Nina Turner Hits Out at Obama for Accusing Black Men of Insufficiently Supporting Kamala Harris: ‘For Him to Single Out Black Men Is Wrong’

Former Ohio state senator Nina Turner criticized former President Barack Obama on Thursday for accusing Black men of not sufficiently supporting Vice President Kamala Harris.

At a Harris campaign field office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, Obama said, “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 noted that the underwhelming support for Harris seemed “to be more pronounced with the brothers,” before suggesting that some men just weren’t “feeling the idea of having a woman as president” and were “coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that.”

Reacting to Obama’s remarks on CNN, Turner – who previously served as the co-chair of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) 2020 presidential campaign – questioned, “Why are Black men being lectured to? Why are Black men being belittled in ways that no other voting group?”

She continued:

Now, a lot of love for former President Obama, but for him to single out Black men is wrong, and some of the Black men that I have talked to have their reasons why they want to vote a different way, and even if some of us may not like that, we have to respect it. So unless President Barack Obama is gonna go out and lecture every other group of men from other identity groups, my message for Democrats is don’t bring it here to Black men who by and large don’t vote much differently from Black women. As a politician, we should be trying to get all voters to vote, and hopefully there are a few good men out there who do care about the stripping away of some of women’s bodily autonomy.

Turner concluded, “But this is wrong for President Obama. It is a wrong course for the Harris-Walz campaign to lay at the feet of Black men when they have their reasons.”

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