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Joe Biden has launched one of his most scathing attacks yet on Donald Trump’s record of racism, suggesting that the former US president would have acted differently to the January 6 2021 insurrection if was led by Black people.

The remarks, at a dinner hosted by a civil rights organisation in a critical swing state, pointed to an intensifying battle between Biden and Trump for African American voters ahead of November’s presidential election.

“Let me ask you,” Biden said during an address to an NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) dinner in Detroit. “What do you think he would have done on January 6 if Black Americans had stormed the Capitol?”

There was a collective gasp and murmur in the cavernous convention centre, where an estimated 5,000 guests had gathered. The president insisted: “No, I’m serious. What do you think? I can only imagine.”

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[-] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago
[-] DaBabyAteMaDingo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Ah yes how can we forget the two dozen armed black people practicing their 2nd amendment that caused Reagan to sign a gun control law so said blacks couldn't have guns anymore 🤣😂

[-] BadlyTimedLuck@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago

Good point.

[-] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

i don't know, this strikes me as dirty pool, the sort that you get bitten in the ass for. I guess we're pretending in this scenario that it wasn't Trump who called them there and organized them in the first place? We aren't so desperate and out of ideas - already! - as to try to pretend he would call them there and then entrap his own supporters just because of their skin colour, are we? Cuz that's stooping pretty low and there ain't no call for that when you're literally running against the gutter; quite the opposite. All you gotta do is run on the facts. (Or RUN AT ALL, HILARY)

This just comes off as another white guy playing the race card on your behalf so as to get something out of it.

Besides, surely there were two or three black folk there, weren't there? Surely! ;)

[-] catch22@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago

According to Biden if you are black and you voted for Trump, nothing, because - “You got more questions, but I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/joe-biden-you-aint-black-apology-commentary-1004537/

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