Murders Surge 51 Percent in Mayor Lori Lighfoot’s Chicago
The time-frame January 1, 2020, through October 31, 2020, saw murders surge 51 percent in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago compared to the same calendar period in 2019.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports, “There have been 655 murders this year through Oct. 31, while the city had 431 during the same period in 2019 — a 51% increase.”
And if we look at the number of shooting victims in general, not limiting it to those who were murdered, we see a 56 percent in increase January 1, 2020, through October 31, 2020, as compared to 2019. “At least 3,465 people were shot in Chicago through Oct. 31 this year” compared to “2,221 shooting victims during the same period” in 2019.
Most recently, 29 people were shot, four fatally, over Halloween weekend in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago. Breitbart News reported that 27 were shot, two fatally, Friday into Sunday morning alone.
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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 14, 2020
President Donald Trump’s offers of federal help to halting the gun crime were rejected during the summer by Mayor Lightfoot.
For example, on August 8, 2020, Breitbart News reported Lightfoot rejection of calls for federal HOPE response to the looting and violence overnight in Chicago, opting instead to push for more gun control.
Lightfoot called for “common sense gun control,” saying, “We cannot continue to have circumstances where anybody and their brother can go across the border, or into other parts of Illinois, and bring illegal guns into the city of Chicago.” And she had made the same argument weeks earlier during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper.
The Hill reported Lightfoot’s July 26, 2020, appearance on CNN’s State of Union, wherein she said, “We are being inundated with guns from states that have virtually no gun control, no background checks, no ban on assault weapons — that is hurting cities like Chicago.”
Mayor Lori Lightfoot / PeriscopeShe did not mention that between state and local ordinances, Chicago has licensing of gun owners via state required FOID cards, an “assault weapons” ban via a Cook County ordinance, a 72-hour waiting period on gun purchases via state law, and a red flag law, which is statewide as well. Yet murders are still 51 percent higher than they were in 2019.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
Countering 'You Ain't Black' with the Facts
When comedienne Chelsea Handler noticed a pro-Trump tweet posted by her ex-flame 50 Cent, she became apoplectic and launched a bizarre social media crusade to change his mind. Dripping condescension, she asked if he knew what his race was and insulted his intelligence, saying if he's black he can't vote Trump. In an Instagram post, she addressed him "Hey f-----!," offering to pay his taxes if he changed his mind on Trump. And in an interview with Jimmy Fallon, she even dissolutely proffered renewed intimacy to 50 Cent: "I might be willing to go for another spin, if you know what I'm talking about."
Her inability to accept that a black might support Trump is of a piece with presidential candidate Joe Biden's comment to radio host Charlamagne tha God: "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black." Like many liberals in the public sphere, Handler insists that American blacks should assert race über alles, and their candidate choice should be monolithic and unidimensional — Democratic, that is — based solely on loyalty to the color of their skin.
The false equation "black = Democratic" has long been taken for granted by the Democrats, who conflate blacks' allegiance to their party with being true to their race. American blacks who dare to break free of this shackling assumption end up facing the ostracism of "cancel culture." It's an experience well known to black conservatives like Larry Elder, Candace Owens, Shelby Steele, and others.
But the fallacious presumption that the Democratic Party offers the best deal for blacks has begun to unravel in the four years of the Trump administration. Myriad policies and programs initiated by him have benefited blacks immensely. It makes sense for them to examine the many ways in which they have prospered under the Republican president and question the expectation of unwavering allegiance to the Democratic party.
According to a 2018 economic report from the U.S. Census Bureau, black poverty rates dropped to 20.8% from 24.1 % in 2015. Trump's "hire American" and other economic policies, which foster growth in place of direct tax-and-spend transfer payments, have done much to spur job creation and wage increases and combat inequality. Before the coronavirus pandemic, the black jobless rate had fallen to an unprecedented 5.5%.
