Barack Obama and His Race Card
Democrat racism, bigotry and lies.
Former President Barack Obama once again pulled out the race card for political gain, consequences be damned.
This time at the funeral of civil rights icon John Lewis, Obama compared President Donald Trump to not one but two racial segregationists, former Birmingham, Alabama, Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor and former Alabama Gov. George Wallace. The inconvenient truth that Connor and Wallace were Democrats is, apparently, of no relevance to Obama, his fellow Democrats or most of the media.
About Connor, Obama said, "Bull Connor may be gone, but today we witness, with our own eyes, police officers kneeling on the necks of Black Americans." The longtime former Bronx Rep. Charles Rangel, whose district included Harlem, also employed the Republicans-are-like-Bull Connor meme. Rangel, though, used it on then-President George W. Bush, who also spoke at Lewis' funeral. In 2005, Rangel criticized Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina by saying, "George Bush is our Bull Connor."
For those who have forgotten or never knew, Connor is the segregationist Alabama lawman who, in the '60s, turned water hoses and sicced dogs on civil rights protesters. "You can never whip these birds if you don't keep you and them separate," Connor said in 1963. "I found that out in Birmingham. You've got to keep your white and the Black separate."
Yes, Obama just compared Trump to that man. Never mind that Trump signed the First Step Act that, so far, has allowed more than 3,000 inmates convicted for crack cocaine — mostly Black men — to have their sentences reconsidered and over 2,000 released. Never mind that Trump posthumously pardoned Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight champion, who was the victim of a racially motivated prosecution.
About Wallace, Obama said, "George Wallace may be gone, but we can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators." In 1963, Wallace defied federal officers by literally standing in front of the door of the University of Alabama in a failed attempt to prevent the university from integrating. That same year, in his gubernatorial inaugural speech, Wallace said, "In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw a line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say, segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever."
Yes, Obama just compared Trump to Wallace, the governor who tried to stop Blacks from getting an education at a public school that Blacks qualify to attend. Never mind that Trump is a proponent of school choice, allowing Black students, K-12, to take their public school dollars to whatever school they qualify for as an alternative to poor urban public schools.
Since Obama compared Trump to two dead racist Democrat segregationists of the 1960s, it is only fair to ask about Obama's relationship with two living racist anti-Semites.
During his first six years, Obama invited the anti-Semitic, race-hustling, Tawana Brawley-lying Rev. Al Sharpton to the White House 72 times by December 2014. (Any visits after that time are not available on public record.) This would be the same Sharpton who, in 1991, fueled a rage in Brooklyn's Crown Heights, which experienced several days of violent protests in which Jews were attacked by Blacks. A few days earlier, Sharpton was recorded on tape bellowing, "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house."
As to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, a smiling Sen. Obama, in 2005, took a photograph with America's most notorious anti-Semite — and segregationist. ("What the Muslims Want" No. 10 on the Nation of Islam official website reads: "We believe that intermarriage or race mixing should be prohibited.") Photographer Askia Muhammad admitted that he did not show the photo to the public until 2018, after Obama left office. Asked whether the photo would have made a difference in Obama's 2008 presidential race, Muhammad said: "I insist. It absolutely would have made a difference."
If in doubt about whether the Obama-Farrakhan picture would have mattered, consider what Democratic lawyer Alan Dershowitz said after seeing the photo: "Louis Farrakhan is a virulent anti-Semite. He's called Judaism a 'gutter religion.' He's anti-American. He is a horrible, horrible human being.
"And if I had known that the President had posed smilingly with (Farrakhan) when he was a senator, I would not have campaigned for Barack Obama. It would have influenced my decision. Look, I threatened to leave the Democratic Party if Keith Ellison were elected as chairman because of his association with Farrakhan. You don't associate with a bigot. You don't associate with an anti-Semite."
Democrats, such as Obama, can "associate" with racists and bigots like Sharpton and Farrakhan and, with a straight face, denounce Trump's alleged racism and bigotry. And Obama knows that our left-wing media, of which MSNBC host Sharpton is a part, will not call him out.
Hypocrisy, anyone?
Larry Elder is a bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio talk show host. His latest book, "The New Trump Standard," is available in paperback from Amazon.com and for Nook, Kindle, iBooks and GooglePlay.
