Biden and Ras – Kaieteur News

Biden and Ras


Kaieteur News – Last August, during the Republican National Convention, now former Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence made what would have seemed an unconscious gaffe, the kind of wording that is the result of lazy speech writing . Pence said:
“The American people know that we do not have to choose between supporting law enforcement and standing with our African-American neighbors to improve their quality of life, education, jobs and safety. And from the first days of this administration, we have done both, and we will continue to support law enforcement and continue to support our African-American and minority communities across this land for another four years. Now Joe Biden says America is systematically racist… ”
Pence, as speaker after speaker at the convention – mostly White Americans – tried to project the message, against the Black Lives Matter invasion protest and increasingly contentious talk on racial inequality in America, that there was not really a racial problem. However, the talk show hosts and commentators immediately raised the apparent duality that seemed to be a gaffe in Pence’s speech, namely distinguishing between the legally implicit “American people” that Pence identified with their “African-American neighbors” who enjoyed a close proximity to the Americans and a technical part of the American label, but which was clearly different from the true American citizens.
It wasn’t a mistake though. It was a theme that Pence would return to again and again, for example at a town hall meeting later in August, and by re-tweeting the core motif from his official page in September, reinforcing the concept of two America continually, the core and implicit in White America striving. to provide a good life for a subset of effectively resident aliens. Pence was the most passive-aggressive of what was racist President Donald Trump, a man who rode to power on questioning the citizenship validity of his immediate predecessor, Barack Obama, and with the open support of the Klu Klux Klan.
Joe Biden, his successor, comes to power at the most crucial time in 50 years when he takes the issue of race in America head first. He himself has joined the Presidency which was embraced by two historically racist figures – he served as Vice President for eight years under America’s first African-American President, Obama, and serves as Vice President first historic African / Indian-American president. , Kamala Harris. In fact, much of his mandate will be to ensure that the theme of diversification of representation and power that has marked his later political career somehow not only cleans Trump-era racism, but vaccinates America’s grand experiment against further significant outbreaks in the future.
Going forward, there are of course clear issues such as police violence against and mass incarceration of African-American Americans, two direct and endless legacies of an abusive and cruel institution of slavery. But that is the core that is easy to find. The hardest manifestation of racism to deal with in America is the sum of a multitude of micro-attacks, still humiliating, painful, that illustrate how thoroughly racism has manifested in America. While mobile phone video technology and Internet live streaming capability have revealed, for example, Karen’s culture of privileged White women harassing African-American people, a situation that often escalated with those armed women ‘ r the law enforcement system, heavily biased in their favor. , against the victims of their harassment. And that’s just one definite example, while there are a million others, most of which challenge easy category. The most poignant example, which occurred only last week, involved a cemetery in Louisiana denying the burial of a deceased African-American policeman a burial plot on the basis of its own rules, which were put in place fifty years ago in response to The Civil Rights movement designated the cemetery as a White facility only. In an America where racial discrimination against the dead has survived without warning into the 21st century, Biden has a Herculean task of addressing the issue of race for the benefit of the living.



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