CAN'T REMEMBER A SINGLE THING BARACK OBAMA OR JOE BIDEN EVER DID FOR BLACK AMERICA WHEN THEY WERE SURRENDERING OUR BORDERS TO MEXICO???
Kamala Harris: ‘The Life of a Black Person in America Has Never Been Treated as Fully Human’
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) argued on Thursday, regarding Jacob Blake’s shooting by Wisconsin police, that black lives have never “been treated as fully human” in America.
Harris, the Democrat vice-presidential nominee, made the remark in a speech that was billed as a pre-rebuttal to President Donald Trump’s appearance at the Republican National Convention. The California lawmaker, in particular, argued recent events, including Blake’s shooting and the death of George Floyd in police custody, had exposed the difficult realities facing many of the country’s citizens.
“The reality is that the life of a black person in America has never been treated as fully human,” Harris said. “We have yet to fulfill that promise of equal justice under the law.”
“It’s no wonder people are taking to the streets. And I support them,” she added in another part of the speech. “We must always defend peaceful protests and peaceful protestors. We should not confuse them with those looting and committing acts of violence, including the shooter who was arrested for murder.”
Harris’s speech came as protests and rioting have continued to roil portions of Wisconsin. The tumult began on Sunday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, when local police shot Blake, a 29-year-old black American man, several times in the back. According to local media reports, police were called to respond to a “domestic incident” at the site of the shooting. Several witnesses have claimed that Blake was attempting to break up a fight between two women when police arrived.
Video from the scene, which went viral on social media, shows Blake walking away from police as the officers have their weapons drawn. In the video, Blake is seen opening the door of an SUV as a police officer attempts to stop him before firing at least seven shots into his back.
After the video of the shooting appeared on social media, protests erupted on the streets of Kenosha. Those protests quickly turned violent. On Monday, in particular, several businesses were burnt to the ground, including, a local charity.
The situation only intensified on Tuesday with more looting and confrontations occurring across Kenosha. One of those incidents caught national attention when a 17-year-old Illinois resident, Kyle Rittenhouse, killed two individuals and wounded a third with a rifle. Rittenhouse, who had identified himself as a supporter of law enforcement, was arrested on Wednesday for the shootings.
In the wake of such incidents, the Department of Justice announced it is deploying federal resources to Wisconsin to help quell the unrest.
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’
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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.
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Joe Biden questions my blackness one moment, defends racist 1994
crime bill the next
Paris
Dennard, Opinion contributor
,
USA TODAY Opinion•May 25,
2020
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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
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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.
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latest book is Conservatism Inc.: The Battle for the
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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.'"
WATCH: Black Lives Matter Protesters Harass Vernon Jones Outside White House
Black Lives Matter protesters accosted Georgia State Rep. Vernon Jones, a Democrat, as he left the White House to walk to his hotel after President Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC) Thursday night.
The group of protesters shouted obscenities at Jones and the woman accompanying him. Some recognized him from his speech at the RNC and demanded that he say the name of Breonna Taylor, who was killed by police in Louisville.
“Are you a black Trump supporter?” one asked. “You’re a fucking disgrace! Shame!” another shouted at Jones.
Police carrying bicycles formed a protective circle around Jones and his companion, moving them slowly down the street.
The crowd continued to harass Jones, shouting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and taunting police: “Who [sic] do you protect?”
A voice shouted: “You house [n-word]!”
In his address on Monday evening to the RNC, Jones said: “The Democratic Darty has become infected with a pandemic of intolerance, bigotry, socialism, anti-law enforcement bias, and a dangerous tolerance for people who attack others, destroy their property and terrorize our own communities.
“That’s what this election is all about. That’s why right now, more than ever, more than ever before, America needs Donald Trump in the oval office for another four years.”
Several minutes later, a mob of protesters also trapped Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) as he attempted to leave the White House after the speech.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). His new book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Marquette Law School Poll: Black Lives Matter Approval Plunges in Wisconsin
Public approval of the Black Lives Matter movement has plunged by a net 25 points in the past two months, according to data from a Marquette Law School Poll conducted between August 4 and August 9.
The result was released on Wednesday by poll director Charles Franklin.
