Democrat presumptive candidate Joe Biden emerged from his basement recently to announce that President Trump is the most racist president the United States has ever had. That statement, which I am about to fact check, is wrong on two levels. Despite the attempts of the left to consistently call President Trump a racist, he is not. He has repeatedly decried white supremacists and the KKK as evil and un-American. He expressed as much horror at the death of black man George Floyd’s when a white officer knelt on his neck for eight minutes as did every other American. He, and we, would have been equally horrified when two white men died the same way beneath the knees of police in other locals, and had the national media reported their deaths, George Floyd might be alive today.
But don’t take my word for the fact that the President is not racist. Ask instead the black ministers with whom he has met several times to discuss ways to improve the lives of black Americans. According to Pastor Darrell Scott, a member of the President’s National Diversity Coalition, President Trump is the “most pro-black president ever.” Then ask the blacks who got jobs as we saw the lowest black unemployment historically before the pandemic struck. Ask those in the Enterprise Zones created in poor communities to help these blacks work themselves out of poverty. Ask Alice Marie Johnson, a black first time drug offender who had been sentenced to life in prison and had served 21 years of it until President Trump commuted her sentence and made her a free woman. Ask black Democrat lawmaker Karen Whitsett who heard President Trump talk about the great results doctors world-wide were having with Hydroxychloroquine to cure COVID-19. She asked her doctor to use it when she was stricken and both she and her doctor credit both the drug and the president for saving her life. Ask Secretary of Housing and Urban Renewal Dr. Ben Carson and Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao. Ask the 65% of probable Hispanic voters who have a favorable view of President Trump or the 34% of likely black voters who approve of him.
As for Biden’s comment “ We’ve had racists, and they’ve existed, they’ve tried to get elected president. He’s the first one that has,” let’s take a look at some previous presidents of both parties from just the 20thth century on.
Republican: Theodore Roosevelt’s administration was one of the first that was openly opposed to civil rights and suffrage for blacks. He believed that to debase the black population would in the end debase the white population as well, but he was for a gradual change. In a speech to the Republican Club in New York City in 1905 he called white Americans the forward race who had the responsibility of raising the status of minorities by training these “backward races” in industrial efficiency, political capacity and domestic morality.
Democrat: Woodrow Wilson – While serving as the president of Princeton University, Wilson said, “The whole temper and tradition of the place [Princeton] are such that no Negro has ever applied for admission, and it seems unlikely that the question will ever assume practical form.” As president he signed legislation making interracial marriage illegal in Washington DC, presided over a segregated the army, and did not let many blacks fight in WWI. When a delegation came to the White House to protest that order, he informed them that “segregation is not a humiliation but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.”
Wilson screened the film The Birth of a Nation in the White House, the very first film to ever be shown there. The film is based on the book, The Clansman by Thomas Dixon, a friend and classmate of Wilson, and is, obviously, highly racist. Wilson is quoted from his book, A History of the American People in the film. In the book he wrote, “The white men of the South were aroused by the mere instinct of self-preservation to rid themselves, by fair means or foul, of the intolerable burden of governments sustained by the votes of ignorant negroes and conducted in the interest of adventurers.”
Democrat: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the longest serving president, claimed that “Japanese immigrants are not capable of assimilation into the American population. Anyone who has traveled in the Far East knows that the mingling of Asiatic blood with European or American blood produces, in nine cases out of ten, the most unfortunate results.”
He boasted of not having “Jewish blood” in his veins, and was proud to have helped institute a quota on the admission of Jews to Harvard.
As an adult and president, he frequently used the “n” word to refer to blacks and as a teenager once called them “semi-beasts.”
Republican: Dwight Eisenhower – A year before Brown vs. the Board of Education which desegregated schools, President Eisenhower had told Chief Justice Earl Warren at a White House dinner that he could understand why White southerners didn’t want “their sweet little girls required to sit in school alongside some big black buck.”
Republican: Richard Nixon was not only racist, but a paranoid, hateful man as proven by his tapes which were released in the early 1970s. He considered Jews as communists who were out to legalize marijuana, ancient Greeks and Romans were a bunch of “fags,” and African Americans were “Negro bastards” who would rather live on welfare like a “bunch of dogs.” He did offer black Americans this faint praise when he said, “They are coming along, and that after all they are going to strengthen our country in the end because they are strong physically and some of them are smart.”
Democrat: Lyndon Johnson, despite signing the Republican sponsored and pushed Civil Rights Bills, was a racist who considered people of color to be inferior. In the 1940s he called Asians “hordes of barbaric yellow dwarves.” As a congressman, he always voted with the bloc of Southern Democrats who thwarted civil rights bills at every turn. When, as president, he appointed Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court over a black judge who was not so well known, he explained privately, “When I appoint a nigger to the bench, I want everybody to know he’s a nigger.” He later complained that “negroes” were “getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up the uppityness.”
The examples of Johnson’s racism are myriad, but I’ll end with this: When his black chauffeur said he preferred to be called by name rather than “boy,” “nigger,” or “chief,” Johnson replied, “As long as you are black, and you’re gonna be black till the day you die, no one’s gonna call you by your goddamn name. So no matter what you are called, nigger, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you’ll make it. Just pretend you’re a goddamn piece of furniture.”
Democrat: Barack Obama supported the increase of welfare programs which adversely affected blacks and Hispanics more than poor whites as noted in 2014 by HHS. Under his administration, members of the Black Caucus began to “routinely either allege outright racism or exhibit racist attitudes themselves if opposition [arose] to the Obama agenda” (National Review Online). He and his administration used identity politics to divide Americans by race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, wealth, and anything else that can be used to divide, confuse and polarize. This division of the American people, led by President Obama and his friends and allies, many of whom like David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett had professional or family ties to socialism and communism, has led to the divisive country in which we find ourselves today.
When he could have been the cool head, as in the cases of the shooting of black men in Florida and in East St. Louis, he rushed to take the part of the black victim, and when his own Department of Justice found both shootings to be justified, he never said a word to tamp down the anger and violence provoked by lies about the killings. He used racism as a weapon against the very white America who had optimistically elected him as our first black president.
As for Joe Biden who made this outrageous claim, not only was he a part of the Obama administration that saw huge unemployment among the black population, he has his own legacy of racism. As a congressman he voted for anti-busing legislation which would allow black students to attend good schools in the white suburbs. He teamed up with segregationist Jesse Helms to propose a bill that would take away the government’s ability to withhold public funds from schools who didn’t segregate. He supported the crime bill that put myriads of young black men in prison for minor drug charges. He was proud to have won an award from segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace. He honored a former Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, worried that his kids might grow up in a “racial jungle,” bragged that he was from a former slave state, repeatedly used the “n” word, was surprised that Barack Obama was such a “clean” and “articulate” black man, and most recently informed blacks that they weren’t black if they didn’t support him for the presidency. That a man with this racist history would dare to label another man without such a background as a racist is ludicrous.
Accusation: “ We’ve had racists, and they’ve existed, they’ve tried to get elected president. He’s (President Trump’s) the first one that has.”
Factual Finding: Absolutely false in every way.