Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C) pushed back at 78-year-old President Joe Biden who says the U.S. is “systemically racist.” Graham refutes the idea advancing the two- term presidency of 58-year-old former President Barack Obama as proof that the country is not “systemically racist.” Biden’s statement April 20 that the U.S. needs to confront “head on” systemic racism after the May 25, 2020 murder of George Floyd by former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin. Chavin was convicted April 20 of second-degree murder, third degree-murder and second-degree manslaughter. He’s expected to spend most, if not all, of his life in prison. “Is there systemic racism in this country and in other institutions?” asked 73-year-old Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace to Graham. “No, not in my opinion,” Graham told Wallace, citing the fact that Obama and, more recently, Kamala Harris was elected.
Biden’s statements about “systemic racism” in the U.S. have come back to bite him on U.S. foreign policy On March 18, Biden found out what happens when you call your country “systemically racist.” After accusing China of committing genocide against Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang province, 58-year-old Secretary of State Tony Blinken and 44-year-old National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan got a mouthful from China’s senior diplomat Yang Jiechi, telling the U.S. delegation that no country that admits to “systemic racism” for its treatment of African Americans should lecture anyone on human rights. “We just elected a two-term African American president. The vice president is of African-American-Indian descent. So our systems are not racist. America is not a racist country. With every society your have bad actors,” sad Graham.
Graham wanted to make a point to Biden that it doesn’t help U.S. foreign policy, no matter what the pressure from the radical left, to call the U.S. “systemically racist.” Biden has bought, hook-line-and-sinker the media’s propaganda that the country is racist. Forget about all the civil rights and hate-crime laws that prevent discrimination in education and the workplace evolved after hard-won court battles over the last 60 years. “The attack on police and policing—reform the police, yes. Call them all racists, no,” Graham said, pushing back the media drumbeat that labels the U.S. government and its people as racist. Current notions of racism, stemming from the new anti-Racist literature, define anyone not black as racist. Ordinary white people are told they’re racist regardless of what they’ve done or said. Being white in America is all that’s needed to define someone as racist, regardless of the facts.
Graham doesn’t want to hear the President of the United States calling his country “systemically racist.” “America is a work in progress but [sic] best place on the planet. And Joe Biden spends a lot of time running the place down. I wish you would stop it,” Graham said. Graham didn’t point out what happened in Anchorage when Blinken and Sullivan accused China of genocide. Biden officially recognized the “Armenian genocide” April 24, where some 1.5 million Armenians were slaughtered by the Ottoman Turks [1915-1917], in what became know as “death marches.” Whether China discriminates against Muslim Uygurs in Western China or forces them into labor or re-education camps, that’s not genocide by any definition. Since taking office Jan. 20, Biden’s been on his high horse condemning 68-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin March 16 as a “soulless killer.”
No other country in the world, including the European Union [EU], has more civil rights laws for just about every minority in the country. Hard-fought civil rights laws, designed to protect black Americans, have been extended to the LBGTQ community, protecting all minorities from prejudice and racism. Systemic racism is mistaken for economic inequality, something that leaves minority group locked in the nation’s inner city neighborhoods where high-crime and gun violence flourish. No black is prevented by the government or educational institutions from fulfilling their dreams, whatever they happen to be. No government can guarantee success in any field, only a level playing field where all people get the same chance to succeed. There are not “systemically racist” laws that prevent African Americans from pursuing any endeavor compatible with their abilities.
When Biden tells the world the U.S. is “systemically racist,” the rest of the world only thinks the worst about the United States. China’s emissaries at the Anchorage summit told Blinken and Sullivan to stop lecturing China about human rights abuses and fix “systemic racism” in the U.S. Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), who happens to be black, couldn’t disagree more with Grhaham. “My response is at some point in our country’s history, we have go to figure out a way to talk about race where we can talk a bout it objectively and people don’t feel individual guilt,” Bass said. Bass knows that her Democrat caucus just passed HR-40, the slavery reparations bill, setting up a commission to study the issue. No elected official can say with a straight face that blacks aren’t give every conceivable protection under the law, including affirmative action that ends the level playing field for U.S. citizens.
