Was Joe Biden a Secret Racist?
Traitor Joe

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Have you heard anything about Joe Biden lately? Neither have I. Since he dropped out of the presidential race in July, Biden has been treated as a political nonentity. While he is still technically the commander-in-chief, it is not clear what, exactly, the man does. In his debate with Kamala Harris in early September, Republican nominee Donald Trump quipped that the often-befuddled Biden “doesn’t even know he’s alive.” This may not be far from the truth. All the attention is now laser-focused on the upcoming contest between the witch and the Orange Man, and poor old Sleepy Joe has been all but forgotten. Still, before the curtain closes on the Biden era, it may be worth looking at some of the positions he has taken over the years on racial issues.

Biden the Racist?

Strange as it may seem, there are some who are fond of arguing that Biden is some sort of crypto- racist. Occasionally, Trump supporters will do this as part of an attempt to appeal to non-whites by employing the worthless and unconvincing “Democrats are the real racists” trope. It would be wonderful news if Biden has secretly been “on our side” for his whole career; but it just isn’t true. No, far from being a defender of his race, Biden has spent decades working tirelessly for its dispossession.

Four pieces of “evidence” that critics like to cite as proof of Biden’s supposed “racism” are his past friendships with segregationist Southerners during the early part of his career in the Senate, his opposition to forced busing as a means of integrating public schools, his support for the 1994 Crime Bill, and his history of making awkward remarks and jokes about minority groups. Contrary to the claims of misguided Republicans, none of this proves that Biden is any sort white advocate.

Biden and the Segregationists

First, there is the matter of Biden’s relationships with segregationists. Biden, who entered the Senate in 1973, was indeed friendly with several former colleagues who supported racial segregation, including James Eastland of Mississippi. As reported in a 2019 article by Isaac Stanley-Becker in the Washington Post, while speaking at a campaign event, Biden fondly recalled that Eastland liked to call him “son” rather than “senator.” Biden mentioned his relationship with Eastland in order to tout his ability to get along with politicians with whom he disagrees. Stanley-Becker noted that this was not the first time Biden had referred to his amicable relationships with segregationists, and quoted from a 2017 speech that Biden had made on behalf of Alabama Senate candidate Doug Jones:

I’ve been around so long, I worked with James Eastland,” Biden said when he was stumping for Jones two years ago. “Even in the days when I got there, the Democratic Party still had seven or eight old-fashioned Democratic segregationists. You’d get up and you’d argue like the devil with them. Then you’d go down and have lunch or dinner together. The political system worked. We were divided on issues, but the political system worked. [1]

These “old fashioned Democratic segregationists” in several cases held a considerable deal of power in the Senate at the time because their seniority. Eastland, for instance, was the chairman of the body’s Judiciary committee when Biden was first elected. The Agricultural Commitee was chaired by another segregationist, Georgia’s Herman Tallmadge. The powerful Appropriations Committee was headed by John McClellan of Arkansas. The second highest-ranking Democrat in the Senate when Biden arrived was none other than West Virginia’s Robert Byrd, a former Klansman. It is no surprise that a young and ambitious newcomer like Biden would make an effort to be on good terms with these men. Even so, Biden was apparently quite open with his Dixiecrat colleagues about the differences between their views on race and his own.

Biden, Busing, and the “Racial Jungle”

Attempting to paint Biden as a fellow segregationist because of these past relationships is tremendously dishonest. On the other hand, when it comes to the issue of forced busing to increase racial diversity in public schools, the proponents of the “pro-white Biden” theory seemingly have a stronger argument. During a Democratic primary debate in June of 2019, Kamala Harris, his eventual running mate, challenged him about his opposition to busing. An NBC News article written in the aftermath of that debate lays out the case against Biden:

In 1975, Biden was representing a state where one of the first major urban school desegregation plans had been ordered by a court. Many white parents in the Wilmington area were angry. In response, Biden sponsored not just the bill limiting courts’ power but also an amendment to an appropriations bill that barred the federal government from withholding funding from schools that remained effectively segregated.

