Commentary

I recently commented on the Biden-Harris panic over polls showing approval among blacks and Hispanics slipping while approval of former President Trump improved.

You may recall President Biden and Vice President Harris making a hurried visit to speak at Girard College, actually a grades 1-12  five-day boarding school, on May 29, 2024, during which they were unable to fill the gymnasium.

Regardless, it gave the pair an opportunity to pander to members of the black community.

After Harris introduced Biden as a fighter; a leader with skill, vision, determination, and compassion, a leader who keeps his promises, Biden reminded them that they are president and vice president because they voted.

He opened by saying “there’s a lot of misinformation out there … I came today to speak truth … and about promises kept.” 

After reeling off a list of things they’ve done for blacks, with “the bottom line is we’ve invested more in black Americas than any previous administration in history,” he again failed to recognize that blacks …. and Hispanics too for that matter … don’t want special attention; they want to be treated as normal American citizens.

Of course, he had to talk about his appointments of blacks to judicial and military leadership positions, in addition to that of Harris.

The leftist media have embarrassed themselves by inviting black Trump supporters to appear on their network, only to ridiculer them.

When Sen. Tim Scott announced his candidacy for the presidency, he talked about his childhood and growing up black, but with persistence, he made it.  That caused The View’s Joy Behar to say he “doesn’t get it” when he denies the existence of systemic racism, “which is why he is a Republican.” Scott called her remark a “dangerous, offensive and disgusting message to send to our young people today.”

MSNBC’s Joy Reid claimed that Florida’s black Republican Rep. Byron Donalds is being used by the GOP because he is black.

Both gentlemen are top notch individuals and contribute greatly to both bodies of Congress, despite the comments by the intellectually deprived leftist media hosts.

We have witnessed Biden’s appointments of blacks in his administration and the judicial world, but he hasn’t always viewed races clear-eyed.

I recall in 2007, how he embarrassingly referred to Barack Obama: “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright, and clean, and a good-looking guy.  I mean, that’s storybook, man.”

You can just imagine how the media will react if Trump selected a black as his vice president, or a woman for that matter, or even a white man.  It won’t matter. He or she will be a Republican, and worse yet, a MAGA Republican.

It wouldn’t be a Biden speech if he didn’t take a swipe at Trump and his MAGA supporters, with lies and inuendo; the worst of which was Biden’s belief that Trump “unleashed an insurrection” on January 6.

Clear evidence of Biden being out of touch was evident when he accused Trump of being “the guy who won’t say ‘Black Lives Matter’” and who’s “decimating affirmative action.”

Primarily a businessman, Trump has no doubt learned of the corruption in the BLM movement that sought corporate support following the death of George Floyd.  PEW Research Center reported support for the movement “dropped considerably from its peak in 2020,” stating that “a majority of Americans say the increased focus on issues of race in the past three years hasn’t led to improvements for black Americans.”

Biden’s accusation of Trump “decimating affirmative action” is probably tied to Trump’s nominations to the Supreme Court that resulted in the contentious issue to be stricken in college admissions last year.

As if the pandering of blacks and attacking Trump weren’t enough in that little Philadelphia gymnasium, Biden took a page from Hillary Clinton’s campaign playbook by concluding with a message from a gospel song.

While he thankfully chose not to go into a southern drawl as Hillary did, it was another pathetic attempt to be black.  You remember the song: “We’ve come too far from where we started.  Nobody told me the road would be easy.  I don’t believe he brought me this far, though, to leave me.”

We’ll see, Joe.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.