According to Atlanta Black Star, the pair clashed over a speech President Barack Obama made, in which he urged Black men to vote for Harris. Owens said both political figures are not accurate representations of “Blackness.”

“It is fundamentally racist,” Owens said on the show, referring to Obama’s remarks. “It is something Black people are right to be upset about it. There’s nothing about Kamala Harris or Barack Obama, if we’re being frank, that is Black. There is something that is very cartoonish about them working to Blackify a politician before they run for office.”

Black people, specifically Black men, have consistently voted Democrat in presidential elections. However, data from a September NAACP report showed that 1 in 4 Black men under 50 supported Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, according to Reuters. Harris recently rolled out a new plan for Black male voters as well as television ads addressing this group.

Marc Lamont Hill

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