What’s interesting is that I never seen militants discuss Biden in a more complete sense. They often discuss him on surface terms and often use misleading or incomplete statements to run away with a narrative and snowflake outrage. That’s not to say that Biden hasn’t said comments that are worthy of criticism, but I’ve also never seen discussion on things Biden actually favored because I guess agreeing “Jim Crow Joe” would be harmful to the narrative.
Everyone here cried, used an incomplete quote regarding Biden saying he didn’t want his child to grow up in a racial jungle. The narrative ya’ll established is that Biden didn’t want his child growing up around black people. That’s not true. Here’s the actual quote.
Senator Biden said:
"Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions built so high that it is going to explode at some point. We have got to make some move on this."
Biden was talking about the racial tensions surrounding busing and desegregation and that if the government didn’t have an orderly solution to integration, the tension would increase and create a volatile environment that he didn’t want his child in. I don’t see anything wrong with that.
Now, this was Biden’s stance on busing.
Senator Biden said:
“In cases where a school system has racially segregated by gerrymandering district lines or by other legalistic means, Biden said he supports desegregation by any legal means at hand — including busing,” the Wilmington News Journal reported at the time. “However, for school districts which are all white or all black ‘because of historical pattern not involving segregation practices disapproved by a court’ he is against busing.”
He thought forced busing was bullshyt. Now, Biden’s ultimate positions on busing definitely deserve criticism, but here is something nobody mentions:
Senator Biden said:
“I have become convinced that busing is a bankrupt concept,” Biden said as he stood to support Helms’s amendment. He added that the Senate should instead focus on “whether or not we are really going to provide a better educational opportunity for blacks and minority groups in this country.”
Interesting. I seem to recall a lot of ya’ll being against integration and instead wanted the government to put resources into black communities like ya’ll favorite fake outrage militant here:
This is what you get when you fight for integration instead of equal access to resources.
integration has been a disaster for our community. Let segregation reign, just run us our check so we can build our own society.
Biden directly says this 45 years ago and I haven’t seen this discussed here. Why?
Biden said:
Biden has also noted that he faced political pressure back home to oppose busing, and that his constituents actually called for him to go even further. Rather than busing, he said that the government needed to focus on reducing residential segregation and improving conditions in black communities, measures that are undoubtedly helpful, but would take much longer to implement than a busing program.
Biden supported housing desegregation and putting resources into black communities over busing because he thought it would be more effective. Again. I’ve never seen this discussed here.
1975 said:
Biden echoed this in remarks to NPR that same year, saying, “I think the concept of busing … that we are going to integrate people so that they all have the same access and they learn to grow up with one another and all the rest, is a rejection of the whole movement of black pride … a rejection of the entire black awareness concept, where black is beautiful, black culture should be studied; and the cultural awareness of the importance of their own identity, their own individuality.”
Interesting. I seem to recall seeing posts here about how integration was harmful to black culture. But that Biden quote sounds pretty damn pro-black to me.
Also, I never heard anyone here mention Biden burying Reagan’s Secretary of State during a 1986 Senate hearing over the treatment of black South Africans during Apartheid. Reagan, his team and supporters supposedly wanted to end Apartheid, but they really thought it was more important to maintain economic relations with South Africa rather than end Apartheid while also spreading communist fear mongering regarding Nelson Mandela and his supporters.
This hearing partly led to the Anti-Apartheid legislation that overrode Reagan’s veto.
Biden is not some hateful white boogeyman racist that you all want him to be. He’s simply a white man that had some good policy ideas, some terrible policy ideas, good Senate votes, terrible Senate votes, and has made racially insensitive remarks in the past that deserve criticism along with the bad ideas and votes.