Columnist Charles Blow of the New York Times has been exploring why black men
in the Peach State and elsewhere are not as supportive of the Democratic
Party as they used to be. Mr. Blow cites a 2019 quotation from Mondale
Robinson, founder of an advocacy group called the Black Male Voter Project:

I wound up doing campaign work for a long time, and one thing I noticed
right away was that most of the people who determine what�s said about
politics generally, but progressive politics more specifically, are
white men. The messaging they convey doesn�t speak to my lived
experience as a Black man. It�s not motivating to me or to the brothas
I know � uncles, cousins, friends, men like my father.

Mr. Blow also cites recently released findings from the Pew Research Center
regarding an October 2021 survey of black Americans. Pew researchers Kiana
Cox and Khadijah Edwards report:

Though majorities of Black women (65%) and men (56%) say police
brutality is an extremely big problem for Black people living in the
U.S. today, Black women are more likely than Black men to hold this
view. When it comes to criminal justice, Black women (56%) and men (51%)
are about equally likely to share the view that the prison system should
be completely rebuilt to ensure fair treatment of Black people. However,
Black women (52%) are slightly more likely than Black men (45%) to say
this about policing. On the matter of police funding, Black women (39%)
are slightly more likely than Black men (31%) to say police funding in
their communities should be increased. On the other hand, Black men are
more likely than Black women to prefer that funding stay the same (44%
vs. 36%). Smaller shares of both Black men (23%) and women (22%) would
like to see police funding decreased.

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Let's go Brandon!