In a statewide poll conducted between June 14 and June 18, the Marquette Law School Poll showed 61 percent of Wisconsin voters approved of the Black Lives Matter protests, while 36 percent disapproved of those protest. By a margin of 25 points, more Wisconsin voters approved of BLM than disapproved of BLM.
That same Marquette Law School poll conducted in Jun showed Joe Biden leading Donald Trump by 6 points in the state, 50 percent to 44 percent.
In a subsequent statewide poll conducted between August 4 and August 9, the Marquette Law School Poll saw approval drop 13 points, from 61 percent to 48 percent, while disapproval jumped by 12 points, from 36 percent to 48 percent. Stunningly, the net margin of approval versus disapproval among Wisconsin voters of BLM has dropped from plus 25 to zero in just two months.
That same Marquette Law School Poll conducted in August showed that Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by 5 points in the state, 49 percent to 44 percent.
Respondents were asked: “Do you approve or disapprove of the mass protests that have been held since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis?”
Charles Franklin, director of the Marquette Law School Poll, provided the following analysis of the poll results:
Approval of protests
In June approval of protests was widespread, with 61 percent approving of the protests and 36 percent disapproving. Approval declined in August with 48 percent approving and 48 percent disapproving.Approval remained strong among Black or Hispanic respondents and in the City of Milwaukee, but declined among white respondents and in the four media-market regions of the state outside the city of Milwaukee. Approval also declined in each of five urban-suburban categories including cities, suburbs, exurbs, small towns and rural areas. In August more respondents approved than disapproved in cities. Suburban areas, which were substantially net positive in June, became net negative on approval in August, though not as negative as exurban, small towns or rural areas. Net approval also declined across all three categories of party identification, with the largest declines among Republicans.
Favorable and unfavorable views of the Black Lives Matter movement
Overall more Wisconsin respondents have a favorable rather than unfavorable view of the Black Lives Matter movement. In June 59 percent were favorable and 27 percent were unfavorable. In August favorable views declined though a plurality held favorable views, 49 percent favorable to 37 percent unfavorable.Black or Hispanic respondents maintained a strongly favorable view while white respondents views became much less favorable, with 47 percent favorable and 40 percent unfavorable in August. Net favorability declined in all media markets of the state except for the city of Milwaukee. Net favorability slightly increased in principal cities, but declined in suburbs, exurbs, small towns and rural areas. Favorability declined in all partisan groups, though substantially with Republicans and modestly with Democrats.
Franklin also provided this analysis of approval and disapproval of Black Lives Matter, broken down by geographic location, party affiliation, and race or ethnicity, when responding to the question, “Do you approve or disapprove of the mass protests that have been held since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis?”
In June, 59 percent of white voters approved of the Black Lives Matter protest, while 38 percent disapproved. In August, approval among white voters dropped precipitously to 45 percent, while disapproval increased to 51 percent.
In contrast, there was virtually no change of approval for Black Lives Matter among black or Hispanic voters between the June poll and the August poll.
In June, 77 percent of black or Hispanic voters approved of the Black Lives Matter protests, while 19 percent disapproved. In August, 78 percent of black or Hispanic voters approved of the Black Lives Matter protests, while 20 percent disapproved.
There was also a significant disparity of voter attitudes by geographic region within the state.
Support for Black Lives Matter was highest in urban areas, declined in the suburbs, and plunged in rural areas.
Notably, while approval for Black Lives Matter protests declined by a net 25 points statewide in the two months between June and August, it actually increased by a net of 5 points in the city of Milwaukee over the same two month period.
In the city of Milwaukee, 78 percent of poll respondents approved of the Black Lives Matter protests in June, while 20 percent disapproved, for a net approval margin of 58 points. In August, 80 percent of poll respondents in the city of Milwaukee approved of the Black Lives Matter protests, while 17 percent disapproved, for a net approval margin of 63 points, five points more than the June net approval margin.
In suburban Milwaukee, 58 percent of poll respondents approved of the Black Lives Matter protests in June, while 37 percent disapproved, for a net approval margin of 21 points. In August, only 47 percent of poll respondents in suburban Milwaukee approved of Black Lives Matter protests, while 51 percent disapproved, for a net disapproval margin of four points, 25 points below the net approval margin of June.