Kamala
Harris cackles and squirms about her past attack against Biden
One
of the most striking things about the now-joint candidacy of Joe Biden and
Kamala Harris is the way they’re being shielded from the press. We’ve long
known that Biden, who is suffering a severe cognitive decline, can’t be allowed
to roam free. However, most people assumed that Kamala would become his
mouthpiece to the media. That assumption, so far, has been wrong, and Kamala’s
dismal performance when faced with a single tough question from an obsequious
Stephen Colbert probably explains why.
To
set the stage for Kamala’s embarrassing Colbert moment, you have to remember
how brutally she attacked Joe Biden back in June 2019. Without using the word
“racist,” she nevertheless made it clear to everyone watching that Biden,
because he opposed busing and palled around with segregationists, was, in fact,
a racist who virtually destroyed the little girl that was Kamala:
The
media adored Kamala’s attack (which she’d obviously prepared well in advance)
and wasn’t bothered that her shtick about “that little girl was me” was inaccurate, if not downright
dishonest.
Kamala
was right, of course, that Biden is racist. From the start -- and
this is something he has in common with all Democrats – he’s been obsessed with
race. From his first day in the Senate, Biden hung out with racists, and his
anecdotes show he remembers that time fondly. Biden can’t stop talking about
Indian accents; he called integrated schools jungles; he said it was
a “storybook” that Obama was clean and articulate; he thinks all blacks
think alike, and he insisted that people are black only if they vote for him.
Nevertheless,
the nakedly-ambitious Kamala readily agreed when Biden (whom she also
said probably digitally raped a Senate employee
in the 1990s) asked her to join him on the presidential ticket. This is a
problem for Democrats, who have to address this inconsistency because her “I
was that little girl” speech was her breakout moment in the primaries.
It
fell to Stephen Colbert, as part of a fawning interview with Kamala, to ask her
the question:
Because in those debates, you landed haymakers on
Joe Biden. I mean, his teeth were like Chiclets all over the stage. And now, I
believe you that you’re fully supportive of him. How does that transition
happen? How do you go from being such a passionate opponent, on such bedrock
principles for you, and now you guys seem to be pals?
Colbert
framed the question to elicit a substantive answer. He assumed that Kamala, as
well as the whole Democrat team running Biden’s campaign, knew the question was
coming and had prepared a good response. For example, Kamala might have said
that, during her meetings with Biden, she’s learned how he’s grown over the
decades. He can sometimes say awkward, or even hurtful things, but his record
shows that he’s an ally, and yadda, yadda, yadda.
That’s
what Kamala could have done. But that’s not what Kamala did. Instead, in
between manic cackles (clearly stolen from Hillary), Kamala just repeated over
and over, “It was a debate. It was a debate.”
Kamala Harris basically
accused Joe Biden of being a racist during the debates and her only defense is
“it was a debate”.
So did you never think he was racist and knowingly falsely accused him of being
one or are you now just ok with being on a ticket with a racist? pic.twitter.com/0axLvxtf9Z
— Benny
(@bennyjohnson) August 15, 2020
That’s
not even a good non-answer. It’s a mindless and moronic mental reflex. It’s
like a dead frog’s leg kicking if an electric charge runs through its body.
Kamala
also gave the game away about the Democrat primary debates. These were not real
battles so that the voters could get the true measure of the candidates.
Instead, they were staged spectacles, closer to the WWE than to an actual
airing of political differences and mental acumen. The goal, always, was to get
voters to choose the hardest left candidate who did not actually look hard
left, and who stood a chance of winning (so, not Amy Klobuchar).
It
continues to be shocking that Biden and Harris are the best that the Democrats
can offer America. Neither can function without a handler at his or her side.
Biden, never bright, is now getting senile, and Harris, equally never bright,
is the person that we all know (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) is the actual
presidential candidate.
Image: Kamala Harris, Gage Skidmore on Flickr; CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
Paris
Dennard: All Joe Biden Has Done for Blacks Is ‘Lock Us Up’
Mario Tama/Getty Images
26 May 2020405
3:41
Former Vice President Joe Biden has
done nothing as a politician to help the black community, said Paris
Dennard, senior communications advisor for
black media affairs with the Republican Party, offering his remarks on
Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News
Daily with host Alex Marlow.
