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Biden’s Comments are just Black America’s ‘Chickens coming home to roost’.

Michael Daniels
5 min readMay 23, 2020

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Joe Biden’s statement earlier today caused a twitter storm. Here’s what it shows us about the Black Community.

I’m not outraged. I’m not disappointed or surprised. I’m glad that Mr. Biden made these comments, because this is how he views the Black Community. I’m not shocked by the audacity of a privileged white man that worked with segregationists to oppose busing in the 70’s & 80’s to now believe he can say something like this. I’m not appalled that a geriatric white man that was a main architect of mass incarceration in the 90’s feeling he has the authority to pass judgment on someone’s blackness today. None of this was a surprise because, in my view, this is Black America’s chickens coming home to roost.

As you can see, Black Voters have largely voted Democrat for over 50 years. Graphic by BlackDemographics.com

The first lesson that I learned as a boy going to the polls with my mother every election day was to always vote for the Democrats — no matter what. Their…

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Michael Daniels
Michael Daniels

Written by Michael Daniels

I’m an Anarcho- Communist writer that focuses mostly on Black Liberation. Student of Prison Abolition & Pan-Africanism. Not quite 30 yet.

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