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In an era where the Democrats have decided the only winning strategy is to run on a platform of Identity Politics, they're going to have to make a tough choice when it comes to Biden's blowing into dog whistles for racism over the years. If they ignore it because it's politically convenient, they will only prove to the country they're big hypocrites.
“In 1984,” Biden joined with South Carolina’s arch-racist Strom Thurmond to sponsor the Crime Control Act, which eliminated parole for federal prisoners and limited the amount of time sentences could be reduced for good behavior. The Hill newspaper reported that Senator Biden “was instrumental in pushing for the [1994] crime bill, which critics have said led to a spike in incarceration, particularly among African Americans.”
Yet Biden is now eager to project an image as a longtime ally of people of color.
“In 1984,” Biden joined with South Carolina’s arch-racist Strom Thurmond to sponsor the Crime Control Act, which eliminated parole for federal prisoners and limited the amount of time sentences could be reduced for good behavior. The Hill newspaper reported that Senator Biden “was instrumental in pushing for the [1994] crime bill, which critics have said led to a spike in incarceration, particularly among African Americans.”
Yet Biden is now eager to project an image as a longtime ally of people of color.
From a racial standpoint, given his history, literally the only thing he has to fall back on is the fact that he was the VP to an African-American president.
“In 1984,” Biden joined with South Carolina’s arch-racist Strom Thurmond to sponsor the Crime Control Act, which eliminated parole for federal prisoners and limited the amount of time sentences could be reduced for good behavior. The Hill newspaper reported that Senator Biden “was instrumental in pushing for the [1994] crime bill, which critics have said led to a spike in incarceration, particularly among African Americans.”
Yet Biden is now eager to project an image as a longtime ally of people of color.
That remark Biden made about Obama being a "clean black" will come back to haunt him.
That's true.
Had he just sat this election out, skeletons like that wouldn't be getting dragged out and people would have had at least an indifferent opinion of his time in Washington.
Jim Crow “snuck in” in the first place because Democrats – members of Biden’s party – wrote, signed, and brutally enforced the South’s Jim Crow laws. This was 100 percent the bloody work of Democrats, not Republicans.
Democrats killed Reconstruction, enacted Jim Crow segregation laws, and deployed their terrorist wing – the Ku Klux Klan – to oppress and murder black men, women, and children, all while Democrats cheered.
So, if Joe Biden is going to invoke Jim Crow, he should start by apologizing for his party’s – the Democrat Party’s – central and indispensable role in inflicting the entire, racist Jim Crow structure on black Americans. Instead he is attempting to project it onto R's.
That remark Biden made about Obama being a "clean black" will come back to haunt him.
What Joe Biden said in his remark is that Obama is not like other black men, implying that the typical black American male is not “clean and articulate” which is an incredibly racist remark. But it’s Joe Biden. When hasn’t he put his foot in his mouth? The liberal press gave him a huge pass a decade ago undoubtedly because he is a Democrat.
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