While campaigning in Pittsburgh for Harris, Obama spoke to a group about support for her, particularly focusing on the apparent lack of voter enthusiasm toward her from black men. The former president, the previous leader of the free world, weaponized race and division to drum up political support for Harris.

“My understanding, based on reports I’m getting from campaigns and communities, is that we have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running,” Obama said. 

“Now, I also want to say that seems to be more pronounced with the brothers,” the former president added.

And the primary reason Obama thinks black men should be voting for Harris? Because of Harris’s race and ethnicity, of course, and the fact that she supposedly “grew up” like them and “understands the struggles and pain and joy that comes from those experiences.”

“On the one hand, you have somebody who grew up like you, knows you, went to college with you, understands the struggles and pain and joy that comes from those experiences,” Obama said. 

Because, as Obama undoubtedly knows, the majority of black people grew up like Harris, who is the child of two academic scholars and professors who spent their formative teenage years living in Quebec. Rumor has it that Tupac, Harris’s admitted favorite hip-hop artist, was working on rap, before he was murdered, about life in the rough and tough streets of Montreal (sarcasm).

As they say in French Canadian, “C’est la vie.”

Setting Obama’s fanciful comparisons aside, take note of this hypocrisy. Now, imagine, if you will, if former President Donald Trump, or any Republican, particularly any white Republican, spoke of white males needing to get out the vote and vote for a particular political candidate because of their skin color, race, ethnicity, or cultural background. 

“White people need to get out and vote for Trump because they’re just like Trump. Trump knows white people, he went to college with white people, and he understands the struggles and pain and joys that come with being white,” a hypothetical comparable statement reads.

Approximately half the country would lose their minds. Democrats would proclaim it to be racist and fearmonger that things such as “white supremacy” were on the rise. The chaos and destruction of the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020 would look like the work of amateurs in comparison.

Yet when Obama does it, and the focus is on black men, all the people clamoring for racial equality and the end of supposed racial injustices in the 21st century turn a blind eye or, in many cases, openly welcome such prejudices.

However, this is what Democrats do and have always done. They weaponize race and division to mobilize political support. They create an aggrieved racial class to get votes. The political policies they advocate are awful and move the country further away from its founding principles each day, so they stoke the flames of racial strife to generate votes. They constantly talk about the societal ills of racism but want racism to exist and survive so they can rile up the emotions of voters every election. 

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Why? Because in the era of diversity, equity, and inclusion, in a time of supposed racial reckoning, only left-wingers and Democrats can get away with such bigoted and discriminatory suggestions that advise black people to vote for a political candidate because that candidate is black.

Democrats, and particularly Democrats such as Obama and Harris, want and need their voters to keep racism alive. They condemn racism to the public but work to keep it alive in private. Racial division and animosity are at the core of their very political existence. It’s their primary political energy source that they siphon every time they need to create a narrative or win an election.