Joe Biden & White Liberals:
Racists in Democratic Party Clothing
By Solomon Comissiong
Several decades ago Malcolm X said, “The worst enemy that the Negro has is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros, and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these white liberals that have perpetuated problems that Negros have. If the Negro wasn’t taken, tricked, or deceived by the white liberal then Negros would get together and solve our own problems.” As was often the case, Malcolm X’s brilliant sociopolitical analysis was spot on. However, unfortunately, in 2020, those words continue to ring true throughout much of the United States. The Democratic Party, and the white liberals that are riddled throughout that corrupt organization, have a vice-grip hold on the politically domesticated minds of a great many African Americans. Black people throughout the United States are perhaps the most faithful voting block within that political corporation. They will often unconditionally vote Democrat, regardless of the reprehensible nature of the candidate. This usually happens at a greater than 90 percent clip. Africans Americans know that the Republicans are not their friends, however, far too many are misguided into believing that Democrats are a better alternative. Even worse, they believe the white liberal Democrats are their friends. Nothing could be further than the truth.
The cold hard truth is that the Democratic Party has done nothing substantive to have earned this unfettered loyalty from the African American community. Ironically, white liberals, and the Democratic Party as an entity, have done much to show their true colors as the adversaries they should be seen as. Not only should they been seen, like Republicans, as adversaries to the Black community, they should also be seen as foes to humanity. So-called white liberals have waged just as many imperialist wars as their Republican counterparts. When it comes to imperialist wars Democrats often tag-team with Republicans on passing destructive legislation aimed at regime change within democratically elected governments. Democrats have championed deadly sanctions just as Republicans have. It was the Democrat Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, within the Democrat Bill Clinton’s administration, who cold-heartedly stated, in 1996, that the brutal sanctions on Iraq were worth it, when ’60 Minutes’ correspondent, Lesley Stahl, asked her. Even when it was mentioned that these sanctions were directly responsible for killing 500,000 children, she still said that “We think the price is worth it.” Her evil comments were captured on a prime 60 Minutes interview.
It was Democrats and Republicans, alike, who banged the drums of war for the deadly 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the indiscriminate terroristic mass bombing of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Very few Democrats opposed these nefarious actions. When it comes to war, these two war parties stand side-by-side. The George W. Bush administration started the drone campaign, however, it was Barack Obama that expanded it and then executed more drone attacks within his first year in office than did Bush within his entire 8-year stint as president. Over 90 percent of those drone strikes were responsible for the mass murder of innocent civilians. Those who are humane understand how utterly evil and cowardly drone strikes are. However, Democrat Barack Obama proudly made jokes about his orders to execute drone strikes, at one of his White House Correspondents dinners. Democrats are not antiwar, they are merely the other half of the war party.
Barack Obama’s Vice President, Joe Biden, is now the frontrunner to be “selected” as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee. Despite championing, and in one wretched case…authoring racist policies, Joe Biden is getting support from millions of African Americans who seemingly believe that he is some sort of white savior. There is enough strong evidence to suggest that Joe Biden is a racist. Joe Biden’s actions have spoken far louder than the racist words that frequently spew from the intellectually challenged mouth (and mind) of Donald Trump. Joe Biden is the primary author of the deeply racist 1994 Crime Bill. This policy is directly responsible for sending masses of people of color to be warehoused within the United States’ racist prison system. This is a policy that has had a far more devastating impact on communities of color than the racist words from Donald Trump. Donald Trump is not to be excused for his words or his actions, however, for some reason, many African Americans cannot stop making excuses for Joe Biden’s deplorable political record in regard to the Black community. Joe Biden’s “Democrat” label seems to make him impervious from warranted criticism. Even Joe Biden’s relationship with known racists and white supremacists, like the late senator Strom Thurmond, often go overlooked by corporate media and puppet Black politicians. Recently South Carolina Congressman, Jim Clyburn, went out of his way to show his loyalty to Joe Biden. It is safe to assume that if Donald Trump had the same aforementioned record as Joe Biden, it would routinely be brought up as well prepared talking points justifying why not to vote for Trump. However, since Joe Biden is a Democrat, the likes of Jim Clyburn conveniently turn a “blind eye’ to his reprehensible actions against the Black community.
