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By Jaden Perry, Staff Writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the final hours of the 2024 Presidential Election, both candidates vie relentlessly for an upper hand in what\u2019s shaping to be an incredibly close race. At the center of this political tug-of-war lie battleground states, pop-culture promotion \u2014 and Black men. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Often described as being a crucial voting bloc to sway in election cycles, the winning over of Black men has once again made it to the forefront of political conversation. While it remains unclear which candidate will definitively win the majority of this group, two men on Bowie State University\u2019s campus \u2014 Zaire Bond and Mark Cox \u2014 lend some insight into the varied perspectives of the valued voting bloc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of Nov. 5, a poll<\/a> taken by The Economist shows Vice President Kamala Harris leading Former President Donald Trump by 1.1 percent. This is close, but it reflects the candidate 7 of the 12 polled Black men on campus say they will opt to bubble in come Nov. 5. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Zaire Bond \u2014 a 19-year-old sophomore and history education major \u2014 is one of those men. \u201cI’ll be voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz for president and vice president.\u201d Bond also plans to vote blue throughout the ballot to \u2014 as he says \u2014 dampen the influence of another Trump presidency. \u201cWe have to worry about Congress because Congress is the one making the laws. And so we’re gonna try our best to get out there and vote and motivate other people who are voting too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alongside abortion rights, DEI laws and police reform, Bond\u2019s top point of concern is education. \u201cSince I’m an education major, I do not want the Department of Education to end,\u201d he said in reference to The Heritage Foundation\u2019s conservative Project 2025<\/a> plan that aims to eliminate the department. \u201cBecause, I know about all the different types of benefits the Department of Education provides, which is like the different financial aids and access to different scholarships, and also the funding of HBCUs.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He worries what this could mean for Bowie State, a publicly funded HBCU that has encountered funding challenges<\/a> in the past. However, the elimination of the Board of Education hits even closer to home for the history fanatic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the president and founder of the Black Male Educators and Leaders Alliance Club, Bond\u2019s goal is to empower black men on campus as educators \u2014 who will eventually become leaders. \u201cAnd many educators do more than just [sit] inside their classrooms,\u201d he said, drawing a direct connection between local educators and policymakers, \u201ca lot of them are leaders in their local community, creating laws for the [benefit of] students that are inside their classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though his father, a history teacher from Baltimore County, helped set the foundation of his political views, Bond began to step into his own set of values back in 2016. \u201cSince then, we had a lot of issues that have sort of impacted the black community,\u201d he said. By 2020, his values concerning race were solidified with the racially motivated killings of African Americans like George Floyd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zaire Bond (center left) depicted with the Black Male Educators and Leaders Alliance Club interest meeting attendees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Citing the hard-fought struggle for African Americans to gain the right to vote, Bond remains strong in his belief in the democratic process \u2014 and confident in his decision to cast his first-ever ballot for Kamala Harris. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI feel very excited because I get to play a role in the American process and what it means to the American citizen as well as for black people in particular,\u201d he said, \u201cbecause our ancestors have worked tirelessly to ensure that our people are able to vote \u2026 so I definitely will be making sure that I enact that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

II: Mark \u2018Ikram\u2019 Cox: \u201cOn the fence\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Howard University Alum, a Bowie State graduate, an adjunct English professor and a devout Muslim are just a few descriptors attributed to Mark Cox \u2014 aka Mark Ikram. Despite his educational background, however, Cox is having a harder time than Bond to cast a vote for his fellow alumna, Kamala Harris. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI’m still on the fence about that, to be honest with you,\u201d said Cox, \u201cI’m a Howard alumni, so I do want Kamala to succeed. But at the same time, there’s some things with her that I’m not a fan of.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 38-year-old Cox states that his primary reason for not supporting Harris is her recent endorsement from former Vice President Dick Cheney and former U.S Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld \u2014 or as Cox describes them \u2014 \u201cwar hawks.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWill she have obligations to that neoconservative agenda when she gets in there? And that’s why I don’t know if she actually will be able to thwart their influence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though, this doesn\u2019t mean the other side of the aisle has completely won him over either. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Cox\u2019s perspective, Donald Trump presents a similar concern. Cox describes the first Trump administration as a \u201ccircus\u201d \u2014 however, he does admire some things regarding the character of the former president. \u201cThere\u2019s some things about Trump I admire, particularly his discipline,\u201d said Cox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Cox\u2019s support for Trump waivers for much the same reasons as Kamala’s \u2014 because of the endorsements that back the campaign. Organizations such as the Proud Boys, Moms for Liberty and the architects of Project 2025 \u2014The Heritage Foundation \u2014 are what wane his support for the party. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with being a two-time HBCU grad and English professor at Bowie State, Cox is also the program coordinator for the Scholars Fellows program<\/a> at the university. \u201cWe are working hard to get a contingent of black male teacher candidates through college,\u201d said Cox \u2014 describing the mission of the program. The program, as Cox explains,  accommodates a range of different age groups, spanning anywhere between 18-year-olds to 40-year-olds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bowie State University students depicted next to Thurgood Marshall Library. Credits: Center for Research & Mentoring of Black Male Students & Teachers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Paired with his background in education, Cox is a devout Muslim who, after graduating from Howard University, struggled for 9 years alongside his wife to pay off their student loan debts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This extended debt delayed the birth of their first child \u2014 so it\u2019s no surprise that this issue is the top concern on Cox\u2019s list of political priorities. \u201cPeople actually think like education is a bad idea now like to go to college because it’s so pricey with these student loans So that’s the biggest thing for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Falling under the management of absorbent student loans, Cox\u2019s three other important political issues include African American reparations, being anti-war mongering \u2014 and food rights. Emphasizing the latter, Cox\u2019s initial goal was to vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. before he dropped out in late August of this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out of the pool of 12 polled Black men at Bowie State, Cox was the only voter still undecided. And, opposite to Bond, Cox has little faith in the current two-party system. In 2004, Cox\u2019s first vote was at 18, then in 2008, but after that he didn\u2019t vote until the recent 2020 election. \u201cI voted then because I felt like with regard to the economy, I had to make a choice to voting in that election.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cox was unclear about which candidate he voted for then, but today, he suggests a unique solution \u2014 formulate a party by African Americans, for African Americans. \u201cIt seems like every four years we’ve caught up in the same cycle talking about the same things, which we could actually perform together and solve these problems in and of ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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