Speaking for the first time in the Reception Room in Philadelphia’s City Hall, 77-year-old former Vice President and Democrat presumptive nominee Joe Biden slammed 73-year-old President Donald Trump for addressing the nation yesterday from the Oval Office. President Trump said there can be no tolerance in the U.S. for the looting and lawlessness that’s caused widespread property damage in many U.S. cities, including Philadelphia. “It’s a wake up call for our nation. For all of us,” Biden said, forgetting what happened to his boss, 58-year-old former President Barack Obama, when a slew of racially-charged murders by white cops prompted rioting in American cities. Now that the shoe’s on the other foot, Biden plays cynical politics slamming Trump. Biden blasted Trump for ordering the D.C. police and National Guard to restore order to the nation’s capital. How about that?
When Biden talks of a “wake up call,” what was happening when 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was killed by a white vigilante Feb. 26, 2012 or, two years later, when 44-year-old Eric Garner was choked to death by the New York City cop July 14, 2014. Biden said nothing about a “wake-up call” back then, when people took to the streets to protests police brutality. But now that it’s an election year, Biden has nothing but contempt for a tragic event in Minneapolis where a racist cop choked 46-year-old George Floyd to death May 25. Instead of making sweeping generalizations about law enforcement or a so-called “wake up call,” Biden should be calming down rioters and looters operating outside the U.S. Constitution. Biden was irked by Trump going to the historic St. John’s Episcopal Church across from the White House to honor it after torched by an angry mob.
Biden knows that Washington has been subject to looting, arson and anarchy, not peaceful demonstrations permitted under the First Amendment. D.C. police and the National Guard wouldn’t be deployed if peaceful protesters made their case on civil rights and police brutality. “The president held up the bible at St. John’s Church yesterday. I just wish he’d opened it once in a while instead of raising it,” Biden quipped. If he opened it, he might have learned something,” showing that Biden’s has no shortage of sarcasm over a very serious problem facing the country. No orderly or sane society can tolerate anarchy or lawlessness for any cause, no matter how noble. Civil rights activists know that Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin lost his job, was arrested May 28 and charged with third-degree murder. Chauvin will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars.
When you ask what the crowd wants, they have no answers other than venting collective rage at white society. Black Entertainment founder Bob Johnson offered a solution to the widespread looting and violence: Reparations. Johnson proposed at $15 trillion in reparations to African Americans to cover the period from day the Constitution was signed Sept. 17, 1787. So, Johnson suggests that if African Americans don’t collect $15 trillion in reparations, the rioting will continue. Johnson and other pro-reparation blacks are deadly serious about their demand for reparations. Biden doesn’t take the situation seriously, knowing that the U.S. government isn’t in a place for pay off the African American community if they promise not to riot. Trump “turned this country into a battlefield riven by old resentments and fresh fears . . .” Biden said, forgetting what happened on his watch.
When Trump spoke to the nation last night, he said the nation grieved Floyd’s death but wouldn’t tolerate looting, arson and anarchy. It’s easy for Biden to take shots at Trump, it’s an election year. But everyone knows there’s no quick fix for the plight of African Americans in the United States. Reparations are exactly the wrong answer, when the government already spends billions on welfare, food stamps and Medicaid, health care for the poor. Whatever happened in Minneapolis does not reflect the vast majority of the nation’s law enforcement community. Whatever the U.S. history with police brutality, police departments around the country are more diversified in terms of racial and ethnic minorities than ever before. Saying there’s “systemic racism” in national law enforcement or the county at large is outrageous. Barack Obama would never have been president if the country suffered from “systemic racism.”
Politicizing the Coronavirus AKA SARS CoV-2 or Covid-19 crisis and now race riots around the country, Biden took every opportunity to smack Trump around. “I promise you this—I won’t traffic in fear and division. I won’t fan the flames of hate. I’ll seek to heal the racial wounds that have long plagued our country, not use them for political gain . . I’ll take responsibility, no blame others,” Biden, forgetting again, that he and Obama had plenty of racial problems when in office. If Joe’s not using Covid-19 and race riots for “political gain,” than who is? Joe was so successful dealing with race with Obama, he watched five Dallas police officers ambushed July 7, 2016 by a black extremist because he and Obama had so much empathy for police brutality. Biden showed he has no qualms exploiting the nation’s misery for his own political gain, something he hopes wins him votes.
