Posted on 08/09/2019 3:25:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
Those who believed America's racial divide would begin to close with the civil rights acts of the 1960s and the election of a black president in this century appear to have been overly optimistic.
The race divide seems deeper and wider than at any time in our lifetimes. Most of the aspiring leaders of the Democratic Party have apparently concluded that branding the president a "racist" and "white supremacist" is the strategy to pursue to win the nomination and the White House.
Here is Joe Biden, speaking in Iowa as President Donald Trump was visiting the wounded communities of Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas: "This president has fanned the flames of white supremacy in this nation. ... The energetic embrace of this president by the darkest hearts and the most hate-filled minds in this country says it all.
"We have a problem with this rising tide of ... white supremacy in America. And we have a president who encourages and emboldens it."
What had Trump done to invite such a charge?
The key piece of evidence linking Trump to the mass murderer of El Paso is a single phrase out of a 2,000-word screed posted on social media, allegedly by the gunman minutes before carrying out his atrocity.
Patrick Crusius said he was striking this blow against the "Hispanic invasion of Texas." And Donald Trump has often used that term, invasion, to describe the crisis on the border.
Yet the word "invasion" to label what is happening on America's Southern border long predated Trump, and, moreover, is both an accurate and valid description.
Those who believed America's racial divide would begin to close with the civil rights acts of the 1960s and the election of a black president in this century appear to have been overly optimistic.
The race divide seems deeper and wider than at any time in our lifetimes. Most of the aspiring leaders of the Democratic Party have apparently concluded that branding the president a "racist" and "white supremacist" is the strategy to pursue to win the nomination and the White House.
Here is Joe Biden, speaking in Iowa as President Donald Trump was visiting the wounded communities of Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas: "This president has fanned the flames of white supremacy in this nation. ... The energetic embrace of this president by the darkest hearts and the most hate-filled minds in this country says it all.
"We have a problem with this rising tide of ... white supremacy in America. And we have a president who encourages and emboldens it."
What had Trump done to invite such a charge?
The key piece of evidence linking Trump to the mass murderer of El Paso is a single phrase out of a 2,000-word screed posted on social media, allegedly by the gunman minutes before carrying out his atrocity.
Patrick Crusius said he was striking this blow against the "Hispanic invasion of Texas." And Donald Trump has often used that term, invasion, to describe the crisis on the border.
Yet the word "invasion" to label what is happening on America's Southern border long predated Trump, and, moreover, is both an accurate and valid description.
Yet, that greatest of the Founding Fathers, George Washington, whom Biden invoked as his beau ideal of a leader, was a slave owner and demonstrably more of a white supremacist than Trump.
And Biden is likely to be reminded of this by Sen. Cory Booker, his rival for the crucial black vote in the primaries, who, as Joe was speaking in Iowa, was at Emanuel AME Zion church in Charleston, South Carolina, tearing into the founding generation of Washington, Jefferson, and Madison:
"Bigotry was written into our founding documents," said Booker. "White supremacy has always been a problem in our American story."
"Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, homophobia, xenophobia, misogyny -- these tactics aren't a new perversion," Booker went on. "They've been ingrained in our politics since our foundation."
Are American voters supposed to respond warmly to this?
Biden's words in Iowa -- "We have a president who has aligned himself with the darkest forces in this nation" -- appear to be a lift from Robert Kennedy's attack on LBJ when Bobby announced for president just days after Lyndon Johnson was badly wounded in the 1968 New Hampshire primary.
Said Bobby of the father of the Civil Right Act of 1964: "Our national leadership is calling upon the darker impulses of the American spirit."
LBJ and his associates, Bobby went on, "have removed themselves from the American tradition, from the enduring and generous impulses that are the soul of this nation."
"We are fighting for the soul of America," echoed Biden in Iowa.
As for Wallace, whom Biden disparages, he was a segregationist, much like Biden's patron, Sen. Jim Eastland of Mississippi, who called Joe "son," and Strom Thurmond, whom Biden eulogized and who conducted the longest filibuster in history -- against the 1957 Civil Rights Act.
