Posted on 06/07/2020 8:55:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former Vice President Joe Biden penned an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times on Saturday about the tragic death and unjust death of George Floyd. According to Biden, President Donald Trump lacks the leadership the country needs, especially in the face of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic and the death of Floyd, both of which he believes are a result of "systemic racism."
On Friday, in discussing a jobs report that made clear some 20 million Americans remain unemployed, Donald Trump said he hoped that George Floyd was “looking down and seeing this is a great day for our country.”
He invoked the name of a man brutally killed in an act of needless violence and a larger tide of injustice that has metastasized on this president’s watch to celebrate a jobs report that included an unemployment rate of 35% among black youth.
Systemic racism affects every aspect of our society. COVID-19 is ravaging our country, with almost 110,000 people now dead, but it is killing black people at almost 2.5 times the rate as white people.
When President Trump talked about the jobs numbers on Friday, he was celebrating the fact that things are turning around, that unemployment – especially amongst blacks – is trending downward again. Remember: before the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, the unemployment rate for African Americans and Hispanics was at a record low. We went from having record-low unemployment to record-high unemployment in the span of weeks because the country was forced to shut down to prevent the spread of the virus.
Biden's campaign has banked on the fact that unemployment skyrocketed. They wanted to swoop in and say that Biden was the answer to this crisis, that he wouldn't have made the same decisions Trump did. But what would he have done differently? Would he have closed the entire economy – even more so than Trump did – and sent us into a full-fledged Depression? He continually hits Trump over his actions or inaction but never says what he would do if he were president. It's easy to attack, especially when you don't have any real policy agenda.
The truth is this: the coronavirus impacts each and every one of us although those effects differs. The economy shutting down impacts business owners, both large and small, white and black. It impacts Americans, both black and white, the same when they can't go to work, feed their families or keep a roof over their head. The virus ravages those who have pre-existing conditions, many of which include African Americans. We know that. But the virus is blind. It doesn't merely pick out people based on the color of their skin. To make it sound like this virus ravaging the black community is somehow Trump's fault is not only wrong but grotesque. If we want to talk about what leads to those preexisting conditions we can. Automatically slapping the term "racism" on those pre-existing conditions doesn't go dig deep enough.
The worst part of Biden's OpEd though is the notion that he is somehow the "progress" at the end of one of the nation's "darkest moments."
History teaches us that our darkest moments have produced some of our greatest progress. The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments followed the Civil War. The greatest economy in the history of the world grew out of the Great Depression. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 came in the tracks of Bull Connor’s vicious attack dogs unleashed on those pushing for change. Let us make this, too, a moment of action to deliver long-overdue, concrete policies to reverse systemic racism, and to propel us across this turbulent threshold into an era of true equality and opportunity.
If elected, I am committed to establishing a national police oversight commission within 100 days of taking office. We need to implement real community policing and ensure that every police department in the country undertakes a comprehensive review of their hiring, their training, and their de-escalation practices, with the federal government providing the tools and resources needed to implement reforms. But, we cannot wait for new leadership to make reforms. Congress should take action immediately to outlaw chokeholds, stop the transfer of weapons of war to local police forces, improve oversight and accountability, and create a model use-of-force standard.
It's amazing that Biden is still trying to make himself out to be the only choice candidate for those who want "racial equality" when just a few weeks ago he told Charlamagne tha God that "you ain't black" if he supported Trump.
This screed may be attributed to Plugs, but it is a very safe bet that one of his Keepers wrote it for him. Honestly, he couldn’t hold a single semi-coherent thought if his miserable existence depended upon it.
Uh, so pedo joe, NOW the alleged ‘systemic racism” is an imperative? What were you and your POS pals in CONgress doing for the past 40+ years. And pedo joe with 8 years as vp in the obxxx white house? Didn’t seem to important then to you and your pals. So, basically, to pedo joe and his pals——fah Q!
A lot of politicians are (easily) taking territory now, that they are going to regret holding in a few months.
Interesting he didn’t pat himself on the back for writing the Crime Bill he used to crow about.
so why did FauXi fund the racist virus Atrocity?
why patent the racist virus Atrocity?
and why should the CDC and FDA and FauXi and Soros and
Gates and Wu and WHO and their hidden FOR-PROFIT companies
disguised as “agencies”
PROFIT from the racist virus Atrocity?
In other words, you'll lead the effort to repeal The Crime Bill you used to crow about writing.
Yes Joe, how did the systemic racism in the system put a black guy in the White House while he was NOT the president?
Joe didn’t write this. Joe would be incapable of penning an op-ed. While Joe’s “people” may or may not represent his views, the important thing to keep in mind is that the man is pathetic puppet at this point.
Surprise? The dems weaponized a deadly virus created by their close buddies, the Chinese, who are paying big bucks to get Trump out of the White House.
So they weaponized a man’s death too. SOP for dems.
No doubt. Biden is now just a buffoon with dementia.
He may still get prosecuted for money laundering along with half of Congress, that is what this is all about.
Today, Biden's OpEd promises he is “the progress" at the end of one of the nation's "darkest moments" and is committed to:
<><> establishing a national police oversight commission within 100 days of taking office.
<><> to implement real community policing
<><> to ensure that every police department in the country undertakes a comprehensive review of hiring, training, and de-escalation practices,
<><> suggests Congress should take action immediately to outlaw chokeholds,
<><> to stop the transfer of weapons of war to local police forces, improve oversight and accountability, and create a model use-of-force standard.
My, my how Biden changes with the times.....his motto is "forget what I say.....just go with the flow."
In May 1991, then-Sen Biden hastened to the strong defense of cops and authored a bill that provided greater protections
to cops accused of misconduct. Biden’s “Police Officer’s Bill of Rights Act” strengthened protections for accused officers.
<><>The Biden law streamlined all police misconduct investigations nationwide, so that every department followed identical standards.
<><> The Biden bill restricted when and how police misconduct investigations could take place,
<><> Biden’s bill limited interviews to one interrogator at a time and required accused officers be represented by counsel.
<><> State and city govts were forbidden from questioning an officer’s finances or asking about the finances of their family.
<><> The Biden bill authorized “a cause of action in State court by the officer for recovery of damages,
<><> The Biden bill called for full reinstatement of a l/e agency that materially violated Biden-enumerated Cops' Rights (w/ specified limitations).
A modified version was included in the Biden-Thurmond Violent Crime Control Act of 1991 which was later included in Bill Clinton’s controversial 1994 crime bill. Hilary vociferously endorsed Bill Clinton’s controversial 1994 crime bill, deriding Blacks as “super-predators” in her public comments.
The “press” should demand to know who wrote that steamin’ pile.
That's VERY good.
his handlers wrote that and writes all his speaking comments...joe is so lost he is lucky to know how to spell his name.
They can spread all the fairy tales they like...Americans sees what this POTUS has done and will continue to do...
VOTE STRAIGHT RED in November...enough said...
One can understand why Biden finished at the bottom end of his class and only could get one degree.
Basic misrepresentation of facts.
Black unemployment climbed to the highest in more than a decade in May...
Bottom of the class? He was nowhere academically.
He probably bribed the prof to pass him.
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