Posted on 07/20/2020 2:38:36 PM PDT by catnipman
Yep, a nothingburger.
It undermines the guy who posted the video with that title. Put in the right and true context it is damaging to Biden. I’m sure the video exists without all that person’s editing, and I’m sure we’ll be seeing clips of the speech again in campaign ads.
Yeah, you've said that about twenty times on this thread. You should be proud.
For speaking the truth in the midst of people deliberately trying to spread a lie? Yeah, I guess I am sort of proud now that you mention it. Lying about our opponent will only undermine our own candidate in the long run. A lie against Biden won't withstand the fawning media committed to defending him at any cost. Biden has made so many cringe inducing, racial offensive blunders in his other speeches that it is stupid to lie about him being racist in one of the few speeches where he actually wasn't.
[We are in a war.]
That is for certain, FRiend.
Did the 1994 Crime Bill mention race?
No.
But it is considered to be a piece of legislation harmful to minorities.
This is Biden talking about why Congress must pass the 1994 Crime Bill.
No need to reference race. Just, This is Biden’s support for the 1994 crime bill that incarcerated many minorities.
Trump has made prison reform a priority and will continue to do so.
Biden will not.
tx
He has to mention blacks or at least racial minorities, or this is of no use
But he DID say 'criminals' and what does the actual data say about them?
What makes what Biden said “racist”?
But since he did NOT mention race; just 'criminals'; we'll have to look at the racial makeup of 'criminals'.
Do we see any pattern emerging?
According to the US Department of Justice, African Americans accounted for 52.5% of all homicide offenders from 1980 to 2008, with Whites 45.3% and "Other" 2.2%. The offending rate for African Americans was almost eight times higher than Whites, and the victim rate six times higher. Most homicides were intraracial, with 84% of White victims killed by Whites and 93% of African American victims killed by African Americans.[42][43][44] /
In 2013, African Americans accounted for 52.2% of all murder arrests, with Whites 45.3% and Asians/indigenous Americans 2.5%. Of the above, 21.7% were Hispanic.[45][46]
Blacks account for the majority of gun homicide victims and arrestees in the US while Whites (including Hispanics) account for the majority of non-gun homicide victims and arrestees. Of the gun murder victims in the United States between 2007 and 2016, 57% were black, 40.6% white (including Hispanic), 1.35% Asian, 0.98% unknown race and 0.48% indigenous American. Non-gun homicides represented about 30% of total murders in the time period. Blacks were also over-represented in such homicides, although only by about 2.5 times their share of the general population.[47] Of the non-gun murder victims in the United States between 2007 to 2016, 61.5% were white (including Hispanic), 32.9% black, 2.29% Asian, 1.89% unknown race and 1.43% indigenous American.[48]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States
Liberal: I didn’t hear Trump say that. If it’s not in there, then we'll just make it up!
Next job: police dispatcher, broadcasting a highly detailed description of what a perp was wearing, car driven, direction of escape from a crime scene; without ever mentioning the obvious - the RACE OF THE PERP.
Well; we still have THIS:
We will have to find one like this without the captions that I guess were trying to summarize but would make me look like a racist if I showed it to people. Honestly Joe Biden seemed to make sense in what he was saying back then. I was only 14 when this video was taken but he seemed to be a lot better then most Dems. He stood up for Clarence Thomas also. He sold his soul to the leftists to get promoted the way he was the past 13 years
Our side is never going to win by accepting the PC left's game and ground rules. Yet that's exactly what Republicans who play the PC card and childishly say "Nuh-uh, YOU'RE the racist!" are doing. If you accept the premise that saying politically incorrect things is something terrible, then you've already let the Left win by accepting their ground rules and their game.
There are plenty of things to hate and criticize about Biden, this or his alleged friendships with Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms aren't one of them. Biden needs to be attacked for his steady leftward march rather than for the handful of sensible things that he did and said back when he was a semi-sane moderate.
Biden was talking about the Sharks and the Jets! :-D
but dare we use the word ‘dogwhistle’ ? [giggle]
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