The amendment went beyond the busing issue, affecting school systems that effectively separated students by race whether or not they used busing. Co-sponsors included segregationist Sens. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., and Strom Thurmond, R-S.C. The amendment passed the Senate on a 50-43 vote, including majorities of both Democrats and Republicans. (Biden was not alone among northern Democrats who supported it — in that group, 14 supported the amendment and 26 opposed it, according to the Congressional Quarterly.) [2]

Yes, there were indeed a few instances where Biden worked alongside white advocates and backed measures that benefited his race. However, the reasons why Biden objected to busing need to be more closely examined. Whereas Helms, Thurmond and other Democrats may have opposed these schemes out of a genuine concern for the wellbeing of white children and a principled opposition to racial mixing, the same cannot be said about Delaware’s young senator. Ironically, Biden can be acquitted of the charge of racial loyalty partly on the basis of what may be his most notorious “racist” quote.

Six months prior to the 2020 general election, an article published on a pro-Trump website drew attention to a decades-old Biden quote about racial integration. The author of the piece, Colton McClaine, falsely alleged that “Biden claimed that racial integration would devastate his own children’s futures” and cited as proof Biden’s statement, made during a senate hearing in 1977, that “Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, that jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point.” [3] Additionally, at the top of his article, McClaine misquoted Biden as saying “I don’t want my children to grow up in a racial jungle.” Camille Caldera of USA Today observed that this article and accompanying fake quote had been shared more than a quarter-million times on Facebook and decided to set the record straight. As Caldera noted:

Just before the remark, Biden advocated for “orderly integration of society” rather than school integration via busing. “I am not just talking about education but all of society,” he said. [4]

She also brought up other important details from that hearing, which McClaine had neglected to mention:

Earlier in the hearing, Biden said he thought mandatory busing had “repercussions” in terms of the “ultimate objective of seeing that we get integrated neighborhoods, of seeing that we eventually eliminate job discrimination, of seeing that we change housing patterns, of seeing alteration of the tax structure.” [5]

Do these sound like the words of a segregationist?

An example of an honest summary of the “racial jungle” controversy by a pro-Trump outlet can be found in a July 2020 article by Harris Alic of Breitbart. Alic pointed out that:

Despite the background remaining murky, Biden’s remarks at the hearing are similar to those he expressed during an interview with a local Delaware newspaper in 1975 while discussing the issue of busing.

“The real problem with busing,” he said—after claiming it was an “asinine concept” — was that “you take people who aren’t racist, people who are good citizens, who believe in equal education and opportunity, and you stunt their children’s intellectual growth by busing them to an inferior school . . . and you’re going to fill them with hatred.” [6]

It is therefore clear that Biden was not against racial integration as such, but opposed forced busing on the grounds that it would exacerbate racial tensions and ultimately hinder the “orderly integration of society.” He feared that if the wrong tactics were employed in order to bring about integration, then race relations could deteriorate and the whole integrationist project would collapse. This condition of racial hostility, and not racial integration more broadly, appears to have been what Biden meant by the use of the phrase “racial jungle.” Once again, Biden is shown to be no friend of segregation.

Biden and the Crime Bill

Next, there is the controversy that stems from the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which then-Senator Biden helped to write. This law has been attacked by many, including Donald Trump, for resulting in harsh prison sentences for nonwhite, and especially black, convicts. Yet, those who criticize Biden on these grounds should know that there was no shortage of black politicians who backed the bill. This list of black supporters includes several current congressmen such as Jim Clyburn and former Black Panther Bobby Rush. According to Rashawn Ray and William A. Galston, two-thirds of the Congressional Black Caucus voted for the bill, and the results of 1994 Gallup poll suggested that it was more popular among black voters than among whites. [7]

Professor Michael Fortner has argued that many black politicians believed that the bill was “as an imperfect but necessary measure to combat pervasive violence in poor black urban neighborhoods” and that black activists “had a huge impact in changing the narrative around urban crime and drug addiction and pushing it in a way that validated very punitive crime policies.” [8] One of the purposes of the crime bill was to alleviate the legitimate concerns of blacks whose communities were plagued by high crime rates and crack cocaine. So, no, Biden’s role in the authorship of the bill does not prove he is a secret racist who wanted to “lock up all the blacks.”