Biden’s declared on Friday
that if a black American is unsure of supporting him over President Donald
Trump in the 2020 election “then you ain’t black.”
.@JoeBiden: "If you have a problem figuring out
whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black." @cthagod: "It don't have nothing to do
with Trump, it has to do with the fact — I want something for my
community." @breakfastclubam pic.twitter.com/endvWnOIV2
— America Rising (@AmericaRising) May 22, 2020
Dennard warned against characterizing Biden’s statement as a
“gaffe.” Biden’s comment, he maintained, reflected the politician’s
condescension towards blacks. “It’s paternalistic, and it’s bigoted,” he said.
“We’ve got to stop calling these gaffes,” urged Dennard. “We
need to stop calling these ‘insensitive statements.’ No, They’re bigoted.
They’re racist, and it’s exposing Joe Biden’s long history. Stop giving him
cover for being a bigot.
Dennard noted the refusal of numerous Democrats to condemn
Biden’s framing of black identity as contingent on partisan political support
for the Democrat Party.
“I have been waiting to hear Amb. Susan Rice, Sen. Kamala
Harris, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, [and] Stacey Abrams stand up and say something
about this, but they’re not because it’s not about the people [or] the black
community,” Dennard stated. “It’s about the black vote. That’s all they’re
concerned about. It’s all politics.”
LISTEN:
“The RNC and the Trump campaign are going to be very
aggressively going after Joe Biden. The impact of his statement not only was
offensive to black Republicans or conservatives — or just free-thinking black
Americans like myself who are supporting President Trump — but it’s also
offensive to any black person who decides to just be a free thinker. … He’s
essentially saying, ‘If you are not on my team — Joe Biden’s team — you’re not
black,'” said Dennard.
“You have Joe Biden trying to put people in a box and think,
‘You’ve got to think the way I want you to think. If you don’t think that
way. I’m going to pull away your identity. I’m going to pull away your
cultural connection. I’m going to say that you are not a part of the
community.’ That is an offensive thing to say, because this is exactly what
they did during slavery, they wanted slaves to not be able to read and to write
and to remain dumb and illiterate so that we wouldn’t be able to be educated
and learned and advance and grow and prosper,” Dennard added.
“It is a way to suppress the vote,” Dennard stated. “It is a way
to discourage people from daring to be able to do like Kanye West did and do
like Vernon Jones did down in
Georgia. … When you talk about voter suppression, this is a tactic from the
left that we’re seeing play out by their nominee.”
Dennard assessed Biden’s political record.
“Let’s start with the Clinton crime bill, which [Joe Biden]
wrote,” Dennard recalled. “You want to have a conversation about anybody’s
statements to or for the black community? Let’s talk about how he talked about Barack Obama.
Let’s talk about how he talked about Indian-Americans. Let’s talk about how he talked about black kids
rubbing their their hands on [his] leg because they had never seen curly hair,
and ‘Corn Pop,’ and little
roaches, and people getting locked up for crossing the street.”
“You’ve been a vice president, but you haven’t done anything to
directly impact the black community in a positive way besides lock us up,”
concluded Dennard.
Breitbart News Daily broadcasts live on SiriusXM Patriot 125
weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern.
Follow Robert Kraychik on Twitter.
Joe Biden questions my blackness one moment, defends racist 1994
crime bill the next
Paris
Dennard, Opinion contributor
,
USA TODAY Opinion•May 25,
2020
834 Comments
Much attention has
been rightfully devoted to bigoted comments former Vice President Joe
Biden made during his Friday interview with “The Breakfast Club” when
he had the audacity to say "Well I tell you what, If you have a problem
figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black."
As a black man who
voted for Donald J. Trump for president in 2016, and plans to do so in 2020, no
77-year-old white man from Delaware has the right, authority or rationale to
question my blackness or the blackness of millions of Americans exercising our
God-given right to be free and exercise our constitutionally granted power
to vote for whomever we want, even if they are Republican.
