My latest in PJ Media:
If President Trump is really a “racist,” as Joe Biden claims, he is one of the strangest racists who ever lived: before the coronavirus hit, black and Hispanic unemployment was at record low levels, the president has repeatedly hailed the achievements of black Americans, and Trump himself, before he entered politics as an unapologetic, non-establishment Republican, was widely respected even by the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton for his work for the black community. But none of that matters to Joe Biden or whomever is putting words in his mouth: they want us to believe that Trump is a racist, indeed, the first racist president, because for years they’ve been destroying Republicans with this charge, however false it may be. Why stop now? But Biden has missed a few Democrats.
Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster recounts that progressive hero Woodrow Wilson, for example, was born in Virginia a bit more than four years before the Civil War broke out. Throughout his life, he retained the racist attitudes he learned in his youth, and when he became president, he made them U.S. government policy. In 1915, the notorious film The Birth of a Nation became the first motion picture to get a screening in the White House; the film portrayed the Ku Klux Klan as heroes, denigrated blacks in numerous ways, and quoted Wilson as a respected authority.
Wilson was also quoted decrying the supposed “policy of congressional leaders” to “put the white South under the heel of the black South.” In response, Wilson went on, as quoted in the film: “The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation… until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.”
The showing of The Birth of a Nation was indicative of Wilson’s attitudes: during his administration, government departments in Washington were segregated.
Rating America’s Presidents also shows how another Democrat, James Buchanan, presided over the dissolution of the Union in the years leading up to the Civil War, appealing to the South not to secede by adopting a full-hearted, enthusiastic endorsement of slavery and all it represented. On March 6, 1857, two days after Buchanan took office, the Supreme Court, under the leadership of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, published its infamous ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford, a case that had been brought by Dred Scott, a slave who had been taken into free territory and argued that, as a result, he was now free. The court voted 7–2 against Scott. In his opinion, Taney wrote that blacks were a “subordinate and inferior class of beings” who “are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word ‘citizens’ in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States.”
There is much more. Read the rest here.
Dave from San Antonio says
Biden seems to miss a lot of things…every day…all the time.
mortimer says
It is unconscionable to slander and call someone a vile epithet without any proof of it. There is more evidence that Biden has been cosy with racists. Trump never has.
The Dems want to keep black people and others ‘on the plantation’ where they do what their old white mastahs tell them to do … men like Biden who speak to them condescendingly if they dare not vote Democrat. The Dems are the real racists, for they claim to speak for black people when historically, they didn’t.
The Dems are the racist political party that started the Civil War and that invented the Ku Klux Klan and the Jim Crow laws.
Slander is all the Dems have at this point. Americans don’t want their communism or the destruction of the capitalist stock market system.
Dave from San Antonio says
Noticed how the dems keep stepping up their attacks? I think it’s a sign of panic. Down deep…they know Biden is a loser…they really don’t want him out in public…especially without someone holding his leash…and the thought that someone might ask him a question probably keeps them awake at night.
mortimer says
Joe even stumbles when reading the teleprompter.
Rufolino says
When the argument has been lost, people often resort to slander. It’s all they have left.
gravenimage says
So true, Rufolino.
Wellington says
Fine article by Robert Spencer.
Biden is not only an empty suit, he is despicable. He will do or say anything for political reasons. He and his family are also highly corrupt. His son, Hunter, making HUGE amounts being on a board of a Ukrainian energy company while knowing nothing about either Ukraine or energy, all the while when Biden was still Vice-President threatening Ukraine with not receiving a billion dollars in aid from the US if they did not fire the prosecutor investigating the massive corruption of the Ukrainian company that Biden’s son was being paid huge bucks by, is just one example of how horribly corrupt the entire Biden family is.
Of course, the MSM, effectively an arm of the Democratic Party, cares not at all to investigate any of this. Nothing to see here, folks, just move on (but think the MSM would if one of Trump’s children were in the exact same situation as Biden’s son?).
And there’s another problem with Biden that is known by many here in America, even by many Democrats, to wit, he’s just not that smart. While I have sundry reservations about Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama, I have never questioned their intelligence. They are both quite intelligent. Not so with Biden. He is, as Rudy Giuliani has said, as dumb as a person can be and still graduate from law school.
Biden also has little understanding of other areas of knowledge, including American history, and which Robert Spencer detailed with Democratic Presidents like James Buchanan (1857-1861) and Woodrow Wilson (1913-1924).
