You’re bringing up a very important issue I’ve been pondering, but haven’t quite been able yet to articulate a good answer from. First of all, just to add the minor point that Joe Biden teamed up with Senators Strum Thurmond and Jesse Helms to kill the Brown v Board ruling once and for all. Kamala brought that up in the 2016 primaries, and she was right. Only 10 percent of schools were integrated by 1974 when Biden was recruited. The 1980 bill was passed actually as amendment by Helms tacked on to another law. Schools never became integrated, despite popular Myth. Strum himself threatened to basically secede and wrote a manifesto that said in the first draft “We will not obey the Supreme Court decision on Brown.” That sentence was taken out of the second draft, and he knew it would be, but he was making a point: we will resist segregation forever! He even said “We don’t want blacks in out pools. It will take all the armies of the world to come down to make us do it.” The literal quotes are on line, but they are as strong. The Manifesto signed by 99 senators and congressmen from the South spiritually, though not legally, said, “We will secede from the Union if you force us to segregate.” These white MAGAs (then Democrats, Strum and most of the 99 quit the party in 1964 over the issue) were hard core and unashamed full blown white male racists powerfully and openly standing up for their beliefs (belief in inequality, repression of 55 percent of the black Americans in the South they controlled sure, but they stood up powerfully.
Biden was from Jim Crow Delaware, and the state was in that block, though perhaps not as severe, it still pass those inequality laws against black Americans and still burned a few black men on that streets. That’s some powerful belief in white supremacy to break a black man accused of something but not found guilty out of jail, take him out on the streets, beat him and burn him alive in a fire in 1900s. These people are sick, depraved, BUT willing to fight for what they believe in an unashamed manner (they believe in autocracy).
Now take the modern Democrats when standing up for Black Lives Matter, a movement that saw 3.3 million black and other racial concerned Americans out marching peacefully on the streets in 2020. What does Biden do? Move to stop systemic black voter disenfranchisement by supporting the John Lewis voting rights bill, standing with those 3.3 million, saying, “I hear you, I will fight for you, as your votes have only been repressed by the crazy super strong MAGA manifesto writers!” No, he slinks away under the couch. After passing the Infrastucture Bill that funds corporate projects, he says, “Well, sorry I don’t really think the Lewis bill pass and I got go do some other stuff.” From a male perspective he looks like an absolute wimp when standing up for black men (and women). Black women as you know are hard workers and the backbone of the economy, working hard no matter what to support their families. And doing it while a few million black men were thrown in jail during the Biden Crime Bill era. Black men want strength, a leader who is unashamed and outspoken for them, like Trump is for the white race (yuk).
Joe Biden is not for them. He is weak and sniveling from a black male perspective. They want Killer Mike for President (he now has the Grammy’s so it’s a good choice). Nobody, nobody stands up strongly. Decades in jail, decades of millions locked up for jaywalking and petty stupid charges that whites constantly get away with, and they get stood on instead of stood up for. Before the Crack era, up until the 1970, black men actually stuck around and stayed married at a rate higher then white men in marriage. Poor, sure, repressed, sure, but they could stand with their families. But you lock up millions, leaving black women one their own to raise the kids and work, with leaders in those decades branding those women “welfare queens,” “crack baby momas,” and trying to stick with their men when thrown in prison but making it almost impossible, so they have to work hard to feed mouths through all the insults and deprivation, heads down, and what you do you get? Nothing. No one trying to wrong that right done to black Americans on such a vast scale. One MAGA King threatening more jail time and the other hiding under a rock.
The result of it all is black women kept on keeping on, and it paid off. Which is huge plus. They got college degrees from just working, working, at a higher rate by the 2010, and it looks like you just can’t stop them now (which again is great). But black men as a whole couldn’t work and work to get ahead, being targeted for arrest (for convict leasing programs still going on in prisons that use their labor for free like the federal UNICOR system). They thought they would get a strong man, even white, to face off against strong Trump, shouting down Trump on their behalf. Nope, Biden under a rock. Economy is the best it’s been! Sure, but black women had some decades outside of jail to just work and work away, quietly getting stronger and stronger to get educated, positioned now to take advantage of that (all three liberals on the Supreme Court are brillant women of color, no men).
There’s more to life than money, especially for black men. There’s pride, recognition, being restored to head of the family. They need to see that.
That’s just my two cents. Apologies, as like I said I haven’t really been able to reflect properly on it, but just wanted to share where I stand.
I have to vote for Biden, who was the last of my choices in the 2016 primary, with a toss up between Harris (strong smart likable woman) and Bernie (family pressure), followed by all the others but Biden. In the end I voted for Biden. But I’m sick of voting for someone I have to, and not someone I want to. Yes, I’ll vote for again. He’s hired a lot of great people in his administration that care and are competent, as opposed to Trump who hired few and were vastly incompetent and nasty. And of course he’s doing good the economy which support black women and men, so that’s the big benefit. But I still want an outspoken leaders for women and minorities to balance off Trump, someone, you know, supporting democracy, like liberty and justice for all. That’s what I think they want: not somebody just to do good, but somebody to stand for it.
Thanks again and this was great of you.