If you only watch
the sound bites of the interview, you miss his full-throated support and defense of the 1994 crime bill. Biden literally tried to convince black America that our communities weren't destroyed, black families weren't ripped apart, and black wealth was not
stifled for generations because of a bill he designed.
So this happened...
“If you got a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or for Trump then you
ain’t Black.”
-@JoeBiden to @cthagod pic.twitter.com/IdnyxSAY5k
— Maliek Blade
(@MaliekBlade) May 22, 2020
Even the host from
“The Breakfast Club” agrees. After the interview, host Charlamagne tha God said, “He really was one of the people on the front lines when it
came to the war on drugs, and mass incarceration. If he wants to be president,
he needs to fix that."
Joe Biden's record is a shame
The black community
is well aware of the real impact of his signature legislation. The Center
for American Progress sums it up: “The crime bill also expanded the school-to-prison
pipeline and increased racial disparities in juvenile justice involvement by
creating draconian penalties for so-called super predators — low-income
children of color, especially black children, who are convicted of multiple
crimes.”
Thanks to President
Trump’s courageous leadership pushing for historic criminal justice reform and
signing the First Step Act into law, he helped reverse the pain and suffering
many black men and women experienced because of Biden’s bill.
He put the
vulnerable at risk: Why oh why is NY Governor Andrew Cuomo being
praised for his coronavirus response?
If Biden felt any
remorse over what he helped do to the black community, he could have spent his
next decades of service to Delaware to undo the damage, but he didn’t. If Biden
was so connected, concerned, and passionate about helping and uplifting the
black community he would have publicly pushed President Barack Obama to
get criminal justice reform over the finish line, but he was silent.
Biden and the
Democratic National Committee seem to look at black Americans just as votes and
not as actual people, with brains, feelings and families. Liberal policies
have not made it easier for black business owners to navigate fewer regulations, pay less in taxes, and be lifted out of poverty. Liberal policies were not responsible for historic low black unemployment, and the creation of opportunity zones. But the Trump administration did. So,
Biden should not be asking black America to compare his record to that of
Trump's.
Democrats try to scare black voters
What this entire
episode shows us is Biden and his team are running scared of the continued
black engagement efforts of the Republican National Committee and the
Trump campaign’s Black Voices for Trump Coalition, which are doing the work to build the relationships and
amplify the record of achievement of this current administration. Biden is
threatened. So, his latest voter intimidation tactic is to scare black voters
into submission by attempting to take away our cultural identity if we do
not vote for him.
Curiously, we have
not heard from former President Obama, or from several of the black women who
are rumored to be on Biden’s shortlist for vice president. So far, California Sen. Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams,
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge, Florida Rep. Val Demings, and former Ambassador Susan Rice are keeping mum or giving him
a pass. Why let bigoted comments get in the way of their own political
interests?
Former Vice President
Joe Biden interviewed by radio host Charlamagne tha God in May 2020.
Thankfully, Black
Entertainment Television (BET) co-founder Bob Johnson called him out
saying in part “This proves unequivocally that the Democratic nominee believes
that black people owe him their vote without question; even though we as black people know it
is exactly the opposite. He should spend the rest of his campaign
apologizing to every black person he meets.”
Yes, Biden issued an apology, not for being a bigot, or offensive, rude or arrogant, but he
only said, “I shouldn’t have been such a wise guy. I shouldn’t have been so
cavalier.” A lackluster response to match his lackluster record of
fighting for the black community.
Sen. Rand Paul and
Rep. Andy Biggs: Anthony Fauci wants America closed until there's
nothing to reopen
Add it to the list
of racist things he has said as an elected official, like saying of his
political opponents "They're gonna put y'all back in chains;" and talking about Obama as "the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking
guy;" and "In Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian
Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not
joking."
This is Joe Biden.
These are not gaffes. His horrible record matches his horrible
rhetoric. The contrast between him and President Trump on the issues
of jobs, justice, the economy, historically black colleges and universities, and even pandemic management is one that Biden is not prepared to have, especially as
he insults black Americans in the process.
Paris Dennard is a senior
communications adviser for black media affairs at the Republican National
Committee and the former White House director of black outreach for George W.