In Madison, the state capital, 66 percent of poll respondents approved of the Black Lives Matter protests in June, while 31 percent disapproved, for a net approval margin of 35 points. In August, only 50 percent of poll respondents in Madison approved of Black Lives Matter protests, while 43 percent disapproved, for a net approval margin of seven points, 28 points below the net approval margin of June.
In the Green Bay/Appleton area, 58 percent of poll respondents approved of the Black Lives Matter protests in June, while 40 percent disapproved, for a net approval margin of 18 points. In August, only 46 percent of poll respondents in Green Bay/Appleton approved of the Black Lives Matte protests, while 49 percent disapproved, for a net disapproval margin of three points, 21 points below the net approval margin of June.
In the rest of the state, largely rural, 55 percent of poll respondents approved of the Black Lives Matter protests in June, while 41 percent disapproved, for a net approval margin of 14 points. In August, only 38 percent of rural poll respondents approved of the Black Lives Matter protests, while a stunning 58 percent disapproved, for a net disapproval margin of 20 points, 34 points below the net approval margin of June.
The Marquette Law School Poll of 801 registered voters was conducted between August 4 and August 9 and has a margin of error of 3.9 percent.
Matt Perdie
Black-Only Student Housing on NYU Campus?
Welcome to racial self-segregation in the age of post-oppression.
In yet another gesture of shameful appeasement to racist demands by black students for yet more racial self-segregation in the Age of Post-Oppression, New York University recently opened negotiations with students to create black resident floors on campus next year. A “themed engagement floor” for black students is being advanced by a group called “Black Violets NYU.” The group has complained that the overwhelming presence of white students has made it difficult for black students "to connect." Black Violets has also called for more black professors in its politics department, and for the creation of a black student lounge on campus.
In June of this year, students at Rice University had demanded that the University fund a “non-residential Black House” on campus. They also wanted a statue of the university’s founder removed. Other demands included that new students’ requests for black roommates be met during orientation weeks. This demand is clearly at odds with federal civil rights laws. Other demands included that course descriptions have tags indicating what race and ethnic groups are involved, since several course titles did not make it clear if diverse perspectives were offered in their course materials.
We must jog our memories and remember that in June, 2017 Harvard University held separate commencement ceremonies for black graduate students. One hundred and twenty students attended the third LatinX commencement ceremony replete with Latin music. Emory University and Henry College held diversity and inclusion year-end ceremonies. The University of Delaware joined a growing list with “Lavender” graduations.
There is no doubt that by the time this article is published there will be a multiplicity of schools meeting mostly new black students' demands for special black student lounges, all-black dorms, black seating spaces in cafeterias, and more spaces such as we witnessed at Evergreen University -- where white people are absent for days so black students can have a time on campus to feel special as black people. What next? All black libraries with only black authors, black gyms, black professors teaching only black students to avoid the racial trauma of being taught by a white instructor? If you think this is hyperbolic, observe that one of the demands made by the black students at Rice University is that the school hire more black counselors and therapists, and that they be trained in how to handle racial trauma.
I believe some thoughtful analysis is required here, especially as I have been a professor in the academy now for almost 24 years. I have taught at two Ivy League Universities, and have taught poor kids from the cornfields of Indiana, and poverty-stricken black kids from East St. Louis.
To begin, let’s be clear that no student at any elite university in this country, whether he or she be black, queer or international, is marginalized. Also, can anyone imagine what life will be like for a black student with a degree from an elite university like NYU? One simple word: fabulous. They’ll probably never have to apply for a job; they’ll be recruited midway through their senior year, long before any white student has even completed his or her final exam. Such students are catered to, pampered with high-end scholarships, treated like royalty with their every need anticipated, and every perceived slight they might feel anticipated and solved long before it might have arisen in their consciousness. Progressive American universities are the least racist to these radical left-wing students. Their peers and the various administrative bodies who run the universities are likely to prostrate themselves like obsequious Babbitts before them; and not just in meeting their tyrannical demands for exceptional treatment, but in feeling inordinate guilt that such students report feeling uneasy about their place in the universities.
