Showing the double standard that exists when it comes to Democrats and Republicans in the African American community, 77-year-old Democrat presumptive nominee former Vice President Joe Biden told Washington, D.C.talk radio host Charlamagne tha God’s “Brealfast Club” show that “you ain’t black” if you don’t vote for him. “I’ll tell you if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black,” Biden told Charlamagne. If any Republican used patronizing Southern slang speech, it would be considered not only racist but demeaning to African-Americans. But Biden’s treated by the African American community like former President Barack Obama, like he’s one of the tribe. Charlamagne polled Biden’s comments after his remarks finding that 40,000 listeners, 89.6%, disagreed with the remarks. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) thought Biden’s comments were uncalled for.
When 72-year-old former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke to African American groups in 2016, she would typically adopt Southern colloquial speech like “ain’t” to audiences in black churches. Charlamagne reacted unfavorably to Biden’s language usage, thinking it demeans his educated black audience. If Trump used the term “ain’t” speaking to a black group, he be crucified as racist. Scott didn’t like Biden’s speech, but reminded folks Biden “sponsoring a crime bill in the 1990s that jailed more African American males than any other legislation.” Scott called Biden’s remarks to Charlamagne the “most arrogant, outrageous comment that I’ve heard in a very long time.” Yet for most African Americans that support Biden, they’re not concerned about his use of language. They’re focused, like Biden, it doing anything possible to beat Trump in November.
Scott, who’s black, couldn’t let Biden’s remarks pass unnoticed. “And President Trump comes along and through his criminal justice reform, corrects the absolute mistakes made by Joe Biden: 1.3 million African-Americans voted for Trump,” Scott said. “He’s saying to 1.3 million African-Americans that you are not black? Who in the heck does he think he is? That is the most arrogant, outrageous comment that I’ve heard in a very long time and I take offense to that,” Scott said, reminding Biden that he doesn’t have all blacks in his back pocket. Scott, the Senate’s first African-American Senator, took Biden’s remarks personally. “I thought to myself as an African-American—been black for 54 years—I was struck by the condescension and the arrogance in his comments,” Scott said. “This is the type of negative, race-baiting rhetoric that is the lowest denominator in the nation and it’s go to stop.”
Biden, of course, won’t receive any more flack for his insulting remarks that his accusations of sexual assault by 49-year-old former Senate aide Tara Reade. Reade accused Biden of sexual assault, describing a 1993 incident in basement of the Senate Office Building. Biden said “it never happened,” but he never clarified what never happened? He never assaulted Reade or the experience was a consensual encounter? Democrats heralding the #MeToo movement of violence against women seems to only apply to Republican perpetrators, as most Democrat women gave Biden as pass. When it comes to using offensive language, Biden’s excused because he’s protected by his Party’s most liberal constituents, looking to beat Trump in November. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Biden’s comment were “truly offensive but a rare and honest insight into liberals’ thinking.”
Graham, who’s the senior Senator from South Carolina, can’t believe Biden can speak in such a demeaning way to blacks. “Liberals believe you really can’t be black, Latino, female or intelligent unless you support their liberal agenda,” Graham said. Republican walk on eggshells when it comes to minorities because the Democrat narrative paints Republicans as racists, bigots, sexists, xenophobes, homophobes and environmentally irresponsible. Serving as vice president under Obama for eight years, Biden thinks he can act like his former boss and get away with it. “What if Donald Trump had said this? Will Joe Biden get as pass on this? I had to watch 3 times to make sure I actually heard what he said,” wrote Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump, now a 2020 campaign adviser. Lara answered her own question that Biden gets a pass from the black community because he’s associated with Obama.
Democrats have the historical advantage with African Americans, something not likely to change anytime soon. Most African-Americans have nothing but contempt for Trump, assuming that his polices discriminate against blacks. Before the coronvirus crisis, African-American employment was at the highest level in the nation’s history. Now that government shutdowns created the worst recession since the Great Depression, unemployment has jumped from 3.5% to 20%, continuing to climb every week. “Trump is a bigot and a loser,” one unnamed Democrat voter told Fox News. “Black voters know that and they know Joe Biden is on your team,” showing that another Biden gaffe won’t make much difference to blacks. If Biden’s remarks say anything, it’s that most African-American voters aren’t going to vote for Trump regardless of what Biden says or does in the 2020 campaign.
