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© Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Biden tells racial justice meeting, 'We've kept our promises,' as he looks to energize Black voters
By AARON MORRISON and WILL WEISSERT NEW YORK©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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bass4funk
Yeah, Biden is losing that fight and more than ever. In 2020 Trump won the votes of Black men by 12% now in 2024 32%
Black women in 2020 6% now in 2024 25%
Doesn’t help Biden, and it definitely doesn’t help the Democrat party going forward.
Blacklabel
that’s surely a historic disapproval of a Democrat by Black Americans.
Just saying George Floyd over and over doesn’t work any more.
Cards fan
Yeah, you Biden needs to take hints from Team Trump who got a whopping 17% of the black vote last election. reeeee
wallace
The majority of Black Americans and Hispanics will vote for Biden even if Trump sees an increase for him.
Bob Fosse
He hasn’t won 32% in a 2024 because it hasn’t happened yet. Come in now.
But if you are interested in polls here’s one for you:
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-presidential-election-black-vote-2024-1888830
Bob Fosse
“The former president has also repeatedly compared himself to anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela”
Anyone with a lick of sense would see chicken little comparing himself to Mandela, Lincoln and Jesus is the sign of a deeply insecure and frightened child.
This article from yesterday nailed it.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/04/12/trump-hush-money-trial-stormy-daniels-coward/73294764007/
bass4funk
No one said that they won’t. That’s not the issue, we know they will, but the more thoughtful and insightful ones are walking away and more are thinking about it, losing 12% of black men and 25% of black women is not good for the Democrats at all. So this definitely helps Trump. He even has the Amish voting for him, and these people are never political one way or another usually even though they’re socially and morally conservative.
https://www.newsweek.com/amish-farmer-turned-republican-hero-becomes-flash-point-culture-war-1872374
https://www.economist.com/interactive/united-states/2024/03/19/joe-bidens-weakness-among-latinos-threatens-his-re-election
bass4funk
Yes, that’s the job of pollsters to gather this information locally and going door to door and having town halls etc.
JJE
Joe lobbied and voted for the notorious 1994 crime bill which led directly to mass incarceration of minorities, millions. He is shameless as he pretends he didn't. Back then he used some very charged language too.
wallace
bass4funk
So believe in polls now?
dagon
Both Biden and Trump have less than ideal records in dealing with minority communities. Fact.
But only one , Biden, has expressed regrets for his past and looks to reform and address racial justice and economy in some measures.
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-02-26/quotes-trumps-comments-on-black-issues-over-time
Small steps , but it is something.
Of course if there was any true justice we would have a President Cornel West.
https://www.businessinsider.com/cornel-west-says-trump-leading-campaign-war-against-black-people-2022-5
JJE
Biden is on camera claiming he visited Mandela in jail (Robben Island).
No such event ever occurred except in his mind.
Blacklabel
What has Biden supposedly done for Black Americans that he hasn’t done for any other group?
lincolnman
Hmmm....so the "more thoughtful" Black voters won't vote for Biden, even when his opponent said some White Supremacists were "very fine people", had dinner with an avowed Neo-Nazi and white Supremacist, and peddled a lie that the first Black President was illegitimate...
On the other side, devout Christian evangelicals who swear that life begins at conception will support a candidate that's for killing babies until the 15th week...
The MAGA-delusion meter just went off the scale...
TaiwanIsNotChina
What has Trump? His whole shtick is basically, "Um, I dunno. I'll make gas $4 a gallon."
Cards fan
What has trump supposedly done for Black Americans that he hasn't done for any other group? I mean, besides discriminating against them as tenants.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Thankfully voters are able to distinguished reheated Russian garbage from 30 years ago. Can't be worried about crime and upset over the crime bill, either.
Blacklabel
opportunity zones and funding of HBCUs, both specific to only Black Americans.
JJE
He signed a bill on the resolute desk (with some female/actress singer looking over him) letting black people unfairly and harshly jailed by laws Joe authored and voted for (look above).
In other words, he actually conducted the first sensible reforms to mass incarceration - but the Biden supporters will never, never admit it!
JJE
... a fair chance and anther go.
bass4funk
Biden and the Dems less so.
Ok, but that has nothing to do with the F-fail grade the Dems get for destroying the Black community with their toxic policies
https://newrepublic.com/article/159106/democrats-trump-urban-policy-kimberly-klacik
Yes, as Trump said, "Why not try something different, what have you got to lose?"
Hardly, but West can be as nutty as he wants, he knows the truth. One, he will never be President and Two, the reality of what the Democrat party has always been for Blacks.
https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/6bQdKPLDjyo2s0I8c60gA2/aec7a4feb53cdd469d9c59bc3dd5cc64/swain-the_inconvenient_truth_about_the_democratic_party-transcript.pdf
Blacklabel
The customers. Not the workers.
nothing but silence on the fear has Trump done only for Black Americans, huh? Criminal Justice reform. Housing reform. Need more?
this is the sound….of silence.
it’s beautiful.
