They’ve been Biden(ed)

By Patrick Hall

“One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.” E. B. White

It was not surprising. However, it was nonetheless discouraging, tiresome, and disheartening.  Every time I want to believe the black community, especially the so-called educated class is making progress in understanding the opportunities and freedoms the country provides all of its citizens regardless of race, gender, or class; they devolved into the comfort of a “perpetual racially aggrieved” Groundhogs Day. This is juxtaposed to the obvious, if not miraculous progress the country has made regarding racial equality, which Martin Luther King Jr articulated in his I Have a Dream speech.    

Not long ago, President Biden gave the commencement speech at Howard University, one of the nation’s oldest, if not premier Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). In my previous career as a Library Director, I was employed by two HBCUs.  During this time, I witnessed a lot of positives as well as some of their shortcomings, mostly in the area of academic rigor. The President’s remarks to the mostly Black audience were hardly uplifting. Predictably, he defaulted to his mind-numbing, if not ponderous claim that racism and white supremacy was the greatest threat facing the nation.

 To be honest, my initial reaction to Biden’s words was somewhat ho-hum. Biden’s talking points about America and White Supremacy have been a staple in his political rhetoric for some time now.  I don’t know if Mr. Biden believes what he said about white supremacy, racism, and its delirious effects on African Americans.  But when you consider other racially charged comments by the President, one does wonder.  Democrats like Mr. Biden see themselves as saviors and/or protectors of Black America. White supremacists, racists, and people, who wish to do Black folks harm are everywhere.  They are omnipresent in the very marrow of our nation.  To Biden and many within the Democratic Party, Conservatives, Republicans, and their MAGA constituencies is a socio-political pathogen, that hosts White supremacy.  It has been and continues to be the evil specter that only he, the Democrat Party, and the NAACP can shield blacks from.

 Mr. Biden’s unguarded, but honest remarks to radio host Charlamagne Tha God, a few years ago were prima facia evidence of how too many Democratic politicians view Blacks and others, who fall outside their enlightened, if not condescending vision.  During the interview with Charlamagne, then Presidential candidate Biden without fear and a load full of hutzpah told his Black interviewer, that if you are having a problem figuring out whom to vote for, (the obvious answer in Biden’s way of thinking was voting Democrat) then “you ain’t black.” Following that reasoning, I guess I haven’t been Black since 1972. That was the last time I voted Democrat in a Presidential election.¹

However, what was a punch in the gut for me, and the brainwashed, if not Borg-like reaction of the black audience in attendance was this. Like trained clapping seals, they seem to applaud and give agency to Biden’s accusation of White Supremacy being the clearest and present danger to America and African Americans in particular. Mary, Mother of God!  It was so heartbreaking to see the Black audience at Howard cheer Biden’s comments.

Collectivist thinking still grips a significant portion of the African American community. It is an outgrowth, a cultural-political parasite, of the Nicean-like belief of institutional racism.  America is seen by Democrats and groups like the Black Congressional Caucus as a systemically racist society, teaming with White Supremacy.  In response, it has been only through a collective response from African Americans and its political class, that this “original sin” can be fought and eradicated. To paraphrase the words of Shelby Steel and other Conservatives, both black and white, this comportment on the part of Black Americans to gravitate toward the collectivist blame game of institutional and systemic racism (i.e., Biden’s White Supremacy) was a strategic mistake. It was a catastrophic indulgence of the Post Civil Rights Black Community. By default, it placed the African American racial development in the hands of the “collective” or a populace “other.” It tragically downplayed the role of the individual in self-betterment. Only the individual can achieve in school, master salable skills, open a business, become an accountant, an oil-rigged supervisor in the Gulf of Mexico, electrical or Environmental engineer.  Despite the more pejorative aspects of race and ethnicity, that partially exists in all of us, black, white, Latino, or Asian. Opportunities can only be won or acted upon by the individual. Biden’s White Supremacy rhetoric is simply debilitating, if not self-defeating for the nation. It continues to lead many blacks and their Progressive Liberal Democrat enablers into the socio-economic cul-de-sac of victimhood.

I guess someone should get the messages out to the 6-plus million “illegal immigrants” flowing into the country, most of whom are” people of color” that America is teaming with White supremacists.  

Black illegal immigrants should be immediately informed that they are endangered from black-hating white people such as Donald Trump, and Ron DeSantis, and that female KKK Grand Dragon and Republican Presidential Candidate Nikki Harley. They need to be especially cognizant of that racist SOB.

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1. See., I haven’t been black since 1972.