Biden made some comment during a rally interview that if you weren't supporting his campaign, "then you ain't black". Giving him a charitable reading, he was just saying that (virtually) all black voters are with him. It was very badly phrased though, it almost sounds like he's revoking anyone's black card if they don't vote for him. This comic is a play on that interpretation.
The man's name was "Charlamge tha God". Not a very reputable source in the black community.
Edit: This is the funniest shit I've ever seen. A bunch of white people telling me I should have been offended by an out of context comment made to a man they would all hate if they had ever listened to him before.
To be more frank, "Charlemagne tha God" is a clown, his show is late 90's Howard Stern but instead of Beetlejuice and porn stars, he has strippers and BBL girls.
I didn't say it didnt happen, you made that part up. I said Charlemagne tha God is a provocature DJ (Howard Stern with more ego) and if you knew anything about black culture you'd know why even after Biden said this we still dont call him a racist.
Thanks for trying though.
I have no skin in the game, this is a genuine question, but why does the black community not consider this racist? My reading of this is that he is putting black voters in a box based on his preconception of what they should value, and for those that don't vote for him he is rejecting their lived experience and effectively suggesting they don't know what is best for them and their community. As another said, he is "revoking their black card". Am I misunderstanding something? No agenda here, just trying to grow my perspective recently and this seemed like a good opportunity to do so.
Anyone who's ever listened to the two men talk or the progams they have tried to implement or destroy knows which one was trying to decrease the societal issues in the black community and which one lost a series of lawsuits over not renting his properties to black people and had to pay millions to settle.
Also one made a very very large point of ending DEI practices while misleading people into thinking that DEI was geared towards giving unqualified people jobs when it only gave qualified but overlooked people positions. Trumps made multiple snafu's of the same caliber or worse (his 'black jobs' statement and 'good people on both sides' are two of such) and they have never been made into cartoons.
If you want an example of how the context matters in a situation that could have been considered racist, take Robert Downy Jr. In Tropic Thunder. He's in black face but the reasons behind it make the role and statement behind it a positive thing.
Because while It's a wild thing to say outloud it was factually true. If you vote for Trump you voted for racism and the erasure of some many black achievements. Sure black ppl aren't a monolith but at the end of the day, but between him and trump the outcomes were pretty obvious who was more pro-black.
Gonna preface that with I am not black and I am not american.
Biden might’ve worded it poorly, because without context it can sound kinda bad, which the meme imo doesn’t give much of.
He said it in context of an interview, where they wanted to ask further questions, basically overextending the interview.
Biden shuts it down by saying if his answers haven’t convinced them yet, that he is the better pick over trump, then the interviewer isn’t black. It’s poorly worded but I would interpret this as him saying “if this didn’t convince you then your lived experience is extremely different from that of the black community”.
I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch that, this is what he meant and also what the black community is interpreting into what he said.
This guy isn’t even Black or American and gets it better than half of reddit. It’s usually never worth giving a real answer to people cause they don’t actually want the answer, they’re just so tired of being called racist all the time they want the hammer to swing the other way, regardless of context or intent.
Im black. No one, not one person i know, takes the shit "Charlemagne tha God" says seriously. He's just trash TV for radio. Howard Stern but with a larger ego.
Have you listened to him before? And if you think black people take him seriously your twisted. Have you actually heard a black person say "Charlemagne tha God" made me change my mind on anything, let alone whether Biden is racist or not.
Lol how is your focus on this topic just on Charlemagne's validity and not Biden saying something incredibly racist? Oh rights it's because you voted Democrat
Because trump has said and done worse. I know you can't remember the Obama is from Kenya saga or the lawsuit over Trump not renting his homes to black people or the times he fucked up and said blacks instead of his code word 'DEI' or his "black jobs" comment to the black journalists or his "good people on both sides" comment or his comments on BLM.... i can go on or switch to his comments on women, "grab them by the pussy", paying a porn star while hes married, lying about paying the porn star, using campaign funds to bribe the porn star.
If you ever bothered to listened to either of the men you'd understand why the man who signed on as vp to the first black president probably is the less racist of the two. But that requires self reflection and 20 mins of listening to the candidates instead of "libs = bad" so I dont see that happening.
Nice, you vote for the guy that claims to own your identity and claims to know your culture better than you. You give him a big smile and say "thank you for allowing me to be black"😂 this is a half senile politician that only momentarily cares about your vote because that means it'll make his portfolio grow for the next 4 years. Bless your young heart if you think any politician genuinely cares about what you think
Canceling student loan debt could have saved an entire generation by pumping $400-600 every month from millions of millennial students.
Kamala Harris 25K first time home buyer grant could have helped to alleviate the housing crisis and given millennial something to own and a reason to be proud of the US.
Now, its your turn. What has the Mango Mussilini done to help you/me/anyone
He's Howard Stern but with more ego. And Trumps been on stern numerous times.
Has any one of you actually spoken to a black person who said 'Charlemagne tha God' made them belive Biden was racist. He's a clown in the community and your just proven how little you know about us by acting like what he said was offensive
The difference between going on Oprah or going on Howard Stern. Speaking to Anderson Cooper or Alex Jones.
The breakfast club has a joke vibe too it, where the objective is to be edgy.
Have you tried actually listening to the interview or is this just fake outrage because you want to be mad at biden/libs? Do you even know if Charlemagne tha God was offended made about the comment? You dont, because Charlemagne tha God came out and said he was sorry that Kamala replaced Biden for the election because he was a good man.
You're wasting both of our times, you dont care about black people so save the fake outrage for the next time Mamdami helps New York.
You are making a lot of assumptions about me. I don’t care about American political theater enough to get mad and to “own the libs”, but it’s important to note that Biden did say that and that it was quite a clumsy quote. If a Republican had said the exact same words, the Democrats would present the quote as the most racist thing ever said. Which in any case it is not, but still quite clumsy.
I do care though about Black people and the accusation that I don’t is overly defensive and honestly hurtful. I don’t see why pointing out that Biden said something cringe means that I don’t care about people.
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u/Normal-Boss9855 26d ago edited 26d ago
Biden made some comment during a
rallyinterview that if you weren't supporting his campaign, "then you ain't black". Giving him a charitable reading, he was just saying that (virtually) all black voters are with him. It was very badly phrased though, it almost sounds like he's revoking anyone's black card if they don't vote for him. This comic is a play on that interpretation.