The fact that Biden is going to be the Democratic Party nominee for President of the most powerful country on earth should tell anyone of sense and knowledge just how far the Democratic Party has fallen. And all this is compounded by the fact that Biden is no longer “even at his best.” Nope, whatever there there existed with Biden when he was “optimum,” even that isn’t there now. So, a quite lesser person even at his best is now less than a lesser person at their best. Oh yeah, much trouble ahead, especially if Biden is elected POTUS.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
An excellent and accurate post, my compliments.
I’m not sure that the United States could ever fully recover following a Joe Biden presidency.
I do have a question for you:
Do you have any idea why Jim Webb Jr., a former United States Senator from Virginia and former Secretary of the Navy, couldn’t gain any traction during the run up to the 2016 presidential election?
Perhaps I’m wrong, but he at least appeared to be a very intelligent centrist Democrat, similar to JFK.
You likely know more…
Wellington says
As I see it, James, it is because Webb, good man that he is, was already a political dinosaur within his own party by 2016.
The Democratic Party has been descending since the days of LBJ and no one knew this better than an old Democrat like Daniel Patrick Moynihan and someone who still knows this like the old Democrat, Alan Dershowitz.
I have been arguing for years now that the single greatest tragedy to confront America in the last thirty years or so, and which has its roots in that horrible decade, the 1960’s, is the transformation of the Democratic Party from the liberal party of old to a radical leftist party becoming worse by the year (and led by pathetic figureheads such as Pelosi, Schumer and Biden who are so clueless that they don’t even know what has happened to their own party, so solely concerned are they with political power for its own sake). I will go on here for historical reasons so forgive me.
The Whig Party, which took over what was left (not much) of the Federalist Party, which party of Hamilton died out by 1820, also went the way of ancient history because it was destroyed, finally, by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Southern Whigs en masse joined the Democratic Party or left politics completely and northern Whigs went with the new Republican Party (the third anti-slavery party following the Liberty Party and the Free Soil Party and which third anti-slavery party has “stuck” to this day—and all part of the reason why black Americans should come back in huge numbers to this party) or joined with a minority of northern Democrats (or less unwisely with the Know-Nothing Party) who saw Stephen Douglas’s disastrous repudiation of the Missouri Compromise Line per the Kansas-Nebraska Act as the death knell for the Union, all very much confirmed by Bleeding Kansas, the Bully Brooks incident, the Pottawatomie Massacre, the Dred Scott decision, the Lecompton Constitution disaster, John Brown’s Raid at Harper’s Ferry, et al.
Civil War followed. I fear we are on the verge, if not already there, of a new civil war, this one primarily social and not in a military vein (at least not yet), by the collapse again of one of the two major political parties in the US. Not lookin’ good.
A strong two-party system, though sometimes boring, is easily the finest way to preserve democratic republics (a multi-party system which appeals to two clueless groups, youth and intellectuals, virtually always leads to instability, more or less). Once one party collapses in such a system, as the Whig Party did in the 1850’s and the Democratic Party is presently doing in our own era, all bets are off respecting a democratic republic’s viability. This is where we are at present. As I said before, not lookin’ good.
James Lincoln says
Much thanks for your detailed reply, Wellington.
Wellington says
Just needed to correct Wilson’s Presidential years, which were 1913-1921. I believe I put in 1924 because that was the year Wilson died. Just for the record and, damn, how I hate making mistakes. Inexcusable. An utter disgrace.
Mary says
I heard that the Democrats are trying to get the Vice presidential nominee of there choice, and if Biden wins he will be replaced by the vp
gravenimage says
Not immediately, certainly.
Keith O says
This is just another blatant example of how the Dumbocraps are trying to erase history and as the victors re-write history into something more acceptable to their voter base.
Biden and his cohorts will say and do whatever is needed to keep their collective arses in their ivory towers whilst the world burns around them. This includes playing the blame game.
FYI says
I sure hope Joe Biden doesn’t get elected.What would happen if there was a crisis?
Joe[ ‘wandering hands’] Biden would get lost on the way to the bathroom:
The Ladies bathroom.
Kepha says
About the best the Democrats can do is yell “racist”! At anyone who disagrees with the radical agenda. It’s something I sensed decades ago. Frankly, I was more than a little amused when Louis Gohmert of Texas suggested that the Democrats either disband or change their name due to their founders having been slaveholders.
Biden’s strongest suits are that people are easily swayed, and that the public memory is short. BTW, I’m a GOP “never Trumper” who bit his tongue over the prospect of Shrillary Shroooo as POTUS. This time, no reservations.