Blacklabel
Joe did a lot for Black Americans.
Separated his kids from Blacks in the racial jungle.
Imprisoned Black fathers.
authored the crime bill, directly targeting Black Americans.
made Kamala VP who imprisoned Black Americans for weed, while smoking it herself.
he’s done so much. Lol
TaiwanIsNotChina
Both proposed by Democrats. Weak tea, my friend, weak tea.
TaiwanIsNotChina
You'd have slightly more credibility if you weren't personally in favor of all of these positions.
Blacklabel
Nobody was in federal prison for marijuana, so no one got released. Real estate? No one can afford it in his economy. Student debt? That’s for anyone.
Lame list of what he has done for Black Americans.
Now look at Trump list again. No wonder he is on track to get 20%+ of the Black vote. When Republicans usually get 6% or less.
Bob Fosse
Yet the overwhelming majority of black voters did and will vote for him. Apparently they know something you don’t.
Cards fan
No. The workers. Nice try.
lmao Silence? I already addressed your silly comment. Wake me up when he cracks 20% of the black vote.
Housing reform like this?
https://www.cbpp.org/research/trump-administrations-proposed-rule-would-perpetuate-racist-and-discriminatory-housing
This really shouldn't surprise anyone given that Tom Barrack is a big Trump ally, and his corporation has bought up tens of billions in single family houses in some of the largest markets in the US, driving up housing costs there. Trump and crew are really for the people. By the people, I mean the ultra rich.
You said only for black people. This 1) isn't only for black people, and 2) was a popular bill with bipartisan support in both chambers of congress.
TaiwanIsNotChina
You have another list beyond the two Democrat bills?
Blacklabel
All for Black people, thanks Joe!
Lunched with white supremacists in the Senate.
gave the eulogy for an ex KKK leader.
praised the first Black president: "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."
wow the first one! So everyone before, MLK and Jesse and Mandela and his grifting supporter Al Sharpton, were not any of that?
Blacklabel
awwwww….but I’m not in favor of any of those.
Democrats have destroyed the Black family with their crime policies.
Cards fan
Lmao You're stuck 30 years in the past. Did Biden say there were good people on both sides of white supremacist marches and counter protests in Charlottesville? Does Biden routinely call for immigration cuts from all but white countries? To read your silly posts, one would think that Trump is an amazing ally to African-Americans yet can't even get 20% of the black vote. Why would that be?
bass4funk
Historically, Blacks have voted Democrat by default for over 70 years, slowly that is thankfully changing, baby steps becoming toddler steps.
Blacklabel
HBCU Executive order, you mean?
Opportunity zone? Exec order too.
oops.
bass4funk
No, Bide said worse about Blacks
And who makes up most of the crime in the US, sadly a lot of people of color, pointing that out is not racist. sorry.
No one is saying that, but if you have been following the same exact playbook for over 70 years, trying something different is not going to hurt and if it doesn't work out, then you can go back to the party of empty promises, no law against it.
Blacklabel
Ummm…wake up?
“Black voter support for Trump up from 4% to 23%, poll finds”
Cards fan
Nope. lol
I said vote. A poll is not a vote for starters. Next, it is downright comical for the Trump backers to think they know more about the needs of the black community when they're stuck at getting 23% of the black vote, compared to the 77% going to Democrats. Pure genius.
Bob Fosse
So why do you think this is relevant to the election in November this year? Toddler steps won’t be enough.
plasticmonkey
Trump wants to apply the death penalty to drug dealers. And has proposed shooting shoplifters on sight.
Love your progressive concerns for “the blacks”.
Fo you agree with the Donald that he has done more for “the blacks” (his words) than Abraham Lincoln?
bass4funk
Yes, you go after Trump over something he did 7 years ago and beyond that, more liberal hypocrisy
Because the Dems know they don't have a leg to stand on.
Because and taking a page out of the Democrat playbook, it is all relevant, and like Rahm Emanuel once said, "Never let a good crisis go to waste."
But a lot though, maybe not for Europeans, not that it matters...
dagon
All of these self-labelled Trump supporters trumpeting Afro-American support for Trump beyond a tiny minority dazzled by celebrity like the MAGA mindless are hilarious.
https://www.salon.com/2020/06/01/cornel-west-says-neo-fascist-gangster-trump-exposes-america-as-a-failed-social-experiment_partner/
This is the real view from educated brothas.
Bob Fosse
No, ‘todder steps’ are insignificant. You are tying your donkey to another lame wagon
Don’t be rude to Europeans. Their opinion is just as valid as yours.
plasticmonkey
You straddle two continents. Sounds pretty globalist to me. Whatever happened to America First?
bass4funk
Which have nothing to do with the policies that the left created and decimated an entire culture