Bush. Follow him on Twitter: @PARISDENNARD
You can read
diverse opinions from our Board of Contributors and other writers on the Opinion
front page, on Twitter @usatodayopinion and in
our daily Opinion newsletter. To respond to a column, submit a comment to
letters@usatoday.com.
This article
originally appeared on USA TODAY: Joe Biden’s 'you ain't black' comment is voter
intimidation
Biden And Blacks: No Gaffe Can
Threaten This Venal Relationship
Joe Biden’s recent gaffe about blacks isn’t going to cost him
black support. It may even strengthen him because, far from being offended,
black political consultants, activists, and journalists just see more dollar
signs. Whereas First Son-in-Law Jared
Kushner reportedly wants to cut out the word "freedom" out of the GOP
platform because “polling showed it doesn't appeal to African Americans” [Scoop: Inside the
secret talks to overhaul the GOP platform, by Jonathan Swan, Axios,
May 24, 2020], the Biden-black relationship is solidly based not on illusory
symbols but on venal material interests. The GOP can’t compete, nor should it.
Biden won the Democrat Presidential nomination because he
was endorsed by South Carolina’s Jim Clyburn and
bought off black politicos like Symone Sanders, right,
the former Bernie Sanders supporter. Black
Democrats support Biden because they knew he would provide specific benefits
for their “community,” in contrast to the more class-based, universal policies
offered by Leftists such as Bernie Sanders or Andrew Yang. Like Virginia
Governor Ralph Northam, Biden’s
silly persona lets him be the hapless white frontman for racial socialist
redistribution programs. And now, like Northam after the blackface brouhaha,
Biden will have to offer blacks even more concrete benefits to ensure their
turnout.
The celebrated gaffe: In an interview with radio host Lenard
McKelvey, aka “Charlamagne tha God,” Biden said if blacks have a problem
figuring out whether to support him or President Trump, “you ain’t black” [Joe Biden: ‘You Ain’t
Black’ If You Don’t Back Me Over Trump, by Joshua Caplan, Breitbart, May 22,
2020]. Adding to the fun: Biden’s bizarre comment that “everyone in jail… can’t
read,” amusing since the “tha God” spent time in jail after various crimes when
he was a teenager [Five Things You Didn’t
Know About Charlamagne tha God, by Aiden Mason, TVOM, 2018].
The Kushner campaign has pounced on Biden with the
usual DR3 (Dems R the Real Racists) tactic, and is now selling extremely cringe T-shirts, below.
Official Trump Campaign T-Shirt
But of course this overlooks the fact that McKelvey wasn’t
offended on behalf of black Republicans. “It don’t have nothing to do with
Trump, it has to do with the fact—I want something for my community,” he
responded to Biden.
In other words, there’s no chance most blacks will consider
voting for Trump. But they do want more handouts for their group.
McKelvey, excuse me, “tha God,” pressed Biden on “what have you
done for me [blacks] lately” and condemned him for the 1994 crime bill [Charlamagne tha God
slams Joe Biden’s record with African Americans after the Democrat’s ‘ain’t
black’ gaffe and says his 1994 crime bill was a ‘very intricate’ part of
‘systemic racism,’ by Matthew Wright and Nikki Schwab, Daily Mail, May 23,
2020]. Joe Biden has promptly groveled, vowing that “I’ve never, ever taken the
African American community for granted” [Joe Biden Regrets ‘You
Ain’t Black Comment: ‘I Shouldn’t Have Been Such A Wise Guy, by Joshua Caplan, Breitbart, May 22,
2020].
But he has and he can. Thus Symone Sanders, running interference
for the former VP, tweeted that his comments
were “in jest” and that he could put “his record with the African American
community up against Trump’s any day,” steamrolled Chuck Todd’s attempt to
question her about it on Meet
The Press [Symone Sanders vs. Chuck Todd on Biden’s “You Ain’t Black” Comment; “I’m
Not Going To Do This, by Ian Schwartz, RealClearPolitics, May
23, 2020].
Former president Barack Obama is preparing to campaign for Biden
to drive up black turnout [Barack Obama poised to
add his star appeal to Joe Biden campaign, by Daniel Strauss, The Guardian, May 23,
2020]. And fears that blacks might stay home if they feel Biden hasn’t done
enough for them lately can be countered if necessary by choosing a black woman
female VP candidate, like Florida Congresswoman Val Demings [Val Demings rips Trump for having the "gall" to use
Biden remarks in campaign, Axios, May 24, 2020] or Georgia’s Stacey Abrams.
