Joe Biden’s hard-left speechwriters slipped their leash again last week in the jeremiad they concocted for Biden’s commencement address at historically black Morehouse College.
It contained more than the customary boilerplate anti-American sentiments. It was an unspoken attack on whites, with an unfortunate, condescending message to the black graduates that a previous president called the “soft bigotry of low expectations.”
America doesn’t love blacks, Biden said in so many words. It’s 1955, and Jim Crow is the law of the land.
But I, Joe Biden, he seemed to say, have your back. I’m here to give you a hand up.
Without me, you’ll fail.
You’re Victims
After discussing himself and his past for a few minutes, as Biden is wont to do, he told the grads they were victims, along with the communities from which they came.
“The pandemic robbed you of so much,” and “you started college just as George Floyd was murdered and there was a reckoning on race,” he said.
That lie about Floyd, who died of a fentanyl overdose while being restrained by police, segued into yet another:
It’s natural to wonder if democracy you hear about actually works for you.
What is democracy if Black men are being killed in the street?
What is democracy if a trail of broken promises still leave black — black communities behind?
What is democracy if you have to be 10 times better than anyone else to get a fair shot?
And most of all, what does it mean, as we’ve heard before, to be a black man who loves his country even if it doesn’t love him back in equal measure?
Biden again said “black men are being killed on the streets,” but of course he failed to say that the killers are mostly other black men, not white cops or “white supremacists,” as he clearly implied with what followed.
To “bear witness” to those deceased men, Americans must “call out the poison of white supremacy, to root out systemic racism.”
Then came another appeal to Floyd:
I stood up for George — with George Floyd’s family to help create a country where you don’t need to have that talk with your son or grandson as they get pulled over.
Biden also falsely claimed that blacks must prove themselves “10 times better” than whites to get jobs, another preposterous lie in the age of diversity, equity, and inclusion, when corporate America goes out of its way not only to offend whites but to keep them off the payroll.
Biden didn’t leave out the obligatory shot at his predecessors. Donald Trump, he said without using POTUS 45’s name, is comparable to the “grand wizards and fascists” of the past because Trump said penniless Third World “migrants” are “poisoning the blood of our country.”
But Biden wasn’t finished:
Extremists close the doors of opportunity; strike down affirmative action; attack the values of diversity, equality, and inclusion.
I never thought when I was graduating in 1968 — as your honoree just was — we talked about — I never thought I’d be in — present in a time when there’s a national effort to ban books — not to write history but to erase history.
They don’t see you in the future of America. But they’re wrong. To me, we make history, not erase it. We know Black history is American history.
As with this State of the Union rant, Biden didn’t offer a list of the forbidden books that Republicans want banned. But he was probably referring to the homosexual and “transgender” pornography and grooming manuals that his party wants in public school libraries.
Reaction
The pro-abortion president, who touted his wrist Rosary and Catholic faith, did not go unchallenged.
Reacting to his remarks about the Israel-Hamas war that has devastated Gaza, some students turned their backs on Biden and departed.
On Twitter, Human Events columnist Adam Coleman summarized what some black students and alumni Must have thought:
Speaking on Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld’s eponymous program, leftist Bill Maher, who frequently ridicules left-wing extremism, said Biden’s speech was an “anachronistic” appeal to a past that no longer exists.
“It’s not helpful,” he said. “That speech would have made some sense some years ago … but we’re not in the past”:
Let’s live in the year we’re living in. We’re not living in the year where you have to be 10 times better to succeed if you’re a person of color, and in some instances, it’s an advantage. In some places, it’s not an advantage. But we’re not living in that world he’s talking about. And I don’t think that helps anybody.”
Biden’s speech was akin, again, to his deranged State of the Union rant, in which he delivered this incandescently false claim:
Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault here at home as they are today. What makes our moment rare is that freedom and democracy are under attack, both at home and overseas, at the very same time.
