The US president Joe Biden asks at civil rights event: ‘what do you think he would have done … if Black Americans had stormed the Capitol?’

Joe Biden has launched one of his most scathing attacks yet on Donald Trump’s record of racism, suggesting that the former US president would have acted differently to the January 6 2021 insurrection if was led by Black people.

The remarks, at a dinner hosted by a civil rights organisation in a critical swing state, pointed to an intensifying battle between Biden and Trump for African American voters ahead of November’s presidential election.

“Let me ask you,” Biden said during an address to an NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) dinner in Detroit. “What do you think he would have done on January 6 if Black Americans had stormed the Capitol?”

There was a collective gasp and murmur in the cavernous convention centre, where an estimated 5,000 guests had gathered. The president insisted: “No, I’m serious. What do you think? I can only imagine.”

  • Jaysyn@kbin.social
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    1 month ago

    In Detroit a leader of the Pro-Palestinian protesters said “This community will be the community who unseats Joe Biden. … A president who has fostered an atmosphere of hate against our community.”

    This person will be at the front of the line to have their citizenship stripped & exiled if Trump is elected.

    If you don’t think Trump will do it & SCotUS will allow it, you’re a dangerous moron.

    EDIT: Oh look, there is one now.

    • Count042@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      Would you care about that if Trumps opponent was providing weapons and diplomatic cover to the people exterminating your entire extended family back home?

      Actually think about that before blindly answering yes.

      Imagine the trauma of losing your entire family. Knowing the children suffered horribly before dying. Knowing that the ones who followed Israels movement orders starved to death.

      If you can’t understand why that would cause people to hate Biden, regardless of his opponent, then you have so little human empathy that it makes you incompetent at gauging the strategic outcomes of your actions.

      It also makes you a shitty human without empathy.

      • Jaysyn@kbin.social
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        1 month ago

        Would you care about that if Trumps opponent was providing weapons and diplomatic cover

        Of course I would. But I’m also intelligent enough to know that you put your own oxygen mask on before you start helping others.

        I’m also smart enough to understand that “You should vote your emotions” is the absolute dumbest possible take.

        Furthermore, I can empathize with someone & still be aware they are making a stupid decision.

        • Count042@lemmy.ml
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          1 month ago

          Not voting for the person who could have single handedly stopped the slaughter of your entire family but didn’t isn’t ‘voting your emotions’

          I can’t imagine anyone but a sociopath writing that.

          EDIT: the stupid choice is voting for someone that wants a genocide committed. If a system is only capable of supplying two genocidiers, then it isn’t a system worth defending.

          Also, putting morality aside for a moment, but nothing is stupider than assisting in the genocide of a people whom make up a required component of your coalition.

          Reminder: Biden doesn’t win the swing States without Muslim support. This is a self own. Blaming anyone else for this is a case of victim blaming.