In July, in the throes of an economic shutdown, Trump made sure that black workers matter with an executive order to suspend most guest worker programs and curtail the rewarding of green cards for those not in the country. These policies help minorities, who disproportionately compete with foreign labor. In other efforts to improve the economic conditions of minority communities, Trump designed the Opportunity Zone (O.Z.) program and the Platinum Plan.
The O.Z. program has spurred economic revitalization in distressed communities by providing tax benefits to incentivize private investment in community improvements such as the creation of much needed housing and essential infrastructure. Investors work in concert with local leadership and government officials to achieve a positive economic impact for residents. It's a win-win scenario for both parties. The revitalization potentiates job growth; increases demand for housing, restaurants, and entertainment opportunities; and improves access to transportation.
The Platinum Plan calls for increased investment in black businesses and greater availability of capital for black entrepreneurs. The stated goal is to create 500,000 black-owned businesses, provide $500 billion in capital investment, add three million jobs, and increase homeownership. The plan is now in the proposal stage, but it's certainly indicative of the president's continued commitment to the black community. In stark contrast to the unending cycle of dependency fostered by government programs historically offered by Democrats, Trump's plan offers the possibility of wealth creation, independence, and prosperity.
In educational reforms, President Trump has championed school choice, which, according to the National School Choice survey (2016) by the American Federation for Children, is supported by 76% of black Americans. Providing alternatives to public education through school choice is an effective way of breaking the cycle of poverty and ensuring a more successful future. So black parents definitely want to exercise more power over the education available to their children. Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes found that black charter school enrollees achieved significantly greater success in math and reading. Similarly, the Black Alliance for Educational Options has found measurable learning gains for black students in public charter schools over traditional public schools. Other studies, too, have noted such gains.
A hundred days into his administration, President Trump solidified his commitment to educational opportunities for black Americans by signing a bill providing $250 million per year to the country's historically black institutions of higher education. And with the White House Initiative to Promote Excellence and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), the president affirmed that HBCUs are a "priority" for his administration, something that disappointed black leadership had expected over eight years of the Obama administration. As part of the initiative, he signed an executive order establishing an executive director in the office of the president: instead of the Department of Education, the White House will directly oversee these efforts. The vision is for enhanced planning and development, private sector collaboration, and infrastructure upgrades.
The Trump administration's First Step Act has been hailed as the most significant criminal justice reform legislation, designed to change federal sentencing laws "that have wrongly and disproportionately harmed the African-American community." It gives nonviolent offenders "the chance to reenter society as productive, law-abiding citizens" and allows for early release from prison, sentence reduction, and better opportunities for rehabilitation. Ninety-one percent of inmates freed by the legislation were black Americans, and sentences were reduced by an average of 73 months. States have been spurred to follow suit with similar legal reforms.
When massive violence, looting, and destruction were perpetrated in cities across the country by Black Lives Matter (BLM), Trump asserted that the extremist, anti–law and order, Marxist organization is harmful for blacks. BLM wants the nuclear family destroyed, police and prisons abolished, border security eliminated, and school choice to end. Should these happen, they would no doubt work against the black community. Trump made no bones about saying BLM was insincere in claiming to care for black lives.
BLM does not seem to care about the over 7,000 blacks murdered annually by other blacks and the dire consequences of absent fathers in the black community. While BLM demands abolition of law enforcement on hyped charges of racism, a recent Gallup poll indicated that 81% of blacks want police to stay in their neighborhoods. Of BLM's anti-police stance, Trump said, "This pushing to defund the police is hurting black communities the most."
Three recent polls (The Democracy Institute, Emerson, and Zogby) show a surge in black voter support for Trump with 19–20% stating they would vote for the president, compared to just 8% in 2016. Blexit, an organization founded by conservative commentator and political activist Candace Owens, has recently emerged as a grassroots political force for black Americans who have exited the Democratic Party and are tired of the victim mentality and dependency it fosters.
With all that Trump has accomplished for black America in four years — compared to eight years of the Obama administration — the charge of "you ain't black" if you vote for Trump rings hollow.
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.
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.
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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.'"
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