If You Don’t Vote for Joe Biden …
“You ain’t Black.” Yep. He said that.
Some Black people got mad about that, repulsed even. Some white Republicans got unrighteously indignant with their racially repugnant selves. Some other Black and white Liberals/Socialists/Marxists/Democrats/et al (whatever the Republicans are calling Black people and their friends these days) simply fell out laughing…because…
Well.
I fell out laughing anyway. Sacrilegious!
It wasn’t cool of him to say it, and I’m sure he got scolded to no end by some persistent white and Black Democrats who wish he’d be more centered like Barack Obama and less like the waaaaay nicer version of Donald Trump, but President Joseph Robinette Biden carries a different “flava” with Black people than some backwoods trailer trash white guy who wanted five INNOCENT Black men, exonerated by the actual perpetrator who finally confessed, to be hanged/lynched REGARLDESS of their innocence; and then later, yet and still, Trump refused to apologize, KNOWING he was dead wrong. Though these young Black men were coerced into admitting to a crime they did not commit, like so many others before them … even after stating they didn’t do it in the first place, Trump said their initial “admission” means they’re still guilty.
Well, well, well.
We are well aware that some people don’t do well with forgiveness, or apologies…but Donald John takes the cake — from the baby and the grandma who baked it.
Joe Biden, we know. But Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Mike Johnson … we don’t know them, and ain’t trying to get to know them.
Biden got away with that one, but he has been treading lightly ever since. He’s been toodling around with the Black communities across the nation for years, basically listened to us, and gave us everything we demanded of him, INCLUDING the “Three Strikes” laws that ultimately led to mass incarceration and racial profiling “under color of law”.
Is he totally innocent of saying some pretty dreadful things himself in his prior alliances … well. not totally. But at least he admitted to it AND APOLOGIZED, Mr. Trump.
Maybe an apology ain’t good enough for some of us, but that may be the reason why Trump never did so. Some of us ain’t never satisfied with nothing anyway. They apologize (rarely) and it’s not good enough, they don’t apologize and we get ticked that they won’t.
We as a People who do not know we are a People (but not a monolithic People) tend to get overly-dramatic when an apology is not issued and when one is, so we need to make up our minds which is it going to be. Do we need/demand an apology or not? What do we do with it if we get it?
[ https://fb.watch/srFa4R_Kp0/ : Columbus GA NOTE: Bro. Warner stated that he is not trying to get the 13th Amendment repealed, he is trying to educate young Blacks to the fact that their own crimes/punitive actions are causing them to end up in chains and back in slavery, as if the 1800s never ended.]
In the meantime, many of us recall why that mass incarceration (now known as a secondary slavery institution) really happened. If not, here’s the overall recap:
In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan spent his first four years in office playing head games with ongoing warmongering in South America. So like a Republican, dipping their noses where they aren’t wanted. Anyhow…
Between 1981 and 1986, senior [Reagan] administration officials secretly facilitated the illegal sale of arms to Iran, which was subject to an arms embargo at the time. The administration hoped to use the proceeds of the arms sale to fund the Contras, an anti-Sandinista rebel group in Nicaragua.
Websites across the spectra have done everything they can to scrub the Internet of the evidence that was gathered in the 1990s showing that Reagan’s cronies, Oliver “Ollie” North and others like him, raised the money for the arms sale to the Contras from the sale of crack cocaine in the inner cities.
Whether or not Reagan was aware of how they were raising the funds is beside the point…what is important is that it all happened on his watch.
By the time Reagan, who had come down with dementia while he was still in office, left the Oval Office, crack cocaine dealing was a total pandemic nationwide, particularly in low-income Black communities across the nation, and it began in South Central LA — in that area of Crenshaw Boulevard that is often portrayed by Hollywood in different urban movies.
Speaking of Hollywood, in the 1990s, ten years to the day Reagan’s policies hit the Black communities across the United States very hard, a movie came out that showed -in all its full glory- what really happened to the inner city on Reagan’s watch.
The movies was called “NEW JACK CITY.” It starred Wesley Snipes, Ice T, Mario Van Peebles, Chris Rock, Vanessa Estelle Williams, Tracy Johns, Christopher Williams, and Allen Payne; and of course, the REAL star of the show at the very end…Bill Cobbs. One tap to the chest and Nino Brown was out of business…just.like.that.
The beauty of that highest-grossing film of all time, the one nobody who has seen it can ever forget, is that the fictional story itself was so intensely real.
This was a depiction of what was going on in so many (mostly) Black communities that the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) itself demanded Congress do something to help.
At one point, legislation was on the table for people who lived in ghetto areas/the projects to have their Second Amendment rights taken away, but that idea was nixed after it was shown that the gangbangers could easily get their hands on illegal weapons and the folks who were legal gun owners would have no way to protect themselves from them, which would make things even worse.
Hillary Clinton wasn’t referring to all Black people as “super-predators,” she was talking about the ones who were guilty of it; Bill Clinton only did what was asked of him by the CBC, Al Gore backed it, but he (and Al Sharpton) already had a history with the FBI of spying on Black people. And Joe Biden? The demand was made by Black people in the Caucus and Biden had a long history of helping Black people whenever they asked him.
They were in deep trouble and needed help, and Biden reached out -as always- to help do something about the massive killing.
It was a literal nationwide bloodbath in the inner cities, and young Blacks were losing their lives left and right over things like “J’s,” (Jordans), gold chains, and bomber jackets. The residue of Reagan’s calamitous administration still lingers in Black communities to this day.
It hasn’t ended, more than 40 years later…but the one thing we cannot afford to do is blame Joe Biden for something we did to ourselves.
Biden pitching in to help us at an expedient time, as we asked him to, will always be a damned sight better than the god-awful racist things Donald Trump has said and done ALL his life.
We know that it was no karmic coincidence that Trump ended up being convicted of all his sins, transgressions, and business-related crimes in the SAME district and court that the Central Park 5 were subjected to when they were coerced into confessing to something that only time proved they did not do.
God is tryna tell us something.
I am saying that I, personally, will non-partisanly NEVER vote for Donald John Trump, don’t care how many witch hunts and alleged ‘sham’ trials he gets himself into. If Hunter Biden runs against Trump on the Republican ticket, I’ll vote for Hunter.
It’s that serious, Fam: Just like any old crack dealer and excuse-making Nino Brown pimp on the streets, Trump is just as guilty.
For the moment, for this expedient hour … President Biden is nearly as ‘Black’ as we are.
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