ICHEOKU says for a candidate who rides on a presidential campaign bus themed "No Malarkey Express" to, with a straight face, feed black people such malarkey as he did in Philadelphia, it is either he is so full of it or he thinks that black people are too dumb to know any better. Joe Biden authored the 1994 Crime Bill that completely decimated black families in America and he is now saying what; that he was too young then to understand their plight or that the inequities he is now talking about never existed then? He spent 48 years in Washington DC, as a Senator and Vice President, yet these inequities were never addressed. But suddenly, he now wants black people to swallow his patronizing sanctimonies and be giddy with expectation about the soon to arrive "President" Joe Biden who will magically wish away all their problems.
ICHEOKU says if Joe Biden did not solve black Americans problems when he was young, energetic and somewhat charismatic and could have easily fought the fight; he will not do it now that his political sun has almost set, leaving behind it an old feeble man, with little to no energy left in him to fight such a costly battle. He is promising black people a sugar candy mountain of an experience when he becomes president, believing that black people did not read Animal Farm, particularly the account of the pig named Snowball and a horse named Boxer. And just like with the satire rendered in the book, Joe Biden is promising to deliver to black people things which he knows fully well that he cannot deliver, even if he truly believes in what he is saying himself.
Joe Biden knows the complexity of the issues involved and that there is no silver bullet or any known magic wand with which to swath away racism in America. But he is banking on attention deficiency of the people and that they will not remember who authored the 1994 Crime Bill. One other thing about Joe Biden and his professed love for black people, as evidenced by the 1994 Crime Bill, is that he feels so comfortable making undeliverable empty promises to black people. But the one promise which he can in fact actually and easily deliver to them, if he is serious about giving them something and in order to show his good faith and sincerity of purpose that he will do right by and for black people, he has refused to deliver.
A sincere Joe Biden could have announced that he will pick a black woman as his vice presidential candidate as a starting point in delivering things to black people. Such will be a good step in his harmonizing of Americans into his dream America where everybody is treated fairly and carried along, regardless of their skin color. But he will not and in fact refuses to commit to picking a black woman because Joe Biden is part of the problem facing black people in America. Joe Biden is a member of the good ole white boy club who have their knees on black people's necks and he also authored the 1994 Crime Bill which decimated black American families through mass incarceration and dual penalties for drug offenses based on their skin color.
It was Joe Biden's law that punished possession of cocaine differently from possession of crack cocaine, the former because it is the drug of choice for white people and the later because that's the drug black people can afford. Yet Joe Biden wants black Americans to develop amnesia about what he did to them, their families, their friends and their relatives with the 1994 Crime Bill. Politics is indeed a damn profession and politicians are a damnable people, otherwise how could Joe Biden have the impetus to pontificate a love for black people and so shamelessly too after writing the 1994 Crime Bill. ICHEOKU expects a more politically savvy black people to demand from Joe Biden a firm commitment in writing that he will appoint a black Secretary of the Treasury and black Secretary of Defense before falling in line behind his candidacy. The time for free support is over and a time for political horse trading is now, it is called QUID PRO QUO.
So, what took him so long to realize that black people are shortchanged in America and why did he not do something about the enumerated inequities in America all these years he was in Washington DC. He had opportunities to do something about it as Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman and as Vice President but he looked the other way. Now, he wants black people to be deluded that Joe Biden suddenly had an epiphany and woken from a long self induced coma, will now be their captain America come to their rescue. But it is the silly season of election year campaign and the former vice president and presidential nominee of the Democratic Party is trying to score cheap political points and with it seek to gain some black votes by promising a heavenly paradise to black people, but never told them how he is going to get them there.
Black people must be wise and smart this time not to buy into the Joe Biden's bunkum, because he is always big on promises but short on delivering them. Like Ronald Reagan once said, black people must not only first verify before trusting Joe Biden, but they must demand additional firm commitments from him before they climb unto his boat.
The promises made in Philadelphia may sound tempting, but they remain mere promises until they are implemented. But unfortunately they cannot be implemented, not by Joe Biden and not by anyone else because racism in America is somewhat inextricably interwoven with the society and it has lasted for several hundreds of years now. If Joe Biden could end racism in America, he would have done it since the last 48 years he is in Washington DC, both as a Senator and a Vice President. He didn't because he couldn't and he won't and he knows it, but he decided to carry on with his empty promises hoping to deceive black people into voting for him on November 3rd.
ICHEOKU says to black people, before they fall to Joe Biden's charm offensive trickery, to first find out who authored the 1994 Crime Bill. Joe Biden said that he will seek to heal racial wounds that have long plagued America, but he failed to tell black people how he will reach into the hearts and minds of white people and make them heal from their hatred of black people. The pain of racism never attenuated nor healed, it has been raw and it has been real all the 48 years Joe Biden was in Washington DC since 1972 but he did nothing about healing it, making it more bearable only to now embark on false promises.
