Seventy-seven-year-old gaffe machine former Vice President and Democratic nominee Joe Biden continues to unload doozies on the campaign trail, telling a round-table talk in Philadelphia June 10 that George Floyd’s May 25 death had more worldwide impact that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. King was the greatest civil rights leader and orator in U.S. history, not some hapless ne’er do well who happened to be martyred on video by a white Minneapolis cop for all to see. “Even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd’s death did,” Biden said, catching himself after making one of the most outrageous, insensitive, ignorant statements by a seasoned politician every made in public. George Floyd and Dr. King should not be in the same conversation but Biden somehow placed them together. Biden tried but failed to rehab his inexcusable comment. .
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the inspiration to keep going sitting in solitary confinement for 25-years in South Africa for Nelson Mandela who eventually ended apartheid, becoming Dutch-South Africa’s first African President, but, more importantly, ushering in black rule. “It’s just like television changed the Civil Rights movement for the better when they saw Bull Connor and his dogs ripping the clothes off of elderly black women going to church and fire-hoses ripping the skin off young kids,” Biden said, trying feebly to undo the damage from his previous statement. Biden’s comparison of Floyd to Dr. King shows he’s no real student of civil rights making such an absurd statement. “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black,” Biden told D.C. radio show host Chralamagne tha God May 22 on his “Breakfast Club” show.
Biden’s remark to Charlamagne tha God drew gasps for it’s patronizing tone, using slang to respond to a popular black talk show host. “You can’t do that to black media!” Charlamagne said. Biden walked back his comments one-day later, telling voters he doesn’t take black voters for granted, admitting his remarks were “much too cavalier,” a euphemistic way of saying they were off-the-wall. Biden mentioned nothing of speaking in Ebonic-like slang using the word “ain’t.” a demeaning way to speak to the popular D.C. radio host. Biden said no one running for president has a better track record that he does on civil rights. Yet, two weeks later, Biden says George Floyd ‘s death had a bigger worldwide impact that Dr. King, maybe the most outrageously ignorant statement by a seasoned politician every made. Biden tried to walk back his comments by adding more detail
Biden’s comarsion of King and Floyd drew gasps. “What happened to George Floyd—now you got how many people around the country, millions of cell phones,” Biden said. “It’s changed the way everybody’s looking at this. Look at the million of people marching around the world,” trying his best to clean up any comparison to the very unaccomplished Floyd to Dr. King. “Someone inform @JoeBiden not to compare the death of Dr. King and George Floyd. He has been in office a very long time and no once has he tried to change anything for black lives. Look at his voting records!” tweeted former NFL Dallas Cowboy’s running back Hershel Walker. “MLK’s niece criticizes Biden comments: ‘Why is it necessary to compare Martin Luther King Jr. and George Floyd?’” Whatever the nation’s convulsive response to Floyd’s death, it paled in comparison to King’s death.
King was an internationally known civil rights leader, who, unlike any other world leader, inspired oppressed populations all over the planet. Floyd was an unemployed occasional part-time bouncer at Minneapolis El Neuevo Rodeo nightclub. Whatever’s currently happening on America streets, Dr. King wouldn’t approve of the riots, looting, arson and anarchy, especially the new militant Black Lives Matters who, together with Antifa, have seized six square blocks in Seattle’s neighborhood AKA “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone [CHAZ] or more recently renamed Capitol Hill Ongoing Protests [CHOP]. Dr. King wouldn’t approve of the lawlessness and anarchy now sweeping American streets, demanding to de-fund the police. “It’s changed the way everybody is looking at this,” Biden said, throwing his support to Black Lives Matter, the front-group making demands to de-fund law enforcement.
Speaking today in the White House Rose Garden, 74-year-old President Donald Trump expressed a desire for police reform but made it clear he backed law enforcement around the country. If you listen to Biden pander to African American groups, he’s convinced that’s his ticket to the White House in November. But before he anoints himself president, Biden will have to answer questions about Black Lives Matter’s threat of more anarchy if they don’t get their way. Trump made it clear today that while no wants more police brutality, the country must let law enforcement do their job to maintain order in U.S. society. What’s happening in Seattle, backed by 69-year-old Gov. Jay Inslee and 62-year-old Mayor Jenny Durkan, turns the Constitution, rule of law and law enforcement on its head, letting radical groups control the streets. Biden’s now joined hands with Inslee and Durkan.
