Still, a Man on Fire because Kamala Harris was just wrong
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A few days after Tim Scott’s insulting response, VP Harris gave a similarly ridiculous response. Her response proves that the Black and African American communities can barely trust any politician, whether they are Democrat or Republican, whether they are Black or white. These politicians do not have a genuine concern for a community that has suffered generational pain and misery.
They both said that the United States was not a racist nation. They were both playing politics with the lives of Black and African American people. They were both selling out the Black community.
Mike Pence was the vice president of Donald Trump. He often would justify anything and everything that Donald Trump did, no matter how immoral it was, like justifying putting immigrant babies in cages. When Mike Pence did this, he was criticized by some for being a lackey for Donald Trump. What is the difference between what Mike Pence did and what Kamala Harris did when she said the United States is not racist?
I criticized Barack Obama for many of his policies, and I now criticize this president and vice president for this policy. The fact is that, just like a tweet from Donald Trump, when Harris stated that the United States was not racist, she was setting the official policy of the Biden administration.
I was stunned and shocked by the Vice President when she said America is not a racist country. She was playing politics with the lives of Black people. As soon as Democrats get a chance, they sell out the Black community. This is what happened with Harris. She was playing politics. Yes, it’s essential to understand that you have to play politics to get bills passed in Congress, but why do they always sell out the Black community.
Bill Clinton did it (see Bill Clinton's betrayal of Sister soldier on YouTube), Barack Obama did it to immigrants (see how many immigrants Barack Obama deported), and now this administration is doing it as well. As soon as politicians get a chance, they sell out the Black community. Tell me, how much money did Barack Obama put in HBCUs?
Every time the Democrats want to negotiate with the Republicans, they sell out the Black community. It happened during reconstruction but in reverse. In those days, the Black community supported the Republicans, and the Republicans sold out the Black community to win the presidency.
During Roosevelt’s administration, they wanted to pass the tremendous New Deal and tried to pass a minimum wage. Roosevelt, in negotiation with Southern politicians, decided to change the bill to leave out domestic workers and those who work in restaurants because, in those days in the South, most of those workers were Black people, and southern white people didn’t want to give their housekeepers the minimum wage.
Every time the Democrats must negotiate with moderates Democrats, the Black community loses.
Martin Luther King Jr. knew this. As he wrote in the Letter from the Birmingham Jail: “I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years, I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
The Biden Administration needs to take this as a warning. Do not continue to sell out the Black community.
Playing politics with this issue is not worth it. There is another important election coming up next year, and Biden is going to need the Black community even more than before; if Biden continues to send Kamala Harris out there to say things like “America is not a racist country,” the democrats will lose the Black community, particularly the young Black activist community and if that happens the Republicans will win back the Congress and the presidency once again.
