ICHEOKU says the only reason Joe Biden's campaign has survived thus far is the intervention of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic which has put every other thing in the back burner, including paying closer attention to the candidates for the November 3rd presidential election. As a result, Joe Biden's campaign is still very much alive, otherwise his many gaffes plus more, would have since arrested his campaign with a heart attack. A man known for his many gaffes and who would have made even more egregious gaffes had he been on the campaign trail and being bombarded with questions by reporters. But luckily for him, the coronavirus took away focus from him as American people's attention was diverted to the coronavirus pandemic which has subdued the nation, including the 2020 presidential campaign.
So ICHEOKU is not surprised nor shocked when Joe Biden defined black people as only those who vote for the Democratic Party. In his assessment, the party owns black people and black people should better know this fact and should do as they are told by voting for the Democratic Party's candidate and no one else. It has been the way of the Democratic Party ever since. They see black votes as theirs as of right and perceive any black person voting outside the expected voting pattern as an unruly slave who is rebelling against the plantation. Black people have been voting for the Democrats all these years and have nothing to show for their loyal bloc votes. The fact that they continued to vote for Democrats regardless, made them to be treated without respect by the party. A matter made worse because without black votes, there will be no Democratic Party victories in American elections, yet black people have not wielded this power to their own advantage.
Former Vice President Joe Biden is a man with storied racist inclinations and who was called out for this during the just concluded Democratic Party's presidential primaries by Kamara Harris and Cory Booker respectively. The same Joe Biden once mentioned putting black people back in chains. Joe Biden once took pride in his State of Delaware being a slave owning State with the fourth largest black population in America. It is also on record that Joe Biden alongside Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton championed the 1994 Crime Bill which led to the disproportionate incarceration of hundreds of thousands of black people.
Hillary Clinton had called black people Super Predators and Joe Biden authored the same bill as chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Joe Biden also has a condescending manner of talking down on black people including when he said that Black Obama was the first clean and articulate black person he has ever seen and you wonder what he thought of Jesse Jackson, Ron Brown and other black politicians before Obama. Joe Biden also proudly parleyed around with known unapologetic racist senators; so it is possible he is just one of them, admitted he would rather he is seen differently.
Therefore ICHEOKU is not surprised when Joe Biden classified black people or rather defined them in terms of who they vote for. It is true that during the concluded primaries, without black people in South Carolina, Joe Biden's candidacy would have since been a forgotten issue. So, he ought to have answered Charlamagne of The Breakfast Club question, what he would do to show black people that he appreciates their effort in saving his candidacy and making him the presidential candidate.
According to Charlamagne, black people saved Joe Biden's political life in the primaries and they have things they want from Joe Biden, one of which is a black woman running mate. But instead of answering the question, Joe Biden went on to lecture Charlamagne that there are multiple black women being considered alongside other women for the vice presidential slot. This was a far cry from the question, which was whether Joe Biden will choose a black woman for his vice presidential candidate to compensate black people for their primaries vote for him.
Joe Biden was prodded by one of his handlers to end the interview to which Charlamagne retorted that black media has more questions to ask Joe Biden but Joe Biden said he does not mind ending any interview whether it is black media or white media and that his wife has something to do within the period. Then Joe Biden interjected that additional questions from black media will not be necessary because any back person who is still having problem about who to vote for between him and Trump is not a legitimate black person. In his own words, "I'll tell you, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or for Trump, then you ain't black."
ICHEOKU says this is who Joe Biden is and he does not care about earning black votes because as far as he is concerned, they are already securely tucked in his box and he should not waste time working further to earn them. But will black people make him pay as they made Hillary Clinton in 2016? Only November 3rd shall tell. ICHEOKU agrees with Andrew Surabian that Joe Biden telling black Americans that they 'ain't black' if they don't vote for him is about as condescending and racist as it gets. So sad.
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