The US president Joe Biden asks at civil rights event: ‘what do you think he would have done … if Black Americans had stormed the Capitol?’

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.”

  • Count042@lemmy.ml
    722·
    6 months ago

    Too bad that Biden chose to alienate a requisite member of his coalition.

    Hold him accountable for his decisions.

    He chose an action, supporting genocide, that will cost him the general, and chose not to run a primary.

    Edit: I don’t understand these responses that try and imply voting is an individual moral decision. It has the same logic of blaming the consumer and individual choices for carbon based climate change instead of the people with culpability and power to change things.

    Edit edit: I think at this point, unless someone dies, that Trump will be elected. To be clear, I am not voting for Trump.

    • ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      155·
      6 months ago

      All well and good, but I would rather not suffer through another four years (or more, the way he talks) of Trump just to teach Biden a lesson. Seems a bit like cutting off your nose to spite your face.

      • Count042@lemmy.ml
        714·
        6 months ago

        I’m not telling you who to vote for.

        All of this thread is off of a post calling Palestinian Americans and Muslim Americans stupid for not voting, as a bloc, for Biden.

        I am arguing against the scapegoating that will come against an enthic minority when the outcome of Biden’s actions are that he doesn’t get elected again.

        Vote for whomever you want. Don’t blame the family members of victims of an ongoing genocide for the outcome.