So, what is this demand for racial segregation all about? To begin with, it is a disgraceful exercise in racist reactionary politics and an egregious display of misanthropic behavior. At the heart of it is not just the practice of the Big Lie—if ever there was one—that they are victims, but a preternatural conmanship at work. These students are racial hucksters exploiting white guilt, and milking a certain group of whites of their low-self esteem. There are white university administrators who need to engage in some twisted masochistic play with the sadistic whippings of privileged, entitled, black narcissistic students who, having been granted an enormous deal of institutional power, know, not feel, that the world does really revolve around them and will capitulate to their demands. If the world refuses, they as anointed victims, who by default have the permanent imprimatur of innocence, are certified moral icons who exist beyond the reaches of criticism.
They have been encouraged by the institution to not just feel welcomed on campus, but to treat the university as an extension of their living rooms and the homes from which they come from. There were no white people in those rooms and homes and so, why should they now have to live in the real world and engage and live among white people?
Their tribal separatist logic and the attendant trauma they report feeling is a charade. These students act like tribalists and biological collectivists; that is, as if their whole mode of being in the world, their values and principles and terms of engagement, are governed by some internal form of chemical pre-destination. But they are not.
What they face is a post-oppressive age, one that treats them as full-fledged human beings—and they can’t stand it. A deep existential crisis, and a chronic sense of anxiety afflict them in such a world because…well, it is drama-free. It’s just ordinary. And though they are feted and treated like royalty on these elite campuses, what they truly want is a situation in which they can command power and,inversely, create a racist institution.
Yes, on today’s elite college campuses discrimination exists towards conservative thinkers and their ideas. God help you if you’re a patriotic American who is pro-capitalism and pro-individual rights, a First Amendment and Second Amendment absolutist, a critic of the welfare state, a lover of Israel, and a critic of Islamic Jihadists. But that hardly describes the Marxist-inspired Black Lives Matter-motivated black separatists, racial self-segregationist reactionaries.
Today these students, their administrative appeasers, and their professors who have schooled them in their schemata are the purveyors of institutional racism—not its victims.
They have consciously weaponized their blackness and white guilt as a means of silencing criticism. They wish to harken back to some atavistic period when the black body is viewed as some amorphous, homogenized shaping of a majestic Nubian culture that, today, in our institutions of higher learning, will revolutionize thought: from decolonizing syllabi and ridding them of all European white thinkers, to declaring grammar, logic, and now even math as racist; to abolish history departments because history itself is a fabrication of mythologies and not a codification of objective facts. The very faculty that distinguishes us from every other creature and makes Man a human being—reason—is being called into question as a social construct meant to erase the identities of marginalized people.
This weaponized black body foists itself upon the world as a moral axiom from which all subsequent “truth claims” that emanate from any black body may be regarded as self-evidently true.
This is the real racialized identity politics behind the students’ demands. The black body as an argument. Unfortunately, there is nothing special about the black body. There is nothing special about any physical, racialized body, per se. Black skin does not convey the validity of an argument or a truth claim. It cannot justify a “themed engagement floor” because skin color does not represent a moral theme or any “theme” for that matter. Neither does white skin or yellow skin. Your body is not special until it conjoins itself to a mind and adapts nature to its needs and desires and rational aspirations, its self-actualization and manifested agency. Any human body that merely weaponizes itself in a crudely racialized manner and fails to achieve a rational self-cultivated moral character that can communicate clearly in rational terms, with inscrutable and inexorable logic, is merely an ecological social ballast: ignoble, exploitable, and a heap of unintelligible junk on this earth.
These students may have a safe haven while spineless university bureaucrats yield to their unintelligible shouts, snarls, moans and groans. When they matriculate into the real world with real, rational, practical and reality-oriented people who wield real power, and who will not capitulate to their demands, then reality, which ultimately cannot be cheated or faked, will set in. And after having been given so many opportunities and the keys to heaven on earth in our great republic, they will eventually be tossed on to the dustbin of history, screaming in abysmal terror at a universe that will care not one jot about them anymore.
Jason D. Hill is professor of philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago, and a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. His areas of specialization include ethics, social and political philosophy, American foreign policy and American politics. He is the author of several books, including “We Have Overcome: An Immigrant’s Letter to the American People” (Bombardier Books/Post Hill Press). Follow him on Twitter @JasonDhill6.
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