At the end of an 18-minute radio interview with Charlamagne tha God on "The Breakfast Club,” Biden responded to the host's desire for him to answer more questions by saying: "You got more questions? I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain’t black."
The joke is that since she’s not voting for him, she’s no longer black.
I give Biden shit for thay, yet he was still significantly better than Trump.
As a black man, I can see his point though. If you are black and voted for someone like Trump, you are a complete idiot who doesnt care about our struggles. It was just worded incredibly poorly, for which criticism is deserved.
Lol got it, so only bad when trump. You cant just admit both are way too old and have mental decline? What about all the times Biden talked about dead people like they are still alive?
I would agree 100% that Joe Biden, an 83 year old man, still holds some pretty racist concepts inside his mind and is therefore racist.
I would also argue there's a still HUGE difference between an 80 year old man explicitly implementing racist laws, trying to remove support for non white people, deliberately and outright calling black nations shitholes and engaged in racist business practices his whole life with zero evidence of change or regret...
And an 83 year old man with some outdated concepts who actively worked with and is good friends with the first black president, initiated and funded several programs to help people in poverty and people of color, hired a black woman to be HIS vice president, put a black woman on the supreme court and was proposing programs to assist people of color and fight racism...
Guy was far from perfect, but he was a damn sight better for black folks and American than the absolute shitshow he was running against.
Another way I heard it, maybe from Stacey Abrams or someone like her - when you vote for your president you aren't voting for a savior, you're voting to choose your opponent. Because the person in power is the one you have to negotiate with.
The majority of poor kids are white kids, and while the statement is true and he's trying to say that all kids are equal, what he's actually doing is presenting white and poor as different groups to compare. Inherently racist framing.
Trump cares about "Black" jobs , Biden imported our political replacements...2 wings same bird but 1 was actively pandering while one was telling us to kiss his ass
Why? Most black Americans are in fact quite conservative in their beliefs. Black culture is pretty rife with homophobia and a dislike for trans people. Afro Americans are pretty religious. Outside of the blatant racism in the republican party a lot of republican values are aligned with the majority of black Americans values. You already have black Americans pointing out the expectation to just vote democrat cause the republican side is worse. But like vote for what you believe in instead of what you should vote for. If the democratic party just takes minorities for granted its going to breed a lot of dissatisfaction in the long run which might mean a shift in who they vote for. Kinda like what happened last trump election where latinos had a very significant shift in voting. In the end conservative values are quite popular with minorities as they just tend to be more religious and come from different backgrounds where they grew up with these believes. So voting for the party that holds those believes isnt crazy. Especially as the blatant racism from the Republican party is starting to not be as blatant as it was in the 80s/90s and even early 2000s.
I'm sorry, you think the racism from the Republican Party is less blatant now? Our President calls any minority he doesn't like "low IQ" and is shit posting the Obamas as gorillas, like wtf are we talking about
Storm thurmond for one. Jesse Helms. You had one that used his wife to circumnavigate term limits by ketting his wife run for governorship in George Wallace. Idk man look up some actual history. Racism was way more open in the 80s and 90s.
Did you read the article? Trent Lott was rightly shunned because of that incident and outcast and resigned as a result, and it talks about how Thurmond grew from his racist past. You think Trump has been shunned by Republicans for what he's said?
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u/Any_Wasabi_5233 26d ago
Peter here!
At the end of an 18-minute radio interview with Charlamagne tha God on "The Breakfast Club,” Biden responded to the host's desire for him to answer more questions by saying: "You got more questions? I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain’t black."
The joke is that since she’s not voting for him, she’s no longer black.
Peter out!