Biden’s weakness is his strength. Like Virginia’s Northam, he
can’t rule his party without monolithic black support [Joe Biden, the National
Northam, by Gregory Hood, American
Renaissance, March 6, 2020]. But that means black Democrats
like Clyburn will support him because Biden must deliver. Blacks vote as a bloc and
win concessions as a bloc.
Consider what Biden has already done before this. He began his campaign running
on the Charlottesville hoax that
alleges far-right protesters attacked the city and President Trump praised them.
Biden has said abandoning Anglo-American legal culture and its presumption of
innocence has “got to go” because it’s a “white man’s culture.” He’s more
recently said Ahmaud Arbery was “killed in cold blood.”
Biden is going to give blacks everything he thinks they want as
long as he gets to be president. President Trump was absolutely right when he
defined Biden as an empty shell, a “non-factor,” and said that his real
opponent was the radical Left and its Main Stream Media allies [Trump dismisses Biden:
‘Not even a factor,’ by Tal
Axelrod, The
Hill, May 16, 2020].
Still, why don’t the Democrats have a black person at the top of
the Democratic ticket? Because Joe Biden provides a way to soothe the moral
panic that older liberal whites are undergoing. It’s not surprising he leads in
critical suburban communities [Where Biden, Trump
stand in key swing states, by Jonathan Easley, The
Hill, May 23, 2020]. Biden’s own personal failings,
including plagiarism, allegations of corruption, and, most recently,
sexual assault, don’t matter without the MSM covering them aggressively.
Thus The Nation’s Katha
Pollitt openly states she’d vote for Biden even if “he boiled babies and ate
them” or if Tara Reade’s account of sexual harassment was true [We Should Take Women’s
Accusations Seriously. But Tara Reade’s Fall Short. May 20, 2020]. Feminists
had no problem voting for Bill Clinton or his enabler Hillary; why would they
object to Biden?
If anything, Biden’s creeping senility, bumbling, and overall
buffoonery are endearing to white liberal voters who want to go back to the
“normality” of the Obama years when the president was just another celebrity. I
suspect Biden was picked by Obama because he’s
an oaf, the dumb white sitcom dad we’ve seen on television a million times.
He’s got a certain charm, but no one respects or fears him.
There is no white “community” in American politics conscious of
itself as a group possessing collective interests and identity. The pollster
Zach Goldberg has found that white liberals actually possess an “out-group
bias”—meaning that they dislike their own ethnic group more
than any other. In academia, journalism and increasingly, “white” is an all-purpose insult. The
only qualification: many of these white liberals don’t
identify with whites anyway, either because they are part of an ethnic group that considers
itself distinct from whites (like many Jews); an oppressed group (like some
sexual minorities); or are genuinely post-national (and think they’re
citizens/consumers of the world).
Notwithstanding the constant denunciations of President Trump as
a white nationalist, the fact is he never speaks explicitly in defense of his
white supporters. He’ll occasionally send out what appears to be a dog whistle,
as when he cryptically referenced the savage beating of
a helpless elderly white man by a younger black man in a nursing home in Michigan. But his supporters are
learning that there will be no political consequences from this dog whistle.
There’s no push to eliminate Affirmative Action or establish Official English. Even
Trump’s recent boast that he was going to
remedy the “illegal” bias and deplatforming of patriots on social media is apparently just means a “commission”—which is still
being “considered” [Trump Considers Forming
Panel to Review Complaints of Online Bias, by John McKinnon and Alex
Leary, The Wall Street
Journal, May 23, 2020].
Arguably, the GOP could move to the left and propose a civic
nationalist program that might well win a few more black votes than the GOP is
getting now: a universal basic income, an immigration moratorium, Official English and
replacing Affirmative Action with a system that gives advantages to those from
a lower economic class
In other words, challenge the Democrats for black voters by
offering them something real.
But we know the GOP won’t do that—not least because Conservatism Inc. ideologues would
fight it every step of the way. Better to lose and have some other black conservative we’ve never heard of lecture us on “Republican outreach” again next CPAC.
