S. election results paint a picture that Trump made gains with black and Latino folks compared to 2016. Still, he won because a majority of white people voted for Trump compared to Harris by almost ten points. However, some parts of the black community seem to rock with The Donald. We even saw the First Black President, Barack Obama, being all buddy-buddy with Trump at former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral in December 2024. I’ll address the unique and contentious relationship that Trump has with the black community. Finally, I will discuss my three thoughts on black men and Trump.
MAGA My NAGA
While in 2015-6, Nipsey Hussle and Y.G., along with Macklemore, dropped the song Fuck Donald Trump. Over the years, countless hip-hop legends and current artists feel different about Trump than some of their hip hop counterparts. They support the Orange One. Rich folks love those tax cuts. This list of rap stars that openly support Trump includes Sexyy Red, Da Baby, Blocboy JB, Lil’ Wayne, and 50 Cent, to name a few. The most infamous Trump supporter is Chicago rapper, fashion designer, and mega-producer Kanye West. A man who said the most ignorant shit a black person could ever say. He said, “Slavery was a choice.” Obviously, Ye was a college dropout, but the man who once said, correctly, I might add, “George W. Bush doesn’t care about Black people,” became one of Trump’s biggest supporters. That ain’t a good look Ye. But if we’re being honest, maybe Kanye has always been trash, like my man F.D Signifier laid out in his video essay on his brilliant YouTube Channel.
Another Rapper who’s fallen from grace, Talib Kweli (he got banned from Twitter for harassing black women and allegedly destroyed the career of Neo-Soul singer Res because she wouldn’t have sex with him), once rhymed, “Rappers ain’t the right leaders.” He’s right, they’re not. Many, like J. Cole, don’t bother reading despite their excellent wordplay and command of the English language. Recently, rappers Nelly and Snoop Dogg gotten dragged online for performing at the Trump Inauguration celebration events. These rap stars will sell out their own community if it means more cash for themselves. In the United States, there is only one group of people with class solidarity: the rich. But many rappers will learn that cooning for America 2025 will not save them from racism and hate.
As Kayne West once said, “Even if you in a Benz, you’re still a nigga in a coupe.” That’s true in a white supremacist culture like the United States. Lil’ Wayne, Talib Kweli, and Kanye West were among my favorite rappers at one time. Despite its flaws, I can still be a fan of rap music, but looking to rappers for their political opinions probably isn’t the best thing for black folks. Rap has long strayed away from the days of Public Enemy and Dead Prez. Since the rise of gangsta rap, greed and materialism have consumed hip-hop.
Trump has long been a symbol of status in hip-hop. Along with other rich white men like Bill Gates, J.D. Rockefeller (Think Jay-Z label Rockafella Records),Warren Buffet, and a good deal of mafia crime bosses have reached hero status in hip-hop. These are men who have won the game of capitalism. But it’s a system created by wealthy white men for wealthy white men. So, of course, rich white men will win a game they’ve made the rules for because the rules don’t apply to them. Not the same way they apply to all other non-white people in the country. Kanye’s sad because, at one point, he knew this reality well. He points it out in his 2004 hit song “All Falls Down.”
We buy our way out of jail, but we can’t buy freedom
We’ll buy a lot of clothes, but we don’t really need ‘em
Things we buy to cover up what’s inside
‘Cause they made us hate ourself and love they wealth
That’s why shorty’s holler, “Where the ballers at?”
Drug dealer buy Jordan’s, crackhead buy crack
And the white man get paid off of all of that…
Black Men Voted for Trump
White liberals have been on a terror since Vice President Kamala Harris’ election loss. I’ve long said that black people collectively should not tie our identity to political parties when, historically, both Democrats and Republicans have caused harm to black people. Yes, recently black culture has tied ourselves to the Democratic Party. There’s a history of why this happened. The pressure from President Lyndon Johnson compelled Congress to pass crucial Civil Rights legislation in the 1960s. This was only after the Civil Rights activists and black people as a whole threaten rebellion. This won the DNC almost complete black voter loyalty. The rise of President Barack Obama in the late 2000s only solidified that voter loyalty from a majority black voters. This wasn’t always the case, but statistics show black people are more likely to vote blue than red. There is a strong black radical legacy within the black community, but on the flipside there’s a strong conservative element that runs through it too.
