Biden was never a friend of colored folks
As power-addicted President Biden tries to cling to power and Democrats cajole him to quit, as a colored person may I dare say the 46th president either jailed or killed colored folks all his life.
All his life he loved the three-letter word: war.
From war on drugs, to war on crimes, to war on terror (Afghanistan and Iraq), war in Libya, war in Syria, war in Ukraine and war against hapless Palestinians that has killed at least 40,000 directly and nearly 1,50,000 indirectly— but Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., 81, refused to call out Israel on its genocide. He remains on the hotline with Hitler-like Benjamin Netanyahu.
In his interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Biden claimed he was “running the world” and that he would drop out of the U.S. presidential race “if the Lord Almighty came down and said, ‘Joe, get out of the race,’ I’d get out of the race.”
I am shocked not only at the level of stunted white intellect but also the low standard of white decency.
Thomas Friedman, one of the best friends of Israel, writing in The New York Times, called Biden, “good man in obvious cognitive and physical decline.”
In the same newspaper, George Clooney wrote, “I love Joe Biden. As a senator. As a vice president and as president. I consider him a friend, and I believe in him. Believe in his character. Believe in his morals.”
And Peter Welch, the saner of the two U.S. senators from the state of Vermont— the other being Bernie Sanders who is uncharacteristically brown nosing Biden—, wrote in the Washington Post, “He is a man of uncommon decency. He cares deeply about our democracy. He has been one of the best presidents of our time.”
Jon Lovett, one of the three cute White boys— now men— of the Obama White House, described Biden thus, “The empathetic, decent, big-hearted leader, forged in loss and grief, finding the good in his friends and opponents, in love with America, arms wide and open with space for everyone.”
Of course, being liberals their comments about Biden’s arch rival Donald Trump was not flattering to say the least. Based upon his tweets, Trump was maybe a good fit for a mayoral post in a small, all white small town in the American boon docks. Against the sane counsel of some Conservative, Trump remained unhinged in his tweets and his wrong stance on Covid proved to be his undoing 2020.
Also, Trump’s mistake was he allowed fringe right groups to latch on to his celebrity status.
However, in the context of historical objectivity, Trump may not be as bad as the so-called founding fathers. According to the Miller Center of the University of Virginia, “Twelve of the 18 presidents who held office between 1789 and 1877 owned slaves in various capacities: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James Polk, Zachary Taylor, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses Grant.”
Trump’s support base, nonetheless, are White Supremacists who are petrified over the browning of America and thus tied to Trump as if in tribal fealty and are willing to overlook almost of his political flaws and character defects.
It was goodness on the part of Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) that he reaffirmed his support for President Biden on Tuesday as concerns about his viability continue to mount. Clyburn, who played a major role in getting Black votes for Biden in 2020, kept singing “We’re ridin’ with Biden,” as he exited a closed-door meeting with House members, according to a WCBD news report. Many senior Black citizens remain loyal to Biden the same way the rural white poor are sticking with Trump.
However, most colored people whether at home or overseas, have no love lost with Biden. President Biden’s unique role in the war on drugs led to the mass incarceration of Blacks nationwide, according to the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP). In 1986, then-Senator Joe Biden authored the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986–a critical component of the broader War on Drugs that devastated low-income communities of color through mass criminalization and systemic police violence. The law strengthened carceral disparities between Black and white drug users by mandating a five-year minimum sentence for trafficking five grams of crack cocaine while requiring 500 grams of the chemically equivalent powder cocaine to incur the same conviction. Later in 1994, Sen. Biden spearheaded a deeply controversial crime bill that funded 100,000 new cops and accelerated mass incarceration by increasing federal funding to states that impose harsher sentences.”
According to Brookings Institution, “Because crack is a cheaper alternative to powder cocaine, it is more prominent in low-income neighborhoods. These neighborhoods are more likely to be predominately Black and in urban areas that can be overpoliced more easily than suburban or rural areas. While the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, enacted under the Obama-Biden administration, reduced the crack/powder cocaine disparity from 100:1 to 18:1, the damage had been done, and its effects continue to this day.”
The two laws were both brainchild of Biden and played havoc with millions of Black lives.
An Associated Press review of federal and state incarceration data shows that, between 1975 and 2019, the U.S. prison population jumped from 240,593 to 1.43 million Americans. Among them, about 1 in 5 people were incarcerated with a drug offense listed as their most serious crime, according to a PBS news report.
