JOE BIDEN: A CLOSETED RACIST?

ICHEOKU says despite all the lip service denials, is it possible that former Vice President Joe Biden had and still nurses some racist tendencies, which sometimes bubbles up to the top in some of his unguarded comments and statements. He is afterall a good ole white boy and like Bill Clinton, shared in the same privileges of whites only, this and that; as well as other perks of that era, which somewhat continued till this day. 

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck; so if the former Vice President has made statements which could be associated to racists or interpreted as racism, and has palled around with known racists and segregationists, is it possible that he is one of them? A popular aphorism says, tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are; so, who is Joe Biden? 

JOE BIDEN said that he does not have any racist bone in him, but his action and utterances say otherwise. Take a look at the litany of utterances and action of Joe Biden and ask yourself how a person with such disposition to black folks and other colored Americans, could with a straight face, say that he is not a racist, even if he lacks the courage to in fact, actually match his words with his thinking. 

In an article published in New York Observer of Wednesday February 7, 2007, Joe Biden said of Barack Obama:- "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy", which Obama denounced as historically inaccurate in face of other African Americans who once ran for the office including Jesse Jackson, Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun and Al Sharpton. 

ICHEOKU says let any defender of Joe Biden's racist antecedents please explain to ICHEOKU how a person that has lived for nearly 80 years in America has never seen any African American that is articulate, bright, clean and nice looking, until Barack Obama happened on the stage. This is dog whistle equivalent of coded subliminal message that black people are dumb, dirty and dull; and in fact ugly looking too; yet Joe Biden has no racist bone in his body, you're right. 

It is also on record that Joe Biden once fought against school integration in America by opposing busing of school children across schools. An effort which he tagged along with late racist Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina to pursue. Yet, Joe Biden claims that he is not a racist but palled around with such an openly racist Senator. A case which Senator and presidential candidate wanna be Kamala Harris brought to light during the last Democratic Party's presidential debate in Miami, when she told her story of being the little school girl that Joe Biden's anti busing action nearly impacted in California. 

Joe Biden also, once on national television, bragged about how his State of Delaware was a slave State and proudly so. The interviewer was asking Joe Biden how his presidential quest would fare in the South, being a Yankee; and he proudly said that he comes from a slave State and that fact is easily relatable to the South and that he will be easily home in the South. 

ICHEOKU says how could someone who does not have a racist bone in his body be so proud to come from a slave State and then went ahead to mouth it off as his presidential credentials and his bona fides as a strong candidate in the South. If he was ashamed of his past and still not into deep racism, why would he be so comfortable with such a dark past history of Delaware, as to say it on national television and claimed it as a qualifying attribute and the reason he will be easily accepted in the South. But Joe Biden wants black Americans to believe that he got their back. 

Also, Joe Biden was on record edifying his Senatorial working experience back in the 70s with known racists Senators from Mississippi and Georgia, James Eastland and Herman Talmadge. According to him, "I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland. He never called me boy, he always called me son. A guy like Herman Talmadge, one of the meanest guys I ever knew, you go down the list of all these guys. Well guess what? At least there was some civility. We got things done. We didn’t agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished. But today, you look at the other side and you’re the enemy. Not the opposition, the enemy. We don’t talk to each other anymore.” 

ICHEOKU says while what Joe Biden said overall did not sufficiently rise to racism, but his reference to not being called "BOY" did him in. He is fully aware of the derogatory nature of the word BOY is to African American males and how insulting calling a fully grown black man boy really is; and racist white men often use it to place black men in their place. So, by Joe Biden bringing up the word boy, he  knew exactly what he intended and he successfully communicated it. Yet he is not a racist, but he speaks and uses words of racism. 

Then add his 7Eleven comment about having Indian accent and the fog gets clearer about what he truly thinks about people whose color of the skin is different. Should ICHEOKU add that Joe Biden was twice married and non of his wives was a person of color; and of course he does not live in black neighborhood nor attends black church either. 

Anyway, Joe Biden will not win the primaries and will not be the party's presidential nominee; and if he is rigged in, he will be roundly defeated by President Donald John Trump. The much touted name recognition myth was laid to waste when Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton could not use her globally recognized name to win the White House in November 8th, 2016. Names no longer wins election, touching the hearts and minds of American people does; and without positivity and stronger message on policies, the Democrats are once again running on empty, as anger alone will not do it. This is 2020 election we are talking about and not one in the 1980s. 

Joe Biden is exhausted, tired, washed and looks like a ghost and caricature of his former amiable self, period. He is no longer the original Joe American people once knew. Unlike Obama, Joe Biden has no charisma left going into 2020 election. Unlike Jeb Bush, Joe Biden has no energy at all going into the 2020 election; and of course, unlike Trump, Joe Biden is steeped in the old ways of politicking, including straight jacketed boring campaign style. 

American people have moved on from Obama/Biden; and American people will not trade the vibrancy of a President Donald John Trump's presidency to a dower Joe Biden drab presidency. Unfortunately, his time in the sun has passed and there is no amount of energy drink or other energy boosting ingestible or injectable that can successfully bring back the original, aviator-shades wearing Joe. 

American loved him when he had spring in his steps and was vibrant and cognitive; but that Joe which we once knew is gone forever.  American people will not accept the current effigy for the boy from Scranton who later turned into Amtrak riding Senator from Delaware and rose to become the Vice President. ICHEOKU says Joe Biden should in fact withdraw from the race and avoid having the final chapter of his long running stellar career in politics be bookended with a resounding defeat in 2020. President Donald John Trump will be reelected president come November 3rd, 2020 because none of the 20 Democratic Party's presidential candidates has what it takes to uproot him from the White House. Joe Biden, your time in politics is up, pass the torch. #PassTheTouch.