In contrast, Democrats provide blacks with concrete advantages
like set-asides, special programs, ethnic narcissism, and cultural victories.
Why would blacks give that up? Once in a while, they might throw a minor
tantrum to win more subsidies, but it’s not like a party that wants “limited
government” can offer anything to people that rely on government being big.
Let the Kushner campaign sell its shirt. It won’t make a
difference. Blacks will vote for Biden this fall by the usual margins, if not
greater ones than last time.
Joe Biden has already shown he’s willing to degrade himself as
much as he has to in order to be president. Kissing up to “Charlamagne da God”
is just business as usual.
James Kirkpatrick [Email him |Tweet him @VDAREJamesK] is a Beltway veteran and a refugee from Conservatism Inc. His
latest book is Conservatism Inc.: The Battle for the
American Right. Read VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow's Preface here.
THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY IS FOR BILLIONAIRES, BANKSTERS,
BAILOUTS AND OPEN BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED
On the topic of immigration, she added, “During
her lifetime, my aunt Coretta Scott King spoke about immigration coming in, and
it would displace ‘negroes,’ or blacks, as we were called back then. And she
even wrote about that. My uncle, Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke about
immigration as well.
Who ‘Ain’t Black’?
THIS IS FOR REAL!
Biden reminds African-Americans where they stand in the Democratic
Party.
May 25, 2020
Lloyd Billingsley
“I tell you,
if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
Thus spake
Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden last Friday in an interview with
host Charlamagne tha God. Accomplished black people were surprised to hear they were not
black.
“I thought to
myself, I have been black for 54 years,” said Sen. Tim Scott, South
Carolina Republican. “1.3 million black
Americans already voted for Trump in 2016,” and “this morning, Joe Biden told
every single one of us we ‘ain’t black.’” For Scott it was “sadly par for
the course for Democrats to take the black community for granted and brow beat
those that don’t agree.” Black Entertainment Television (BET) co-founder Robert
Johnson expressed similar sentiments.
“Vice
President Biden’s statement today represents the arrogant and out-of-touch
attitude of a paternalistic white
candidate who has the audacity to
tell black people, the descendants of slaves, that they are not black unless
they vote for him,” Johnson told Fox News. “This proves unequivocally that the
Democratic nominee believes that black people owe him their vote without
question, even though we as black people know it is exactly the opposite.”
For former NFL
player Jack Brewer, “the mask is off” and “America can see the real Joe
Biden, hopefully all of my African-American brothers
and sisters.” As Brewer told Fox News on
Sunday, “He was the VP of Barack
Obama so he hides in the closet at lot,” covering up “oppressive policies that
he’s pushed since he’s been in the Senate,” the 1994 crime bill among them.
What Biden had
revealed, wrote Deroy Murdock of
National Review, was the view, “widely
popular among Democrats,” that black Americans who fail to support the Democrat
agenda are not just wrong but, much worse, “they’re not even black.” Murdoch
found this “insulting, degrading and dehumanizing,” and there was more to it.
“Note Biden’s
pandering use of ‘ain’t’ and ‘y’all’ when addressing blacks, including a
southern accent in the latter instance.” In similar style, Hillary Clinton
“exhibits the same annoying, patronizing behavior.” Larry Elder tweeted a cartoon of Hillary Clinton in blackface saying “I ain’t no
ways tired of pandering to African Americans.” This was allegedly racist, but
Joe Biden telling blacks that GOP is ‘going to put y’all
back in chains’ – not a problem.” On
the other hand, some blacks had no problem with the Biden statement.
“The issue
wasn’t what Joe Biden said, because it was
accurate,” tweeted Jamele Hill of The
Atlantic, formerly of ESPN. It was “clearly a joke that didn’t land,” but
if you support what Hill calls anti-black policies, “you’re still technically
black but you ain’t with us.” Others were eager to clarify.
“There is a
difference between being politically black and being racially black,”
wrote New York Times correspondent Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize winner for her contribution to the 1619 Project. “Being born black does not necessitate being politically black,”
wrote Hannah-Jones in a tweet she has since deleted.