The report said the racial disparities reveal the war's uneven toll. Following the passage of stiffer penalties for crack cocaine and other drugs, the Black incarceration rate in America exploded from about 600 per 100,000 people in 1970 to 1,808 in 2000. In the same timespan, the rate for the Latino population grew from 208 per 100,000 people to 615, while the white incarceration rate grew from 103 per 100,000 people to 242.
In the fall of 2002, Biden committed what anti-war activists call the “original sin,” according to an article in Vox.
The Intercept reported Biden’s word when the lesser Bush opted for war in Iraq based on the false propaganda that it had weapons of mass destruction. “I do not believe this is a rush to war. I believe it is a march to peace and security,” Biden said at the time. “I believe that failure to overwhelmingly support this resolution is likely to enhance the prospects that war will occur.”
According to The Intercept, after the war began, Biden continued to defend the invasion and his vote. “Nine months ago, I voted with my colleagues to give the president of the United States of America the authority to use force, and I would vote that way again today,” Biden said in July 2003. “It was a right vote then, and it’d be a correct vote today.” Later
During the first Gulf War, Biden had initially opposed the war but The Intercept reported, later in 1993, he said, “I think I was proven to be wrong.”
Immediately following the war, Biden co-sponsored a resolution, titled “Commending the President and the Armed Forces for the success of Operation Desert Storm,” that said Congress “applauds” Bush and Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney.
Friedman implored, “One would hope that his wife and family, who surely know the extent of his physical and mental frailties, would prevail upon him to step aside, but they won’t — seemingly oblivious to the risk this is posing to the country and the whole Biden legacy.”
Clooney wrote, “Top Democrats — Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi — and senators, representatives and other candidates who face losing in November need to ask this president to voluntarily step aside.”
But I doubt donor-dependent Schumer and Jeffries, both artful careerist politicians who care most about their jobs than anything else, can rise up to demands of the hour.
Clooney wrote, “I have led some of the biggest fund-raisers in my party’s history. Barack Obama in 2012. Hillary Clinton in 2016. Joe Biden in 2020. Last month I co-hosted the single largest fund-raiser supporting any Democratic candidate ever, for President Biden’s re-election…”
"It's devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fundraiser was not the Joe 'big F-ing deal' Biden of 2010.
"He wasn't even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate."
Many people are to Biden’s age though in reality it is not his age but health condition. Many octogenarians and nonagenarians remain mentally alert, but Biden has dementia with Sundown Syndrome. As many as 17 percent Americans in the age group 75 to 84 have dementia. In fact Biden may even have what is called rapidly progressing dementia (RPD). “There is a marked difference in the president from the spring to the summer,” a senior Democrat told CNN. “He’s just not the same.”
Clooney, who likes the company of intellectual women from the Middle East and is friends with Pakistan’s Fatima Bhutto, spelled a Biden doomsday scenario for not only Biden but the entire Democratic Party establishment who would lose both chambers of Congress with Biden at the lead.
But Biden is refusing to budge, reportedly under pressure of his felonious son Hunter Biden and his over ambitious wife Jill Biden, who prefers the honorific “Dr.” — her former hubby Bill Stevenson challenges her respectability and says she cheated on him.
I remember a gay Catholic friend in Washington DC tell me during the primaries in 2019 that he was with his “good old Uncle Joe.”
Maybe he is a good man in the eyes of whites just like Queen Elizabeth was in the eyes of the Washington Post that treated her as a white saint. I personally prefer White liberals over white conservatives, but when it comes to Biden what Malcom X said was not entirely wrong, “The white conservatives aren't friends of the Negro either, but they at least don't try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But the white liberals are foxes, who also show their teeth to the Negro but pretend that they are smiling. The white liberals are more dangerous than the conservatives; they lure the Negro, and as the Negro runs from the growling wolf, he flees into the open jaws of the ‘smiling’ fox.”
Lastly, the presidential debate on June 27 at CNN’s Atlanta headquarters was pathetic. Two old white men, calling each other liars and launching personal attacks on one another was a disgrace.
The specter of Trump returning is worrisome for progressive forces around the world. “BE WARNED! Trump is leading Biden by 6 points!,” international human and gay rights defenderPeter Tatchell tweeted last week.
“Biden must go now,” Peter Tatchell, who challenged many dictators face to face and even Putin in Moscow, said in a text message Thursday.
The future of U.S. seems uncertain at this point. From a two-party system controlled by dark money such as AIPAC, it has decomposed into a two white men system. But maybe it is good news for the rest of the world: U.S. imperialism which has committed so many crimes against humanity since the day White Europeans set foot on the American soil, may finally be on its death bed.