Biden tells black audience ‘I may be a white boy, but I’m not stupid’

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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris celebrated Black History Month at the White House on Monday. One of Biden’s statements is raising eyebrows because of its racist tone. He told the audience, ‘I may be a white boy, but I’m not stupid” as he talked about the clout of black Greek organizations.

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That sounds like a racist thing to say. Does Joe Biden think that white people are inherently stupid? It was a cringeworthy thing to say, obviously overcompensation as he tried to ingratiate himself to the audience. Liberal white guilt is a powerful thing. He made that declaration to the audience while talking about the Divine Nine, the network of black sororities. Kamala Harris is active in her sorority of Alpha Kappa Alpha.

Ugh. I’m surprised that the pandering Joe Biden didn’t start talking about black girl magic. He also made some odd references to campaigning for Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), now House Minority Leader and said he no longer talks to him. He included the Congressional Black Caucus chairman, too.

Jeffries “is here in spite of the fact that when he ran the first time I campaigned for him,” the president added before shouting out Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Steven Horsford (D-Nev.).

“I campaigned for him too. You know what this means is, they don’t talk to me any more,” Biden said. “I’m only kidding.”

No, Joe, no one knows what you mean.

Joe and Kamala used the occasion to slam Florida Governor DeSantis with false claims that he is trying to erase black history from being taught in Florida schools but didn’t mention the governor’s name. The claims are phony anyway. DeSantis is eliminating the teaching of inappropriate topics as a part of AP American history classes. That is not eliminating black history, it is keeping students focused on the subject at hand. The left screamed that DeSantis is sanitizing history but DeSantis tweeted that education ‘is about the pursuit of truth, not the imposition of ideology or the advancement of a political agenda.’

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Harris, the nation’s first black vice president, told a crowd of guests that ‘Black history is American history,’ and spoke of celebrating history ‘that helps us to understand how the past has influenced the present and potentially our future.’

‘And let us all be clear,’ she intoned. ‘We will not as a nation build a better future for America by trying to erase America’s past.’

Biden made his own pitch in that regard, saying ‘Black history matters,’ and calling for ‘the good, the bad, the truth, and who we are as a nation.’

‘That’s what great nations do, and we’re a great nation,’ Biden said.

He also mentioned the screening he held recently for Till, a film about the lynching of Emmett Till.

‘We hosted a screening because it’s important to say from the White House, for the entire country to hear, history matters.,’ he said.

‘We can’t just choose to learn what we want to know. We learn what we should know, to learn everything,’ he said.

If Biden and Harris are so concerned about telling all of American history, surely they oppose the removal of statues and monuments that honor past leaders and historical figures, right? Or, is showing a Hollywood version of lynching to a small audience at the White House during a private screening enough? Should statues of Christopher Columbus be vandalized or removed if someone today is offended? A Columbus statue commissioned in 1892 was doused in red paint in Central Park yesterday. The vandals labeled him as a murderer.

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Biden has been caught in numerous false statements about his alleged involvement in the civil rights movement and with black communities throughout his life. He fabricates stories to make himself look involved.

In 2020, Biden sparked an outcry when he said African-American voters “ain’t black” if they support then-President Donald Trump.

Months later, the then-Democratic candidate took heat for saying blacks were less diverse than Hispanics in terms of political thinking — before asking a black journalist if he was a “junkie” in the same interview when the reporter asked if he had taken a cognitive test.

Biden also falsely claimed during the 2020 campaign he “had the great honor of being arrested … trying to get to see [Nelson Mandela] on Robbens [sic] Island.” He later admitted that wasn’t true and said he was thinking of being separated during a congressional trip to Lesotho, though a Democratic colleague on the trip disputed that account too.

That is just a partial list of Biden’s lies.

Biden praised Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) for endorsing him in the eleventh hour during the South Carolina primary in 2020. That endorsement carries weight in the black community and rescued Biden’s campaign from being defeated by Bernie Sanders. Biden also reminded the black audience that he chose a black woman as vice president and as a nominee to the Supreme Court. What he didn’t say is that both women were chosen because they checked the black and female identity boxes, not because they were the best choices as far as competency goes. Biden credits black women in South Carolina with his victory after Clyburn endorsed him.

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It seems like if Biden is truly supportive of real history being taught, he would tell his own history correctly, without embellishments and fantasy.

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