A speech before the NAACP featured the president’s idea of “lowering the temperature” as he brought up George Floyd and made an admission about “what a black job is.”
While Republicans gathered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin demonstrating the unity on the right, President Joe Biden traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada Tuesday where divisive rhetoric featured prominently. In particular, with concern about his running mate’s dreadful favorability at the fore following weeks of calls for him to step aside, the incumbent said the quiet part out loud and reminded the convention about Vice President Kamala Harris’ main qualification.
“Folks, I know what a black job is — it’s the vice president of the United States,” said Biden before continuing with the political equivalent of announcing “I have black friends.”
“I know what a black job is. The first black president in American history, Barack Obama. I was vice president to Barack, and she is my vice president. I nominated the first black secretary of defense in American history. They’re doing one hell of a job. I nominated the first black woman to the United States Supreme Court,” he went on before insisting, “It matters.”
Biden Yelling: “Folks, I know what a black job is. It’s Vice President of The United States!”
Biden continues to prove he only appointed Kamala as a DEI pick. pic.twitter.com/uTI0w5vBW0
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) July 16, 2024
In leading up to boiling down the administration to little more than diversity, equity, and inclusion posturing, Biden tried to swipe at former President Donald Trump who highlighted the administrative policies devastating Americans.
“Here’s what he thinks of black jobs. I love his phrase, black jobs. It tells a lot about the man and about his character,” said the resident-in-chief.
The reference was to his predecessor’s remarks during the debate when the GOP leader slammed his opponent and asserted, “He caused the inflation and it’s killing black families and Hispanic families and just about everybody. It’s killing people. They can’t buy groceries anymore. They can’t.”
“You look at the cost of food where it’s doubled and tripled and quadrupled. They can’t live. They’re not living anymore. He caused this inflation,” said Trump. “I gave him a country with no, essentially no inflation. It was perfect. It was so good. All he had to do is leave it alone. He destroyed it with his green new scam and all of the other — all this money that’s being thrown out the window.”
“He caused inflation. As sure as you’re sitting there, the fact is that his big kill on the black people is the millions of people that he’s allowed to come in through the border. They’re taking black jobs now and it could be 18, it could be 19, and even 20 million people. They’re taking black jobs,” the Republican presidential nominee claimed, “and they’re taking Hispanic jobs and you haven’t seen it yet, but you’re going to see something that’s going to be the worst in our history.”
Of course, as members within his own party such as New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have shown, the left is averse to straying from the demonization and fearmongering and even Biden couldn’t help but give the green light for gaslighting and what many considered to be inciting rhetoric days after suggesting it be reined in because of the assassination attempt on Trump.
“Just because of us lowering the temperature in our politics against violence, it doesn’t mean we should stop telling the truth,” the president said early in his remarks that included a callback to the “Summer of Love” and the “mostly peaceful” destruction that swept America after George Floyd died while in police custody in May 2020.
“When you peacefully protested George Floyd’s murder, Donald Trump called for the National Guard to go after you. What in the hell’s the matter with this man?” wondered Biden who glossed over the resulting deaths, injuries, and lost livelihoods.
Biden says the 2020 “Summer of Love” riots — in which entire city blocks were destroyed and livelihoods were upended — were just peaceful protests pic.twitter.com/UkjSpVKe0l
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 16, 2024
As it happened, social media was more than willing to jog the president’s routinely questioned memory on his own prior stances as well as how cities looked as riots rocked the United States in the name of George Floyd.
“Mostly peaceful” pic.twitter.com/1iqb9MyvqA
— Zachary Hess (@_Zacharyhess) July 16, 2024
“Peacefully”
27 people were murdered.— Acaydia (@Acaydiya) July 16, 2024
OMG he has got to be the most racist president in American history. Archie Bunker must have been his idol.
— Rebecca Bolyard (@RebeccaBolyard) July 16, 2024
Ewwww… this guy is a race hustler like his buddy Al Charlatan Sharpton
— Tisha Maris (@McGh73282) July 16, 2024
Classic Joey…. pic.twitter.com/ZXkB60Pt9y
— Major Biotch (@CrabtreeLeah) July 16, 2024
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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