Poor Joe Biden can’t win one way or the other. First he goes for what he thinks is a softball interview (bad staff homework there) and ends up saying something that will alienate black voters, not engender their support.
Then when the pathetic candidate tries to apologize, the talk show host comes out with a radical statement, thus now, after Biden sucked up to him in apology, associating Biden with a black radical who wants to overturn the entire American system and is, by implication, calling the U.S. a racist nation. This not only imperils swing votes but possibly the Democrat hold on moderate black votes as well.
This is a far cry, and much less effective, from the decades-old Bill Clinton Sister Souljah strategy of luring black radicals into public traps so Democrats can seem more moderate to white voters and thus capture the swing votes they need to win the presidency.
Such is the tactical and strategic acumen of the Biden campaign. The latest manifestation of that mastery was on Saturday.
“I see black communities all across America catching hell regardless of who is in the White House,” radio host Charlamagne tha God told The Hill on Saturday in response to the controversy surrounding Biden’s ill-judged remark.
“Because we have a bunch of underlying conditions created by systemic racism that have never been fixed. The whole system needs to be dismantled and rebuilt, and he’s [Biden] been a very intricate part of that system.”
What the chuffed up disc jockey is doing here is condemning the whole nation as a part of a racist system, saying we’ve done nothing about it, or at least not enough, and then he tops it off with calling Biden himself a racist by his association with that system.
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