Biden’s continued cynical use of race
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
President Joe Biden is “down” with Black voters and I’m not speaking street slang.
A new USA Today/Suffolk University Poll reveals one in five Black voters say they will support a third-party candidate instead of the president. That’s down substantially from the 92% of non-Hispanic Blacks who voted for Biden in 2020, according to the Pew Research Center.
The president’s strategy for shoring up his and Democrats’ most loyal supporters? Telling them their biggest threat is “white supremacy.”
Nothing about the failing schools so many poor and minority children feel trapped in; or violence in big cities that kill many young Black men most weekends and increasingly during the week; or the disproportionate abortion rate among Black women that has kept their percentage of the population mostly stagnant; or the necessity of putting more Black fathers in homes to provide loving disciple to their children.
Biden has a long history of using race as a political weapon while doing little to improve the lives of Black Americans.
Speaking at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where in 2015 a white gunman shot and killed nine members of a Bible study, Biden again demonstrated his insincerity about race by making statements that have been proven false.
He claimed to have been a “civil rights activist.” He wasn’t. He claimed to have “spent more time in the Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, Delaware, than most people I know, Black or white.” He hasn’t. He also claimed that church was “where I started a civil rights movement.” He didn’t.
As a New York Post editorial noted, “(Biden has) pushed such baloney time and again.” He has claimed to have been arrested during civil rights demonstrations and while on the way to see Nelson Mandela in prison. Neither is true.
Biden claimed to have persuaded segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond to vote for the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Wrong on two counts. Thurmond did not vote for the act and Biden was not in the Senate in 1964.
There was also his 2006 remark: “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.” In 2020, he said if Blacks didn’t vote for him “you ain’t Black.” In 2010, he warmly eulogized Sen. Robert Byrd, a former Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan, saying he was “one of my mentors” and that “the Senate is a lesser place for his going.” As early as 1977, Biden said that forced busing to desegregate schools would cause his children to “grow up in a racial jungle.” In 2007, he referred to Barack Obama as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean.”
So many more examples, but not enough space.
Democrats have played the race card for decades, even blaming poor performances (see former Harvard President Claudine Gay) on bigotry, not plagiarism and a failure to denounce antisemitic campus demonstrations. Their talk has been cheap and the results negligible. One wonders why so many still vote for them given their record. White Democrats only show up in Black churches at election time and are not seen for another two or four years. Shouldn’t that tell them something?
White supremacy is a minority view. Christians call it a sin. There are no pure-bred people. We are all mixed up in the great gene pool of life, as Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has brilliantly demonstrated in several PBS programs on African American lives. To hate another person because of their race is to hate a part of one’s self.
Given the declining poll numbers for Biden, among especially young Black voters, it would appear they are starting to figure out how Democrats have duped them for decades. Biden’s out-of-touch speech in Charleston is likely to do little to improve his favorability among their party’s once solid voting bloc.
Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com. Look for Cal Thomas’ latest book “A Watchman in the Night: What I've Seen Over 50 Years Reporting on America" (HumanixBooks).
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This is a chance for Black Americans to show the democrat party that they are not fools. Don't blindly give them your votes again.
I don’t understand how African American women can vote for a man who said they were too stupid to raise their own children and we should send social workers to help them.
Can you imagine if Trump had said any of those things?
The left would melt down … completely ….
African American women will be the toughest to convince. LBJ has many of them married to the federal government.
Traitor Joe is a racist plain and simple. But for some reason his little band of idiot misfits can't see itl
He is also a career habitual liar; but we are supposed to ignore that as well.
And hyper-focus on his predecessor.
His record as president sucks- so he can't run on that.
His record as a politician suck.
Nice sentiment , but basically meaningless. Racism exists on a sliding scale all racists are not equal and all dont have the disease to precise measurable amounts. I dont doubt that flat out white supremacists are a small minority, but that doesnt mean that the fumes of white supremacy dont waft amongst a larger percentage of the population.
"Christians call it a sin". Whoop de doo, Has the nature of sin changed in the past 200 years ? I dont think any theologians would say so. Sin is as old as the hills. About this time, 200 years ago, slaveowners in America began to use the Bible and Christianity as a rationale for maintaining and expanding slavery. "Sin" didnt discourage racism then, so what is supposed to have changed ?
Really? Do racists really believe this? LOL. One of the major aspects of racism is that the victims are considered "the other", and have nothing to do with the makeup of the perpetrators.
You do realize that the entire article refers to Brandon right?
But nice of you to cherry pick this one section to try and promote your over the top views on racism.
He is actually defending racism.
He sees racism everywhere; and only defends it when leftists are guilty of it.
It's saddening that the hypocrisy of it is now expected instead of a surprise.
Well, does it? You seem to be an expert on all things racial, but, as always, you fail to prove your point with credible facts and hard evidence.
Biden’s embrace of systematic racism is a much greater danger to the long term health of the republic than trump’s all consuming narcissism