Thank you for posting to Biden’s full comment, which is worth quoting here.
“Yesterday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back as police attempted to restrain him from getting into his car. His children watched from inside the car and bystanders watched in disbelief.
And this morning, the nation wakes up yet again with grief and outrage that yet another Black American is a victim of excessive force. This calls for an immediate, full and transparent investigation and the officers must be held accountable.
These shots pierce the soul of our nation. Jill and I pray for Jacob’s recovery and for his children.
Equal justice has not been real for Black Americans and so many others. We are at an inflection point. We must dismantle systemic racism. It is the urgent task before us. We must fight to honor the ideals laid in the original American promise, which we are yet to attain: That all men and women are created equal, but more importantly that they must be treated equally.”
Great, inspiring words, aimed at all decent people.
BTW, I notice that you haven’t mentioned the white teenage out-of-state militia member who happened to kill people during the protest. Why not? What do you have to say about that shooting?
Democrats probably won’t want to get in that kind of discussion. Biden finished near the bottom of his class and Harris failed the bar exam the first try.
Biden’s not stupid, he’ll make a separation at some point, more than once if he has to. Maybe Harris will get in on the action.
Exclusively blaming Trump as some might suggest, is not going to be enough.
He can disavow assholes without disavowing BLM, it’s not that difficult. He’ll just have to listen to fringy Twitter cry for a couple of days and threaten not to vote for him, I’m sure he can handle that and isn’t afraid of it.
Every Dem presidential nominee has to do some variation of it at some point.
Partially, yeah, being the poster boy (poster grandpa?) of failed Establishment Democratic-ism. Biden was part of the problem over the last few decades, now he’s desperately trying to reinvent himself as a solution. A return to centrism is appealing to those who benefited under it, but it’s not meaningfully better for those who were already oppressed before under the Democrats. Some folks aren’t buying this Biden-as-savior marketing and are simply saying “fuck it all”. Or just opportunistically looting.
You don’t get widespread national violent riots without serious fucked-up-ness in your country, the same fucked-up-ness largely caused by two corrupt parties vying for power over people. When neither Team Blue nor Team Red really cares about you, Team You and your buddies is all ya got left.