Gray says
Seems to me that the term .’Racist’ has, through overuse, now degenerated into a meaningless term of abuse – kind of like the words ‘Idiot’ and ‘Moron.’ If the dreaded ‘r’ word still has any precise meaning (which I now doubt) surely it can only mean someone who dares to disagree with any aspect of the Left’s policy on (so-called) ‘indigenous issues’ and’ immigration,’ as those policies may exist on the Left from time to time? And, of course, anyone who disagrees with any other aspect of Left wing orthodoxy can also expect to be abused as a ‘fascist.’ It should be a matter of huge concern that we no longer have words to describe accurately the realities of ‘racism’ and ‘fascism’, but it clearly isn’t. Indeed, some of our Universities are now telling us that the very rules of Grammar are themselves manifestations of Patriarchy and White Privilege. So of course Joe Biden, and his cronies will be enthusiastically labelling anyone disagreeing with them as ‘ racist.’ It would be surprising if they did not.
gravenimage says
A Few of the Democrats Biden Missed When He Called Trump Our First Racist President
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Good grief–what tosh. Trump is not racist, and others–mostly Democrats–were.
Wellington says
I wonder, gravenimage, when the Democrats will get around to tearing down statues, renaming buildings and highways, etc. to Robert Byrd, former Democratic Senator from West Virginia, and THE ONLY member of Congress in our era to be a member of the KKK?
There is also the “matter” that Harry Truman in his letters to his wife, Bess, and to a few close friends, referred to blacks as “niggers” (personally I detest this word) and Jew as “kikes” (a detestable word as well). To Truman’s credit, though, he integrated the Armed Forces of America and within minutes of Israel’s existence recognized it as an independent country.
Personal flaws alone don’t equate to reprehensible flaws in the public sector. As another example, Robert E. Lee shortly after the Civil War ended and before he became president of Washington College, now Washington and Lee University (wonder how long this will last?), startled many white folks by receiving communion at the same altar with a black. How easy it is to be virtuous long after divisive matters existed—like this clueless, self-righteous, massively ignorant generation (with due exceptions of course) that is the millennial generation.
Stunning that the Democratic Party was the party of slavery, secession, the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow, et al. and yet still so many identify the Republican Party, which was born out of opposition to slavery in the 1850’s, with being the party of bigotry and racism. As so often has been the case in history, mankind gets things ass-backwards (no better example, I would argue, than the continued existence and exaltation by many of Islam).
Phony world. Stupid world. Ignorant world. Big time.
gravenimage says
All good points, Wellington.
craig says
By the watered down terms of racism that we have today every President, except Obama, has been a racist. But if we limit it to actual bigotry, the idea that non whites are less than human, non deserving of rights it’s significantly less. Still you have the big ones like Jackson, Buchanan, Wilson, and lesser known ones like Cleveland and Jefferson. What do they all have in common. They all were Democrats. A party committed only to power at any cost. When they thought white supremacy was the winning horse the created the KKK, when that didn’t pan out they abandoned them, now they think antifa and BLM are what will allow them to create their totalitarian state. If the Democrats win in November there’s no recovering from that.
OLD GUY says
Your wrong Obama is also a racist, as is every human being on the planet to some extent, its kinda like being a sports fan. Everyone has a favorite team, some ware it every day and show it on everything, while others only put the jersey or hat on on game day. Then there are some who don’t ever show it but cheer when their team makes the playoffs. It’s a human nature thing to stick together with your own kind, be it race, tribe or country.
The true point is to be tolerant and appreciate the contribution of others and respect everyones rights and property as you would want to be treated.
God says love thy neighbor, he didn’t qualify who that neighbor is.
craig says
I totally agree that he’s a racist. That’s not my point. We live in a day when perception is reality, Under the rules of the bizzarp world we live in no black person can be racist. Even the Black Hebrew Israelites, who stand on the street corners ranting and raving about how non blacks aren’t human and one day they will rule the world and enslave all the other people aren’t racist. We aren’t allowed to say all lives matter. Black lives matter with the unspoken addendum that other lives don’t. Under the demented rules of race “people of color”(a nebulous pointless phrase) get a free pass on their hatreds and their actions. A BLM activist could walk into a school this fall and kill white children and the empty skulls in academia or the media would not call this a racist act because he’s black and has to live with the stigma of slavery. Everything wrong with their world is our fault. That’s the reality of the world. They believe that there can be no peace until they have equal rights(while being unable to list rights that they don’ posses) there won’t be peace until there are equal responsibilities.
AP says
Great point! Way to go.
James says
You should include LBJ, President Lydon B Johnson. After he signed the 1964 Civil Rights Bill he is reported to have said, The N—–s will vote Democrat for the next hundred years. Remember, using the N word nowadays is enough to condemn one as racist.
AP says
Biden will say and do anything to get elected. If you are blue he will try to convince you that you are really red. Never listen to someone who made millions sell out your country to the Chinese.