Biden said he
“shouldn’t have been so cavalier” and “no one should have to vote for any
party, based on their race or religion or background,” but that failed to land
with Kanye West, also a
supporter of President Trump. “I will not
be told who I’m gonna vote on because of my color,” West proclaimed.
Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas made a comment by way of the new
documentary Created Equal:
Clarence Thomas in His Own Words. “One of the
things you do in hearings is you have to sit there and look attentively at
people you know have no idea what they are talking about,” Thomas said. In his
1991 confirmation hearing, one of them was Senate Judiciary Committee chairman
Joe Biden, and as Thomas recalled, “We know exactly what’s going on here. This
is the wrong black guy. He has to be destroyed.”
For someone
often unsure of his location, the day of the week, and what office he is
seeking, Joe Biden does not hesitate to tell others what he thinks they are,
with absolute certainty. For example, according to the former vice president,
the millions of people illegally present in the United States are “already American
citizens.” That would surprise
countless legal immigrants and legitimate citizens of all skin shades.
Last year,
Biden could have told Democrat rival Elizabeth Warren “you ain’t no Cherokee,”
which would have been true. Instead, the serial plagiarist tells African Americans
they “ain’t black,” which is not an original racist smear.
Back in the
1990s, Clinton assistant attorney general nominee Lani Guinier questioned the
blackness of Thomas Sowell, the great scholar, economist and author of books
such as Intellectuals and Race. Nikole Hannah-Jones and Jamele Hill might check out
Sowell’s response to Lani
Guinier: “I don’t need some
half-white woman from Martha’s Vineyard telling me about being black.” By their
own admission, African Americans don’t need an addled white Democrat telling
them “you ain’t black,” if they fail to support him.
“Wow,” tweeted
former NFL great Herschel
Walker. “Does he not understand that
black and brown skinned people can think for themselves? You don’t determine
who we vote for.”
“Thank you
Herschel!” tweeted President Trump, who has established www.youaintblack.com with the logo “Black Voices for Trump 2020.” As the
president says, we’ll see what happens.
'We've
got to strengthen our own borders': MLK niece supports Trump's temporary
immigration ban
by Emma Colton
|
April 22, 2020 10:34 AM
Martin
Luther King Jr.’s niece said she supports President Trump’s forthcoming
temporary suspension of immigration to the United States.
Trump
announced he would be signing an executive
order this week that is
expected to put a 60-day ban on immigrants seeking permanent status in the U.S.
Alveda King, the director of Civil Rights for the Unborn at Priests for Life,
said she agrees with the order, arguing that it will help the U.S. become
healthier and stronger amid the coronavirus.
“I
agree with President Trump,” King
told Just the News on
Tuesday. “Now, this is a temporary measure. This is not a forever
measure."
"So,
the president, when he says 'America first' — he never says 'America only,'
just 'America first,'" she said. "Immigration slows for a time. Then
we become healthier. Then we can reach out to others. That is the strategy. So,
people need to understand that. We've got to strengthen our own borders, our
own lives, our own families, our own communities. Once we do that, then we can
help others."
Just the News reported that
the U.S.
Civil Rights Commission under
the Obama administration showed illegal immigration negatively affects blacks
and asked King if the U.S. should consider immigration control a civil right.
“Civil
rights, I would not say — I think more it helps human rights. It helps
Americans to get better," King said. "Civil rights, of course, come
after human rights, and human rights are endowed by our creator. So, there are
some rights, human rights, that we all have. And I believe we all have rights
all over the planet to safety, security, provision, and all of that. When that
is missing, it is wise for leaders of any nation to stop, take toll, repent, pray,
return to God, and get things straightened out."
On the topic of immigration, she added, “During her lifetime, my
aunt Coretta Scott King spoke about immigration coming in, and it would
displace ‘negroes,’ or blacks, as we were called back then. And she even wrote
about that. My uncle, Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke about immigration as well.
"My
father, the Rev. A.D. King, with all of us having the understanding this nation
was founded by immigrants, as it is today," she continued. "We had
the Native Americans here before we were here, of course. So, we are all
immigrants. ... Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Well, we may have come out on
different boats, but we are all in the same boat now.'"
No comments:
Post a Comment