On Thursday morning, MSNBC’s Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough offered a blunt assessment of the role misogyny played in the 2024 election, specifically pointing to the challenges faced by Vice President Kamala Harris. During an impassioned conversation with Rev. Al Sharpton, Scarborough argued that the loss of Harris to Donald Trump was, in large part, due to deeply ingrained misogyny — a problem that spans across various racial and ethnic groups.
Scarborough emphasized that Democrats need to face the uncomfortable reality that misogyny isn’t just a problem among white men. He made it clear that while many may want to point to a specific demographic, the issue extends beyond that.
“It’s not just misogyny from white men,” Scarborough said. “It’s misogyny from Hispanic men, it’s misogyny from black men — things we’ve all been talking about — who do not want a woman leading them,”
The conversation quickly took a deeper turn as Scarborough noted potential racial dynamics within the Hispanic community, suggesting that some Hispanic voters might have reservations about a Black woman, like Harris, occupying the nation’s highest office.
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“There might be race issues with Hispanics who don’t want a Black woman as president of the United States,” he said, acknowledging Harris’ Jamaican-American father and Indian-American mother.
Sharpton, for his part, agreed with Scarborough’s analysis and further illuminated the complexities of racial and gender dynamics. “Some of the most misogynistic things I’ve heard, going on this ‘Get Out the Vote’ tour, came from Black men,” Sharpton confessed. “So you’re absolutely right, it’s not simplistic.”
Scarborough also criticized what he sees as the Democratic Party’s tendency to oversimplify these issues, often focusing on narrow narratives about race and gender. “The Democratic Party — I’ve always found — when you’re sitting around talking, they love to vulcanize everybody into these separate groups,” Scarborough argued. “They just say, ‘Oh, white people don’t like women and Black people.’ No! It’s time for Democrats to say … a lot of Hispanic voters have problems with Black candidates.”
The candid discussion on Morning Joe illuminated how complex and multifaceted issues of misogyny and race can be, challenging both parties to confront uncomfortable truths in order to move forward. As Scarborough and Sharpton both pointed out, the struggle for women — especially women of color — in American politics is far from simple and requires an honest reckoning across all demographics.
Watch the conversation below:
Joe Scarborough blaming blacks and Hispanics as being s*xist
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— Mendy Krauss (@mendy_personal) November 6, 2024