In George Wallace's salad days, Joe sang a different tune, telling the Philadelphia Inquirer on Oct. 12, 1975:
"I think the Democratic Party could stand a liberal George Wallace -- someone who's not afraid to stand up and offend people, someone who wouldn't pander but would say what the American people know in their gut is right."
Perhaps Joe can become such a fearless leader in 2020.
They've got nothing to run on (or against) but crazy ideas like socialism/Marxism/communism thanks to Bernie and those who have completely indoctrinated America academia and the media.
They are pathetic.
I find Joe to be highly inspirational. He chooses truth over facts, and he boldly declared that poor kids are just as smart as white kids. I tell ya, he’s a shoe in!
the reason why:
2 Aug: RasmussenReports: Trump Support Up This Week Among Black Voters
Like most Republicans, Trump has struggled to attract black voters, but this week’s surveying for the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll has found a bump in black support for the president. Even with the +/-9 margin of error for the smaller sample, it’s a bump that has held up nearly all week.
Black Approval 2019 Full Week: 32%
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/july_2019/trump_support_up_this_week_among_black_voters?fbclid=IwAR2BBxzTPN-ty7IS-JjF5_eYOoqBjlXIqIlSakZCltq1uBTK6vB09Zj_VrU
17 Jun: RasmussenReports: Voters Say Trump Better for Blacks Than Obama, But More Is Needed
With unemployment for black Americans at an historic low, voters continue to believe President Trump has been better for young blacks than President Obama....
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 33% of Likely U.S. Voters think life for young black Americans has gotten better since Trump’s election. Slightly more (36%) say life is worse for young blacks now, while 22% rate it as about the same. These findings have changed very little from a year ago...
By comparison, in July 2016, Obama’s final year in office, just 13% said life for young black Americans had gotten better since the election of the nation’s first black president...
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/social_issues/voters_say_trump_better_for_blacks_than_obama_but_more_is_needed
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Here lies America, Killed by Leftist MultiCulturalism - R.I.P.
<< Most of the aspiring leaders of the Democratic Party have apparently concluded that branding the president a “racist” and “white supremacist” is the strategy to pursue to win the nomination and the White House. >>
Not just branding the President, but also those who support him. Especially those who support him on the border security issue, which includes most independents and a whole bunch of blue collar white Democrats as well. That’s a strategy for sure defeat for the Dems. Hope they keep it.
he’s a shoe in!
You're discriminating against people who go barefoot.;-)
LOL!!!
Don’t need no stinking shoes here in Kentucky.
Who wants to vote for someone that hates our country so much??
dems keep this up and they will get clobbered in 2020
Yes they are. Screw them.
The Rats would vote for anybody or anything to get rid of Trump. Even a brain dead cauliflower.
Agree, and Agree.
Slow Joe is an expert on race. How else could he have come up with a statement like this one...
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
Projection in all its intimate and revealing glory.
The Democrats are the party of division and blatant racism, choosing a coalition of sometimes very disparate minorities and pitting them one against the other, as in black versus Hispanic, legals versus illegals, urban poor versus rural poor, all the time claiming to be the “referees” who would make things “fair” for these squabbling groups.
Then along came Donald Trump, who actually DID begin to settle these squabbles among those groups, mainly by providing economic opportunity that lifted the common squalor from the shoulders of all concerned, and separated the more critical thinkers in these minorities, elevating them on the basis of merit, and for the first time in forever, giving then REAL voice in the affairs of the nation. For the specific differences between legal immigrants and those who entered the country in contravention of existing laws regarding visas and establishment of legal residency, the enforcement of the law has become the paramount objective, and a great relief was felt in the community of LEGAL and naturalized citizens, as contrasted with the incursions of these imposters who had swarmed over the border in recent years, and tried to pass as citizens.
The American Dream is alive, but needs to be nourished and nursed back to full health before it is again well.
Joe ain’t the one to do it. Nor are any of the whole current crop of Democrat “national socialists”.
Biden is subtle and crafty but he is a serious racist as his history proves.
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