Survey Says More Black Men Favor Donald Trump

To be perfectly honest, I had to read this survey over a few times to make sure I was reading it correctly.  You see, I truly have a hard time believing any black man, other than Ben Carson and  Pastors Mark Burns and Darrell Scott, would come out and give a favorable reaction to Donald Trump's first year in the White House.

One simple question was asked in the survey conducted by SurveyMonkey:

Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as President?

• Strongly approve
• Somewhat approve
• Somewhat disapprove
• Strongly disapprove

Then you were asked to support your answer with a comment.

According to an article written in The Atlantic, the survey involved more than 600,000 people--although there is no actual breakdown of how many of those interviewed were black.  That is probably part of the problem.  Without knowing the number of black participants, there is no way to get accurate insight.  For example, if only 100 blacks participated and 20 of them said they somewhat approve, that can be interpreted as favorable.

Among African Americans and Hispanics, reactions to Trump depend more on gender than age or education. In every age group, and at every level of education, about twice as many African American men as women gave Trump positive marks. In all, 23 percent of black men approved of Trump’s performance versus 11 percent of black women....black men are one of the few groups for which Trump’s 2017 average approval rating significantly exceeds his 2016 vote share.  From The Atlantic article.

The point is 23 percent of black men who gave Trump a favorable rating for SurveyMonkey OUTNUMBERS the 8 percent support he received from ALL blacks during the November 2016 election.  But once again, it's 23 percent of what????????

Personally, I think this survey is misleading and serves no real purpose in determining how Black America feels about a man who has publicly humiliated them at every turn.  If there are black men out here  (other than the ones mentioned above) who really believe Trump has done a decent job in representing ALL Americans, I invite them to leave a comment on this blog post to state your case.  I always welcome different points of view because, after all, I am a journalist.

Here's another telling statistic from the survey:

In the 2016 election, exit polls indicated Trump's strongest base were non-college educated whites at 66 percent.  In 2017, their support, according to SurveyMonkey, has dropped to 56 percent. And among white Millennials, his disapproval rating is a whopping 76 percent!

Proud Mary is the Coffy and Foxy Brown for the Millennial Generation

As a young adult, I remember going to see a movie called Coffy staring Pam Grier.  Grier portrayed a nurse who was out for vigilante justice against inner city drug dealers after her sister became addicted.  At the time, Coffy was viewed as the female version of Shaft.  She was a bad mother ..SHUT YO MOUTH.

Then came Foxy Brown--another Pam Grier movie---where she played a crime fighter who used her sex appeal to battle the bad guys in and out of the bedroom.


Now more than 40 years later, we have another bad mama jama to hit the screen and we know her as Proud Mary.  Taraji P. Henson, best known for her role as Cookie on the highly rated Fox TV show Empire, portrays, what I will say, "a hit woman with a heart."  The movie opens up with Mary killing a bookie who was over $100K in debt to the mob boss she worked for.  (Mob boss played by Danny Glover).  After she executes him, she discovers a little boy in a back bedroom. She then grabs a photo of him off of a table and leaves the house.  Over the next several weeks (or months perhaps) she keeps tabs on the young man, probably out of guilt, until she finds him lying in an alley after having been beaten.  She then takes him in and begins to nurture him.  Once she discovers the torture he has been subjected to by a rival crime family, she takes matters into her own hands and the killing sprees begin.

Just in the past three years we have seen Taraji  demonstrate her range as an actress,  In 2014, she showed us the lengths any mother would go to to protect herself and her children in the suspense thriller No Good Deed.  She followed that up with  the critically acclaimed, blockbuster movie Hidden Figures, where she brilliantly played a black mathematician.  Now we see her as an assassin who, in spite of all the blood on her hands, spends the entire movie trying to right a wrong she believes she committed when she left the little boy to grow up as an orphan after murdering his father.

The fact that Sony put little or no effort into promoting this movie is disappointing but it also reflects the fact that Hollywood still doesn't believe Blacks, especially females, can carry a lead role with box office success. The other explanation might be that it had no sex scenes in it and I guess white producers think blacks won;t go see a movie if there is no sex in it.  But I will say this:  Taraji was one sexy hit woman!

I recall Atomic Blonde, featuring Charlize Theron, being HEAVILY promoted in 2017 and that movie, in my humble opinion, wasn't nearly as good as Proud Mary.  

Is this a must see movie? Absolutely!  For two reasons:  You will get to see how talented Taraji really is and you will be giving support to another black actress in a leading role.

One more thing....the last three minutes of the movie will make you laugh and cry

My husband and I give this 8 out of 10 stars.