Presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden is known for his frequent gaffes and fabulist story-telling. One of my favorite stories is the one he told about working as a lifeguard at a public pool, and how he confronted tough guy Corn Pop and how the kids used to rub his hairy legs. Animator Sven Stoffels took the “hairy legs” soundtrack and created a 26-second animation of it.
Ewwww! and LOL.
Even more disturbing is Biden’s propensity to make what can only be described as racist remarks. He’s made several, going back several years. In 2006, for instance, he said to an Indian supporter, “In Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.”
Sounds like stereotyping to me—Indians move here and have cornered the market on coffee franchises!
But, beginning with the 2008 presidential campaign, Biden has made some astonishing remarks about black Americans. They’re so overtly derogatory and offensive that, had they been made by a Republican candidate, the Left and their lapdogs in the media would have engaged in a scorched-earth campaign to shame the candidate out of the race.
Yet here we are.
So let’s look at what Biden has said about blacks. One of his first racially-charged comments was about his opponent in the 2008 presidential election, then-Illinois Senator Barack Obama. “You got the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
Jesse Jackson, call your office.
Then there was his spontaneously raising the specter of slavery with a heavily black audience by claiming that Wall Street (and, by extension, Republicans) are “gonna put y’all back in chains.”
“Y’all.”
Then there was this beauty: “We have this notion that if you’re poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.” He tried to recover, but yep, all white kids are rich and all poor kids are people of color. Nice.
During the current presidential campaign, Biden, in a fit of pique, tells a black interviewer who had more questions, “if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
“Ain’t.”
Finally, his most recent commentary about blacks: “unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.”
Can you spell m-o-n-o-l-i-t-h?
You can’t blame these statements on his cognitive decline. He was making them long before the 2020 campaign and the Yellow Plague Lock Down that’s keeping him in his basement.
Here’s what I think is probably closer to the truth: this is how shallow and unremarkable Joe Biden is. His racist comments aren’t a bug—they’re a feature.
The media calls them “gaffes” and gaffes is what they are—just not in the way the media suggests. Instead of mangling what he “meant” to say, his comments unintentionally reveal what he actually thinks. The gaffe is that he let it out of the bag.
Charlie Kirk tweeted what most of us are thinking.
Given the absolute hysteria these days about black lives, white privilege and systemic racism, one could be forgiven for expecting the progressive Left to go all Kancel Kultura on Biden. Yet, for obvious reasons, they don’t. Nothing is worse than Orange Man Bad, and if they have to tolerate a closet racist to defeat that guy in November, so be it.