In my last article, Sexual Assault as a Political Weapon, I highlighted how Democrats avoid public scrutiny by telling outrageous lies. It may be counter-intuitive to anyone with an ounce of integrity, but if you are a Democrat it is much more advantageous to tell a ridiculous outright falsehood than to moderately stretch the truth. The explanation for this is simple: For most of us, the shame we feel when we get caught in a lie is proportional to how blatant the lie is. Therefore, when we see someone telling a whopper of a lie right before our eyes, our immediate reaction often is to assume that we must be mistaken. We simply can’t comprehend that anyone could be so brazen. We also may assume that such an obviously preposterous lie is so transparent that there is no need to strenuously object. The flaws in our logic are twofold: Democrats have no shame; and there are many more uninformed people than we realize. Furthermore, the overwhelmingly Democrat media rarely fact checks a Democrat.
Joe Biden’s team clearly learned that lesson long ago, which is why they have the incredible audacity to paint Biden as a racial justice savior and Republicans as unabashed racists. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. Democrats’ (and their media lackeys’) tactic of labeling every policy that doesn’t benefit them as racist is effective for several reasons. First, it immediately halts honest evaluation of the merits of the policy. More importantly, it demonizes their opponents as racists while reinforcing their goody-goody facade to their intellectually uncurious base. It’s win-win-win for the Democrats. They get to ram their power-grab policies through, attract more naive voters, and marginalize critical thought. However, Biden’s close to 50 years in the public eye has left a long trail of documented overtly racist remarks and actions that are easily discover-able by anyone with the slightest interest in learning the truth.
Joe Biden’s bigoted comments have long been excused by his fellow Democrats with the logic: “Oh no, Joe isn’t a racist–he’s just an idiot.” Though Biden is masterful at making the latter part of that statement thoroughly convincing, I don’t buy it. Joe Biden is a plagiarist and a liar, but I don’t think you can get to be president by being a complete idiot. His comments are too numerous, consistent, and longstanding to be dismissed as simple gaffes. The bumbling Uncle Joe shtick is an effective cover for Biden’s illegal self-serving insider deals, creepy behavior with women, and long history of blatant racism.
Ironically, this first example occurred in 2008 while Biden was overtly pandering to someone he assumed to be of Indian decent. “You cannot go to a 7-11or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.” He continued with a smile, “I’m not joking.” He actually thought that he was making a connection with a prospective voter. While “I know his heart” has become the ‘get out of jail free’ catch phrase for loose-lipped Democrat racists, Biden’s complete lack of awareness shows that he really believed what he was saying. Yet, somehow the rest of us are subjected annually by corporate HR to mandatory sophomoric training videos that broadly accuse us of unconscious bias while Joe is lauded as a beacon of diversity and inclusion.
Pandering seems to backfire on Joe Biden quite often. While speaking in 2012 to an audience that included many African-Americans about Mitt Romney’s plan to loosen banking regulations, Biden said: “Unchain Wall Street! They gonna put y’all back in chains.” This is another example of assuming that all black people are the same, and he knows how to relate to them. Rather than discussing why Romney’s ideas may be perilous, he went straight to the slavery reference. It’s hard to determine if the audible groans from the audience were a reaction to Biden’s misguided attempt to connect or his claims about Romney’s plans.
In 2020 Biden provided more stark evidence of his ignorant belief that all blacks are the same. “What you all know, but most people don’t know,” he said, “unlike the African-American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.” Media coverage of this outrageous racist generalization was noticeably, deliberately light. The media wasn’t about to repeat the mistake they made in 2016 and hand the election to the Republicans by covering the Democrat candidate honestly.
Now, Biden has the nerve to claim that “systemic racism” prevails in America. This latest grievance that Democrats are peddling ignores the fact that Biden has been a major part of the system for the past 48 years. One of the talking points that they are promoting is that African-Americans are incarcerated at a rate that is disproportional to the population. This is an issue Joe should be intimately familiar with. Biden voted for, or even wrote many of the laws that caused this disparity. Joe Biden wrote the 1986 legislation that imposed stricter penalties for drug offenses. A provision of that law stipulated harsher sentences for crack cocaine than powder cocaine. Since crack cocaine was more prevalent in African-American communities, it resulted in many blacks receiving substantially longer sentences than whites for similar offenses. Biden also helped write the 1994 crime law which led to harsher prison sentences and, according to critics, more aggressive policing. This law was passed by a bi-partisan Congress and Democrat (Bill Clinton) president. Now, Democrats want to de-fund or “re-imagine” policing to paper over the problems they caused—all while blaming Republicans.
Biden was quick to label the recent Georgia election integrity law “Jim Crow of the 21st Century.” By painting the law as racist, Biden is attempting to overshadow the fact that the law is actually less restrictive than many other states, both red and blue—including his home state of Delaware. Of course, the Democrat premise that black people are less capable than whites to obtain state issued identification is racist itself. It’s also absurd, and they know it. The purpose is to, once again, draw the argument away from the actual provisions of the law. The most outrageous part of this ruse is the reference to Jim Crow. It was the Democrat party that created the Jim Crow of the 19th and 20th centuries—the actual Jim Crow. In fact, Biden attempted to court southern voters in 1987 by claiming to have received an award in 1973 from former Alabama governor and segregationist George Wallace. “Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!” Wallace proclaimed in 1963. Biden continued his attempt to win over southern voters by boasting: “We (Delawareans) were on the South’s side in the Civil War.” During the Democrat primary debates, Kamala Harris even called out Biden’s praise for and cooperation with segregationist senators. Though, she was careful to not quite call a fellow Democrat racist. She basically said: “I don’t believe you are racist. You have just done really racist things.”
The next example of Biden’s racism that I will share with you is also the most outrageous and indisputable. Apparently Joe thought he was paying Barack Obama a complement when he said of him: “I mean, you got the first… mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean… I mean that’s a storybook man!” There are so many racist elements to this statement that it’s difficult to determine which is the most offensive. Apparently Biden had never met a black man that spoke intelligently and bathed before. He was astonished–as if he had seen a unicorn. Biden salvaged his political career by following the playbook Don Imus had used to recover from is own offensive comments. Biden bent the knee before race profiteer Al Sharpton. He also received dispensation from Jesse Jackson. Both are Democrat stalwarts, and both were likely eager recipients of political I-O-Us.
There are many other examples that are easily found with a simple internet search. Biden famously said: “Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle.” about his concerns regarding busing programs designed to proactively integrate public schools. Kamala Harris, while running against Biden, seized on these comments to insinuate that Biden is a racist. She highlighted that she was personally affected by this policy: “There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools…That little girl was me.” Of course, she dried her phony tears and immediately forgot about Biden’s racist tendencies, as she did her concerns about the sexual assault allegations made against him, when it benefited her political future to join his ticket.
Many Democrat voters will cite their denunciation of racism as a major reason why they vote Democrat. In this election cycle, independents and even some Republicans that did not appreciate President Trump’s demeanor may have done the same. This over-simplification is born of intellectual laziness toward researching and understanding public policy and macro economics. If you know of someone who voted for Biden because they believed Trump is a racist, please share this article with them. They can argue that I am biased and I will not deny that I despise Joe Biden and the leadership of the Democrat party as a result of the dirty tactics they employ. But can they deny that Biden said and did all of these things I have listed, and more? I’ve provided links the videos and supporting articles so they can see for themselves. Perhaps they will begin to be inquisitive and form opinions on thoughtful evaluation of policies rather than wanton mischaracterization. That’s exactly what Democrats fear.
by Peter Farrell
