Michigan Dem activist rips Harris for not focusing on black voters — relying on ‘fake civil rights leaders’ and ‘corrupt officials’

A Michigan-based Democratic activistic is calling retired Vice President Kamala Harris and her run for failing to triumph complete achromatic voters successful nan Mitten State by harping connected nan rumor of abortion alternatively of nan system — and relying connected “corrupt” section officials, “fake civilian authorities leaders for illustration Al Sharpton,” and Hollywood stars to dispersed its message.

Arthur Woodson — a Flint resident who has met pinch Harris, 60, and collaborated pinch nan Biden White House arsenic part of its “Cancer Moonshot” initiative — tore into nan Democratic nominee’s squad for its losing connection and deficiency of crushed crippled successful Michigan during a telephone question and reply pinch The Post connected Thursday.

According to Woodson, nan Harris-Walz run ignored really President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans were connecting pinch achromatic voters and other taste groups successful Flint connected what they considered nan number 1 rumor successful nan 2024 election: nan economy.

Other section matters, Woodson said, were besides fixed short shrift by nan Democratic team.

“When she [Harris] came to Flint, she didn’t say thing astir nan water, thing astatine all,” noted Woodson, who has advocated for federally-funded studies to research links betwixt lead-contaminated h2o and crab successful his hometown. “Then you had group saying she isn’t coming pinch a scheme for nan African-American community. What is she gonna do for us?”

“Then you had nan group talking astir erstwhile she was a DA and a charismatic [in California] and she locked up a batch of achromatic people,” he added.

“People [are] tired of Democrats,” Woodson said astatine different point. “Because they get successful powerfulness and they maltreatment power. But you want to show america that nan Republicans are racist? No, no. It’s nan Democratic Party.”

Democrats’ abortion-focused run was besides off-base, according to Woodson — moreover pinch nan Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court determination overturning nan nationwide legalization of nan process conscionable 2 years ago.

“President Trump said it to her [in nan debate], ‘Hey, we did distant pinch Roe versus Wade, but fto nan group successful nan states benignant it out,'” he explained. “In Michigan, it’s ineligible for abortions. So why are you focusing successful connected that present successful Michigan?”

In Genesee County, which comprises Flint and different townships, Trump mislaid to Harris but gained more than 5,000 votes from his 2020 predetermination nonaccomplishment to President Biden.

Woodson first shared immoderate of his beardown views connected nan Harris campaign’s failures in an hour-long Facebook livestream connected Wednesday greeting aft Trump’s projected victory.

“I’m conscionable telling y’all what I spot and perceive connected nan streets, and this is why nan Democratic Party cannot triumph nary more,” he declared. “The group successful nan hood, man, you only get a small market container afloat of nutrient now. People don’t want to perceive thing other extracurricular of that. … Gas [prices] precocious arsenic hell.”

“But they chose to speak astir chiefly abortions,” he added. “Her squad was a backwards team, man. Her squad was a ass-backwards team. … They were successful an echo chamber.”

In 1 high-profile miscue, some nan Harris run and Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer smeared Howell, located astir halfway betwixt Detroit and Lansing, arsenic a “KKK” city up of an August Trump rally location — despite Biden having besides visited nan metropolis successful 2021.

“Man, they said Trump [had] for illustration anemic women astir him,” Woodson besides quipped of different onslaught statement utilized connected nan erstwhile president. “She had a full bunch of weak, weak-ass men astir her, for real.”

The Harris run besides grounded connected nan second-most important rumor to astir voters — immigration, Woodson told The Post.

“All nan achromatic group successful Chicago — it’s each complete Facebook, that they’re fighting because, you know, forbidden immigrants are getting money and taking nan resources from nan group successful that community,” he said.

“I still walk retired water, I still walk retired nutrient [to underprivileged people] — and I started seeing a ample number of overseas group successful nan statement … wherever they couldn’t moreover speak English,” he said. “Then, erstwhile I’m knocking connected doors, they’re successful houses wherever it’s being refurbished, but nan group present successful Flint can’t moreover get their tile done.”

Harris formed nan tie-breaking ballot for Biden’s American Rescue Plan successful 2021, which Woodson pointed retired included conscionable $94.7 cardinal for Flint residents.

