Democrats, You Need Black Friends

Garrick McFadden
7 min readJul 1, 2024

Your white friends are still going to vote for Trump, even if we put Jesus, our Lord and Savior, on the ballot. Biden is not the problem; it is your white friends and family members who are going to vote for Trump.

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If you watched the debate and are currently finding yourself trapped on a never-ending treadmill of dread, conjuring in your mind all the horrible things that will happen if Trump is elected, allow me to provide you with some stern words and some hope.

Donald Trump will not win this election in 2024 because America will reject his brand of fascism.

Once again, black people will come and save this Union.

It will not be white people, it will not be immigrants, it will not be Latinos or Asians, it will not be Arabs or Muslims, it will be black people.

It is our damnation. Promehus’s torment is the eagle and his liver, Sisphuys’s hell is the rock never making it to the top, and for black people it is saving a nation that has never even tried to treat us with respect or provide us with dignity.

Yet, this is our mission black folk: we must save America again.

How am I to make such proclamations? I ran for the House in AZ01 in 2018; once I entered the race, the DCCC put the race on its radar and started funding it. In 2020, I was…

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Garrick McFadden

I am a civil-rights attorney. I write about #whiteness, #racism, #hiphop, policing & politics. https://gamesqlaw.com/index.php/thoughts/