Joe Biden said that his America cherishes life, yet he supports abortion on demand which is wasting millions of American children lives, black babies included. Joe Biden said that he will be a listening president but the concluded Democratic Party's presidential primaries showed a Joe Biden who is feisty, easy to provoke, angry and who does not listen to anybody, but always seeks to impose his will on others. Joe Biden also does not have the needed temperament of a president and has anger issues. Joe Biden does not admit to his guilt, does not apologize and he frequently, flatly, refuses to answer or respond to questions bordering on what he considers a no go area about himself and his family. Joe Biden often touts his records but fails to understand that the 1994 Crime Bill is part of his records.
ICHEOKU says why did it take Joe Biden until now to finally realize that black people are suffering under the weight of generations after generations of hurt inflicted by his white people? He was aware of it 48 years ago in 1972 when he first moved to Washington DC as he is aware of it today in 2020 when he is running for president, but he did nothing then in 1972 through now and he will do nothing about it in the future. Whatever black hole of grief at the chest of black people which Joe Biden was pointing out now was not dug today. It has been in their chest since they were forcibly yanked out of Africa and into servitude in America. But did a "caring" Joe Biden do anything palliative, including seriously taking up the issue of reparation, since the last 48 years he is in Washington DC? Also if the purpose of America has guided America from the beginning, was putting hurt on black people part of the purpose and if not, why has it not been remedied ever since.
ICHEOKU says will like to remind Joe Biden that Eric Garner, another "I can't breathe" victim of white police, was choked to death in New York under his watch, during the Obama administration. So why is it now that George Floyd was similarly murdered that he finally decided that America should listen to the "I can't breath" cry, when he did not so urge and admonish America in 2014 when Eric Garner was murdered. Joe Biden wants Americans to now listen, understand and respond with real action; but he never similarly asked when Eric Garner was murdered. If, as Joe Biden personally admitted, black people have always had knees of white people on their throats and for so long, why is it now that he is suddenly concerned about it and voicing about it, when he selectively ignored it all these decades he was in Washington and participating in the kneeing.
Further, how does he want the government to distinguish between the legitimate protesters from the opportunistic violent anarchists when all of them were mixed together in a ball of riotous confusion. He talked about those mistreated, ignored, left out and behind, but forgot that the same black people have always been exposed to the same conditions. So why is he now suddenly raising the issue when he kept a blind eye and maintained a deaf ear to their plight and did not help them all these years he was in Washington DC since 1972. ICHEOKU says also wants to remind Joe Biden that the right to peaceably assemble does not include destruction of properties through arson and looting.
Anyway, ICHEOKU agrees with Joe Biden that systematic racism did not start with President Donald John Trump. However, the police did not kill George Floyd with weapons of war, so it was rather hypocritically presumptuous for Joe Biden to call for their withdrawal from the police, the Mexican fast and furious scheme considered. Joe Biden was Senate Judiciary Committee chairman but failed to pass necessary legislations that would have given meaning to the Constitution's equal protection under the law. Yet Joe Biden wants black Americans not to have a recollective memory about his record while in the Senate, principally as the author of the infamous 1994 Crime Bill.
ICHEOKU says one inviolable truth from Joe Biden is his statement that "I wish I could say this hate began with Donald Trump and will end with him. It didn't and it won't." Joe Biden knows this because he is part of the "good ole white boy" club who kept the disparity status-quo in place and he exploited it to the fullest, for a long 48 years and counting. Joe Biden also spoke another truth that "the presidency is a big job and that nobody will get everything right and that he too won't either. But over all, Joe Biden spoke as the politician he is, one running for president and pandered to black people with all his tall promises just to get their votes to help him get into the White House. His promises don't mean a thing and he meant nothing when he made them. ICHEOKU says black people must not swallow the Joe Biden's bait and if they must, to first make sure that they secure a firm commitment from him. Thankfully Joe Biden had enough energy to finish reading the teleprompter and thats some good news as well.
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Christy 'Apena' Essien-Igbokwe , the wife of Jegede Shokoya of the New Masquerade and Nigeria's lady of songs is dead; she was 51years old. Although her family claimed that "brief Illness" killed her like so many Nigerians; Icheoku retorts that it was most likely AKwa Ibom voodoo and remote control that was used to arrest her. It is on record that she had fallen out with the governor of her native Akwa Ibiom State and have been having a relentless war for political turf with the governor? So who knows whether she was sacrificed to Ekpe cult or even Alusi-Okija as an offal; afterall African science is still very much alive and portent. May her soul rest in peace.
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