I’ve made fun of black conservatives for having no time period of history to conserve in this nation. Black people didn’t die during the Civil Rights era just to gain the right to vote. Our forefathers and mothers fought and bled to be treated with dignity and respect and gain equal protections under the law. In short, we fought for our human rights. Voting was only one small part of the equation. Unfortunately, the failures of DNC policies in major urban cities and black communities in both the North and the South. That coupled with the disappointment of the Obama administration’s failure to collectively uplift the black community to greater prosperity. These Democratic Party failures have caused a segment of Black people to move to the conservative side of the political spectrum. Several of my Black male acquaintances have switched their support to Trump. I’m not happy about it. I will add most of these men are military veterans.
They escaped the DNC plantation only to join the GOP plantation. Where the chicken is unseasoned and dry, the potato salad has raisins, and Kid Rock is on repeat. Seriously, even if you’re black and you’re a Trump supporter, good for you. You’re still never gonna be white, and you’re just a token to them. Trump doesn’t think much of the black community and has a long racist history against black people and the black community. Black people make up about 14.4% of the U.S. population, and black men make up about 48% of the 48 million plus black people who live in USA. According to the exit polls for the 2024 election, about 24% of black men voted for Trump, while 76% of black men who voted cast their ballot for Vice President Harris.
The liberal media like MSNBC and CNN and their liberal viewers have been blaming black and Latino men (They’re black Latinos, too) for the rise of a second Trump presidency. Not a system that allowed a convicted felon who tried to have his supporters violently overturn the 2020 election results to run for president again. But this is not on black people. The five to six million black men who voted for Trump are far too many, but we don’t have the numbers in this nation to tilt the odds to Trump completely. Those liberals can try to label black men as total sexists, and that’s why we didn’t vote for Harris. That would be fallacy to do so.
A majority of black men didn’t vote for Trump. Also, a majority of white people voted for Trump. Trump even won the white women’s vote again. This new Trump era falls at the foot of white America. I believe most voting Americans vote against their interest. It’s also about 80 to 90 million eligible voters who didn’t bother to vote in the 2024 election. But white women voters, in particular, always seem to side with white supremacy over their own liberation collectively. It’s vile that liberal white people are blaming a small segment of black men for Donald Trump’s ascent to the Presidency. Nope, white folks, it’s your family members who voted for Donnie.
When self-hatred gets deadly
Solomon Henderson was a troubled teenage black boy whose self-hatred turned deadly when he murdered two of his classmates and killed himself in a tragic Nashville school shooting in January 2025. Henderson praise previous mass shooters and called himself a black Nazi. Online Right Wing influencers and media personalities that have gained mainstream recognition since Trump rose to power in 2016 heavily influenced his mentality. The school shooter cited Candace Owens as his inspiration, and he hated being black. Solomon felt rejected by his peers and society, according to his manifesto, all due to what he felt was him being a black. He lashed out violently.
The question to ponder is what happened to Henderson’s family, his teachers, members at his place of worship, or his counselors. Perhaps intervention could have saved his life and the lives of his classmates. What about people like the horrible anti-black Candace Owens? People should sue her for the direct damage her hateful and harmful words have caused in Nashville. She’s a black person who has led the charge of being a token sunken place Negro to promote anti-black sentiment in the media. We already have enough bigoted white folks. We don’t need black Nazi collaborators. This further goes to show white supremacy is a cancer, and it’s spreading. It’s a dark sign of things to come if some of our brothas don’t get it together.
These are three sobering thoughts about black men in the new era of Trump and hate. Yes, I think that we brothas can and should do better. We have to hold the coons accountable for the damage they do to the community. Shout out to Candace Owens and Senator Tim Scott. Anti-black prejudice and hatred are deep within the roots of the United States. The globe consumes and commodifies our culture. We should hold our heads up high, brothas. We’re a group of men copied by people from all over the world, from our brothas on the African continent to youth culture in Asian countries like Thailand, Japan, and China. One just has to hop on RedNote, IG, or TikTok to see the influence of black Americans on global pop culture and music.
There are issues of sexism, colorism, classism, and self-hatred in the black community. Black men must continue working with other community members to address these problems. In the end, it’s still not on black men or all black people why so many Americans continue to embrace the hate and ignorance of the MAGA movement. The MAGA movement didn’t come out of the ether. Its roots are as deep as Jim Crow, the Native American Genocide, and Slavery. The MAGA movement is just the latest manifestation of the long legacy of the United States’ greatest pastime: racism.
Evolving Folks Project 