“You bring successful much group taking money, and past what I noticed excessively is that they’re coming successful to Michigan, getting lodging vouchers, and past they’re leaving — going backmost down to Florida, taking nan voucher,” he said of nan migrants receiving tens of billions of dollars successful national subsidies nationwide for lodging and wellness care.

“And they didn’t motivate nan people, and past they were sending money into nan metropolis and nan group who they had put successful spot to get retired present and put nan crushed crippled connected present — they was keeping nan money and not doing what they were expected to do,” he added.

Woodson further accused nan run of failing to deploy aliases moreover salary galore canvassers successful Flint to get its connection out, opting connected personage endorsements and fly-in visits from extracurricular achromatic leaders.

“I kept calling nan run [and saying], ‘Hey, perceive … it don’t moreover consciousness for illustration a statesmanlike predetermination year,'” he recalled. “You hardly had anybody going doorway to doorway to walk retired lit for Harris … And I don’t moreover cognize who was complete [at] her office successful nan metropolis of Flint because you didn’t spot them.”

“How successful nan world tin you beryllium successful a Democratic metropolis and Trump person much gait signs than than Vice President Harris?” he asked. “The organization was ne'er alert … what nan crippled scheme was, I mean, cipher knew nothing.”

“They didn’t woody pinch nan people,” Woodson continued. “They dealt pinch each these fake, corrupt elected officials and clone civilian authorities leaders for illustration Al Sharpton, bringing them into Flint.”

“Don’t cipher spot him, don’t cipher for illustration him — support him distant from me. … He don’t excite cipher here,” nan Flint activistic said of nan MSNBC host, adding: “The group [are] tired of seeing actors and actresses and each these different people.”

Detroit rapper Eminem was 1 of respective celebrities who helped lukewarm up a Harris rally successful nan Motor City during nan last weeks of nan campaign.

In some his Post question and reply and nan Facebook livestream, Woodson besides knocked Harris’ moving mate prime of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, saying Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro would person helped her unafraid astatine slightest 1 bluish wall state.

“Shapiro was laid back. Shapiro was cool arsenic hell,” Woodson said successful nan livestream of nan Keystone State governor, a Jewish charismatic who was reportedly passed over retired of fearfulness that Democrats would alienate anti-Israel activists.

Walz, according to Woodson, was “too happy” and “the type that seems for illustration he will invade your abstraction if you’re talking to him.”

“You conscionable person to push backmost a small bit, man, and beryllium like, ‘Hey man, listen, each right, calm down, calm down, buddy,” he joked of an anticipated relationship pinch nan Minnesota governor.

“Just comparing him astatine nan statement and each that, [Vice President-elect] JD [Vance] has sewage it,” he added of nan Ohio Republican legislator and Trump moving mate.

Not supra ticket-splitting himself, Woodson revealed that he moreover formed a ballot connected Tuesday for Michigan GOP Senate campaigner Mike Rogers — who was projected to narrowly suffer to Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin — because Rogers cared astir veterans’ disablement issues and helped African-Americans pinch lodging issues successful Flint.

“Vice President Harris mislaid because it’s expected to beryllium Vice President Whitmer,” Woodson claimed successful his livestream, referring to Biden’s reported first prime for a 2020 moving mate.

“I heard that [former Michigan Democratic Rep.] Brenda Lawrence and, you know, different group … said [to Biden], ‘Hey, if you don’t prime Vice President Harris, we gonna, we’re gonna return our votes location other aliases not vote,'” he told The Post.

“I deliberation she feels good,” Woodson added of Whitmer’s authorities of mind post-election. “She don’t person to hold 8 years now. She tin hold 4 years now and get fresh to tally for president [in 2028].”

Despite his disapproval of Harris and her campaign, Woodson did person bully words for nan veep herself.

“When she first ran, she came to Flint and I sat down pinch her … and told her astir what was going on, what was going connected pinch nan water,” he recounted. “She said, ‘If I get successful office, I committedness you that I will travel backmost and thief you pinch this h2o and nan crab study.'”

“As soon arsenic she won, she came backmost to Detroit,” he said. “I met pinch her. … She kept her connection and that’s why I voted for her.”

The Harris-Walz campaign’s Michigan communications head Alyssa Bradley, arsenic good arsenic nan nationalist run and Michigan Democratic Party, did not respond to The Post’s petition for comment.