Progressive Politics

His racism was not simply driven by donations. Biden has been a loud & avowed racist throughout his entire life. He was against school desegregation, proclaiming he didn’t want his kids growing up in a ”racial jungle.” He was close friends with Strom Thurmond, the super racist fuck who Biden delivered a eulogy for. He was a close associate of white supremacists throughout the country and in politics. He openly did not value Arab lives, and called for their deaths with ease, and targeted them in writing the Patriot Act. He openly targeted black Americans with his crime bill, and led the push for a different set of mandatory minimums against black people.

People forget, but the entire reason Biden was brought in as Obama’s vp was to appease the racists in the party. There was significant resistance to a black candidate, and a lot of Hillary supporters declaring they would never vote for a black man to be president. The whole birther movement was intentionally started by the Clinton camp. But Biden was the most famously racist in the party, so they hoped he would bring these people back into the fold.

To see Biden launch his post-Obama presidential campaign, touting himself as anti-racist because he was Obama’s vp, made me feel so fucking sick inside. I never believed he was doing a damn thing to prevent the genocide. Biden called for this genocide throughout his political life, and this exactly what he’s always wanted.