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Biden Tells Morehouse Grads: "If Black Men Are Being Killed In The Street, What Is Democracy?"
RealClear Politics ^ | 19 May, 2024 | Tim Hains

Posted on 05/20/2024 1:11:54 PM PDT by MtnClimber

President Biden waxed poetic about race in America during a commencement address Sunday at Morehouse College, an HBCU in Georgia:

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Many of you have gone through similar or worse things. But you lean on others. They lean on you. And together, you keep the faith and a better day tomorrow. But it is not easy. I know a number of years ago, it felt like one of those Saturdays.

The pandemic robbed you of so much. Some have lost loved ones, mothers, fathers, brothers, or sisters, and they are not able to be here to celebrate today. You missed your high school graduation.

You started college as George Floyd was murdered, and there was a reckoning on race. It is natural to wonder, if the democracy you hear about actually works for you. What is democracy? If black men are being killed on the street, what is democracy? A trail of broken promises still leaving black communities behind. What is democracy? You have to be ten times better than anyone else to get a fair shot.

Most of all, what does it mean, as we heard before, to be a black man who loves his country, even if it doesn't love him back in equal measure?

[applause]

When I sit behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, in front of the fireplace across from my desk, I have two books: one of Dr. King and one of Bobby Kennedy. I often find myself looking at those and making decisions. I ask myself, "Are we living up to what we say we are as a nation? To end racism and poverty, deliver jobs and justice, and restore leadership in the world?"

I look down and see the rosary around my wrist...

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; demagogue; marxism
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To: aklurker
They won’t be able to hide the cheat when all the polls reveal the impossibility of Biden winning. I’m sure they will try, and try to fake the polls, but it’s getting harder and harder for them to get people to believe them now.

The question is, if the cheat is so obvious? Then what?


41 posted on 05/20/2024 1:59:18 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Liberty Ship

Next we will hear him saying, erections have consequences...


42 posted on 05/20/2024 1:59:23 PM PDT by aklurker
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To: R0CK3T

No one outside conservative circles knows this.


43 posted on 05/20/2024 2:00:10 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: aklurker
erections have consequences

That's certainly true ...

;'}

44 posted on 05/20/2024 2:01:14 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: MtnClimber

Did fjb mention it is blacks killing blacks as ALWAYS!


45 posted on 05/20/2024 2:01:22 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: Redleg Duke
I have a lawn mower, can you swim?

Best response so far in this thread. Perfectly illustrates how insidious and intellectually dishonest the use of hyperbole, half-truths, and non-sequiturs is!

Regards,

46 posted on 05/20/2024 2:02:28 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: drypowder
That's a wristwatch you moron.

Not a "Do Not Revive" band?

Regards,

47 posted on 05/20/2024 2:03:05 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: MtnClimber
If small businesses are forced to lockdown while major retailers stay open, what is democracy?

If churches are forced to lockdown while strip joints stay open, what is democracy?

If baby's can be aborted because we can't invade a woman's body but we can force people to get jabbed with an unproven vaccine, what is democracy?

If a psychological disorder is not allowed to be called such but must be celebrated, what is democracy?

If private businesses are used by government to impose otherwise unconstitutional limitations and penalties, what is democracy?

If courts are abused and lawfare is used to selectively indict and try political opponents, what is democracy?

If the voting process is made open to massive abuse but any mention of that or attempt to improve the process is met with calumny, what is democracy?

If leftwing riots that result in massive property loss and deaths are allowed while peaceful protesters are imprisoned and tortured, what is democracy?

48 posted on 05/20/2024 2:06:47 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

In the 2020 election, there were enough republicans who were willing participants or at least willing to look the other way, cause they hate Trump. This time around, although there are still many of those same Trump hating republicans, I don’t think they hate America enough to let Biden win again via cheating. This clown show running America today inches us closer and closer to WW3, while at the same time downgrading our military with their social experiments and DEI crap.


49 posted on 05/20/2024 2:07:03 PM PDT by aklurker
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To: MtnClimber

What is democracy?

A system in which an emotional mob can take away all rights from any minority opinion and restrict their freedoms of speech and assembly.


50 posted on 05/20/2024 2:09:13 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Foxtrot, Juliet, Bravo


51 posted on 05/20/2024 2:13:09 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

I’d say Biden was circling the drain, if he wasn’t so far
down the toilet by now. And we haven’t even flushed yet.


52 posted on 05/20/2024 2:17:31 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands. )
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To: MtnClimber; All

Iran’s President Dead in Helicopter Crash: Everything You Need to Know

Steven Crowder on Rumble

https://rumble.com/v4wbzer—irans-president-dead-in-helicopter-crash-everything-you-need-to-know.html

Helicopter Crash coverage begins at 47:21

Debunking Joe Biden’s remarks from his Morehouse College Commencement Address begins at: 16:23


53 posted on 05/20/2024 2:18:04 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: MtnClimber

If I was black, that whole speech would have insulted me.


54 posted on 05/20/2024 2:18:52 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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To: DoughtyOne

Biden was circling the drain, but got stuck sideways. Someone is going to have to get a stick and hold their nose to break up the clog.


55 posted on 05/20/2024 2:22:10 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber
"Biden Tells Morehouse Grads: "If Black Men Are Being Killed In The Street, What Is Democracy?"

Biden at graduation ceremony granting licenses to kill.
56 posted on 05/20/2024 2:32:02 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: MtnClimber

how about....when are you dumb a**** going to stop killing each other......


57 posted on 05/20/2024 2:39:15 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: MtnClimber

The dumbest nonsensical sentence I’ve heard all day.


58 posted on 05/20/2024 2:40:19 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MtnClimber

they are being killed because Democrats defunded the police and refuse to prosecute criminals who primary attack, rob, and kill blacks.


59 posted on 05/20/2024 2:43:45 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: MtnClimber

How many potential Trump votes got swayed red in that hour?


60 posted on 05/20/2024 2:46:25 PM PDT by know.your.why (<>)
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