The corrupt Democratic Party is openly consorting to prevent an anti-establishment and socialist-leaning candidate from getting their party’s nomination, and masses of indoctrinated people still vote the way the DNC establishment has programmed them to vote. This has happened in 2016 and now we see history repeating itself in 2020.
If Joe Biden were to ever win the Democratic Party’s rigged nomination, and then the presidency, little will change to progressively improve the lives of the vast majority of African Americans. African Americans will feel good, just as they felt good to see a brown face (Barack Obama) in the White House, however, our communities will still be submerged within a quagmire of good ole American structural racism. Gentrification, police terrorism, and the prison industry complex will continue to reign painfully upon Black communities. Joe Biden has had a long career in which he did nothing to try to end these racist aspects of American society. As a matter of fact, Joe Biden has aided in the existence of draconian criminal justice policies, and their wretched continuation.
Trump may be filled with xenophobic and racist words, however, Joe Biden, like other Democrats before him, will champion racist, imperialist and neoliberal policies throughout the country—and the world! Sadly, some people are seemingly much more comfortable with racist, imperialist, and xenophobic policies, so long as the politician does not call them any names pubically. Let us keep in mind that the same predominately Muslim nations that Donald Trump banned from travel to the U.S. are countries that the Barack Obama administration (that included Vice President Joe Biden) indiscriminately bombed, thus killing civilians and destroying infrastructure in the process.
Personally, this author thinks it is far better to know your enemy, as many of us have learned about Donald Trump, via his xenophobic and racist rhetoric. He has no fear of letting the world know how racist he really is. Policies he has enacted, such as the banning of specific immigrant groups reflect his racist rhetoric. However, because of white liberals, like Joe Biden, who smile on camera and tell the Black community sweet lies about how much they “appreciate” us, it then becomes believed as fact. There is seldom a need for these Democrats to produce an established track record. Make no bones about it, the only thing that white liberals, like Joe Biden, appreciate about the Black community is their unconditional votes.
Democratic Party establishment elites are far more concerned with Bernie Sanders winning the presidency than they are at Trump remaining in office four more years. If Trump wins, again, those Democratic Party elites will still cling to their economic power base. However, if Sanders wins, and he was to actually institute many of the things he has assured his constituents that he would, those DNC elites would stand to lose some of their hyper-capitalistic power. Socialism is their enemy! They are ruled by unfettered economic power and greed. They fear any semblance of a classless society. They fear a society laden with free healthcare, free education, human rights equity and livable wages.
Wake up those of you who proudly call yourselves “Democrats”! If you are an African American, think long and hard about what white liberals, have done to tangibly move our community closer towards liberation, or even towards social equity that is remotely tantamount to their white community’s. They will tell you to shut up and stop complaining about police brutality, gentrification, and other social justice issues, all the while asking for your votes each and every election cycle. And, why not, because we have given them our support and votes without seldom asking for anything in return. Until we mentally escape the Democratic Party’s plantation we will forever be seen as chumps to be used at their disposal…only for votes. The Black community’s ultimate liberation begins with the liberation of our minds and unity.
Let us please heed the prescient words of Malcolm X, when he said, “The white conservatives aren’t friends of the Negro either, but they at least don’t try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But the white liberals are foxes, who also show their teeth to the Negro but pretend that they are smiling. The white liberals are more dangerous than the conservatives; they lure the Negro, and as the Negro runs from the growling wolf, he flees into the open jaws of the “smiling” fox. One is the wolf, the other is a fox. No matter what, they’ll both eat you.”
Solomon Comissiong (www.solomoncomissiong.com) is an educator, community activist, author, and Founder of the Your World News Media Collective (www.yourworldnews.org). Solomon is the author of Unapologetically Outspoken: Hip Hop, Social Justice & Liberation. Solomon is also the writer and producer of the documentary, Hip Hop, White Supremacy & Capitalism: Why Corporations Infiltrated RAP Music. He can be reached at: solo@yourworldnews.org
