For the four years of his presidency and even during his run for office, Democrats and the media persistently accused President Trump of racism, twisting his comments and often taking them totally out of context in order to prove their point. They accused this man, whose daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren are Jewish, of supporting neo-Nazis and calling them good people (which of course only required a little judicious editing of his actual comments). They accused this man of being a racist for simply barring people from entering the U.S. from the countries which the Obama administration had declared to be failed states, unable to ascertain whether or not someone coming from their countries was in a terrorist organization or not. That these were all Muslim countries is true, but they were only a tiny percentage of the Muslim countries in the world and Muslims from countries like France and Great Britain were not affected either in this so-called “Muslim ban.” Yet the media whipped the young radicals into a frenzy over keeping possible terrorists out of our country! Despite the charges, President Trump worked harder and accomplished more for the black community than any recent president, as evidenced by the comments of many well-known African Americans. Alveda King, Martin Luther King Jr’s niece wrote in a column in the Des Moines Register early in Trump’s presidency, “In reality, though, President Trump has done more for black Americans in just over two years than Biden has done in five decades as a public official.” Pastor Darrell Scott commented “This president “has been the most pro-black president in my lifetime.” But with our current president, things are different.
The media has been notoriously silent over our current president, carefully helping cover up his declining mental stability as well as his history of racism. He joins the ranks of FDR, Woodrow Wilson, Richard Nixon, and Barack Obama as modern-day racists. (In Obama’s case, of course, his racism was directed toward white people rather than people of color.) But Joe Biden, President Asterisk, has a long and storied history of racism. He entered Congress when Democrats were solidly against the equality of blacks if that meant that blacks had to share their churches, their schools, theirs water fountains, or sit next to them on buses. And, as a young Senator from Delaware, Biden learned quickly how to play the game. He became friends with segregationists like James O. Eastland and Strom Thurmond. Eastland once explained, “I have no prejudice in my heart, but the white race is the superior race and the Negro race an inferior race and the races must be kept separate by law.” Wow! Biden once quipped in a speech,” I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland. He never called me boy. He always called me son.” “Boy” of course, is a pejorative term that was historically used by white supremacists to demean a black man to whom they were speaking.
When the issue of desegregation arose, Biden was solidly with his Delaware constituents, describing Delaware’s school desegregation as “the most racist concept you can come up with” in 1975. Two years later, his views on busing to achieve desegregation were equally racist. In a Congressional hearing in 1977, he warned of a future where his children would be forced into a “racial jungle.” In an interview 32-year-old Biden explained, “I think the concept of busing . . . that we are going to integrate people so that they all have the same access and they learn to grow up with one another and all the rest is a rejection of the whole movement of black pride, is a rejection of the entire black awareness concept where black is beautiful, black culture should be studied, and the cultural awareness of the importance of their own individuality.” Yes, let’s keep them segregated for their own good, like Democrats are doing today with their black-only dorms and college graduation ceremonies!
Delaware essentially managed not to desegregate their schools through skillful legal maneuvering and through the withdrawal of large numbers of white students from the public, schools. These white students were enrolled in private schools where a good third of them remain today. The mostly black public schools remain poorly funded and staffed.
But Biden’s racist comments and actions have not been solely directed toward blacks. While still a Delaware Senator he said, “In Delaware the largest growth in population is Indian Americans. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.”
In 1984, Biden spearheaded a civil-forfeiture bill with South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmand, who had given the longest filibuster in the Senate’s history to block civil rights legislation in 1957. The Biden bill allowed police departments to seize private property of any kind that they say has been involved in a crime or the proceeds of a crime and sell it. It is legalized theft, and it weighs most heavily on the black community where a young black man caught selling a small amount of drugs on the street could lose everything that his family owns, even if he himself is never arrested for the supposed “crime.” Since 1999 alone, the federal government took in over 36.5 billion dollars in seized assests, mostly from the poor and the black community.
In 1986 Biden co-authored the Anti-Drug Abuse Act during the crack cocaine epidemic. It increased mandatory sentences for crack cocaine users, who were mostly black, with lesser sentences for powder cocaine users, who were mostly white.
In 1994, Biden drafted the now infamous crime bill which was signed into law by then President Bill Clinton (who once said to Ted Kennedy about Obama, “A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.”). The crime bill created 60 new death penalty offenses and created the “three strikes and you’re out” rule which forced judges to give life sentences for minor crimes if they had been preceded by two convictions for “serious” or “violent” crimes. Since then people have died in prison for stealing coins from a car, breaking into a soup kitchen, or possessing less than a single gram of a drug.
Speaking of presidential candidate Barack Obama, Biden once quipped, “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
During the 2016 presidential race, Biden, speaking of candidate Trump to a Virginia audience containing many blacks warned, “He said in the first 100 days, he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules. Unchain Wall Street! They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.” Instead, President Trump gave them jobs and the lowest unemployment rate in history!
During an interview, Biden was asked about the legacy of slavery and he responded, “We bring social workers into homes of parents to help them deal with how to raise their children. It’s not that they don’t want to help, they don’t want — they don’t know quite what to do.” Thus, according to him, all black adults are poor parents!
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden made a number of racist comments that should have disqualified him in the eyes of many black voters, but the media again came to his defense and either ignored his comments or explained them away.
While giving a speech on education in Iowa he said, “We should challenge students in these schools. We have this notion that somehow if you’re poor you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids. Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids — no I really mean it, but think how we think about it.”
Then, during a radio interview, he told all black voters, “Well I tell you what, If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
In a video conference with Hispanic and black journalists he explained “What you all know but most people don’t know, unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.” So blacks can’t think for themselves.
During another video conference he was asked by Errol Barnett of CBS News, a black reporter, about his having taken a cognitive test. Biden got very upset and cried “No, I haven’t taken a test. Why the hell would I take a test? Come on, man! That’s like saying you, before you got in this program, you’re taking a test whether you’re taking cocaine or not. What do you think, huh? Are you a junkie?”
In another speech he spoke of people who were having to stay in their homes because of COVID, “They’re saying, ‘Jeez, the reason I was able to stay sequestered in my home is because some Black woman was able to stack the grocery shelf,'”
What Biden did not learn from his segregationist friends in Congress, he learned from serving as vice president to the first black president, Barack Obama, who despite his racism towards white Americans indulged in mass incarcerations, surveillance of both American citizens and our allies abroad, imperialism, theft of land from Native Americans, and other policies that disproportionately targeted people of color. Biden learned well from his mentors through the years, and those things that he can remember, he puts to good use. But perhaps his most telling statement in light of his past are these words of his: “I’m not sorry for anything that I have ever done.”
Note: Everything in this article including all of the quotes have been retrieved from a number of different sources including CNN.com, Fox News.com, nytimes.com, bostonglobe.,com and others.