Other Biden Comments on Race

Finally, Biden has gained a well-deserved reputation for making bizarre, semi-coherent comments about any number of subjects, and race is no exception. A 2020 article by Jonathan Jones for the vociferously pro-Republican Western Journal catalogued ten instances from Biden’s “long history of racially charged comments.” [9] Jones, who regrettably appears to have fallen for the “Democrats are the Real Racists” argument, begins by rehashing the “racial jungle” affair and concludes with a condemnation of the aforementioned 1994 Crime Bill. In his article, Jones offers readers a handful of rather underwhelming anecdotes such as a joke Biden once told about the prevalence of Indian employees in Delaware convenience stores. The most damning thing that Jones could find was an incident where Biden told a black radio host that “if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” Biden was clearly trying to imply that all blacks know that a Biden administration would serve black interests than Trump would, and that every black person knows this simply because it is so obvious. In so doing, he chose his words poorly, and came off as awkward and condescending. But if that is the best Biden’s critics can come up with, then the case against him is quite weak indeed. Certainly, several of his other quotes were also odd and ill-advised, which is typical of Biden, but none of them show that he has the slightest trace of loyalty toward his own race.

When all of this is taken into account, it becomes abundantly clear that those who claim that Biden is, or ever was, a friend to race-conscious whites are mistaken. But it is not enough to say that Biden has not been an ally to our cause. Such a characterization does not adequately describe the degree to which he has betrayed his people. Biden has been a committed enemy to the interests of his race throughout his political career. This can be demonstrated by way of a brief overview of his record as a senator and as president.

Biden’s Racial Record as a Senator

Biden’s senatorial record is full of episodes wherein he supported measures that harmed whites. Stanley-Becker noted that Biden “supported the extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and amendments to the 1968 Fair Housing Act, as well as sanctions against apartheid South Africa, among other measures.”[10] Defending freedom of association was evidently not a priority for Biden. As for South Africa, Biden not only backed sanctions, but also delivered a fiery speech on the senate floor in 1986 in which he called the Afrikaner regime “repulsive”, “repugnant” and “a stupid puppet government.” [11]

South Africa has not exactly flourished since the end of white rule, to put it lightly.

Biden also showed a clear pattern of aiding and abetting the Great Replacement as a senator. For example, he voted for Ronald Reagan’s 1986 amnesty and would have voted for another one in the form of the proposed 2007 Immigration Reform Act. [12] Yet, as pitiful as Biden’s senate career was, it pales in comparison to his time in the White House.

Biden’s Racial Record as President

On his first day in office, Biden issued an executive order with the stated purpose of “advancing racial equity” which undid a previous order enacted by Trump that banned the propagation of Critical Race Theory within federal agencies. [13] This set the tone for the remainder of his administration. Biden’s appointment of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court does not bode well for whites. Early on in her tenure, Jackson dissented from the court’s decision in Students For Fair Admissions v Harvard, which rolled back, but did not entirely ban, affirmative action in college admissions. We can expect that more opinions of a similar nature will be forthcoming from Justice Jackson.

Furthermore, Biden’s selection of the utterly grotesque Alejandro Mayorkas as Secretary of Homeland Security has been nothing short of disastrous. Together, Biden and Mayorkas have kept the southern border ajar, and an unprecedented flood of migrants have made their way through the gates. Not only that, but his administration has taken legal action to prevent the state of Texas from securing a section of its border with Mexico. Biden’s administration also expanded the CHNV parole program, which has enabled corporations and non-governmental organizations to swamp cities and towns with Haitian migrants.

Millions of strangers who do not belong here, and would not be here if it weren’t for the Biden administration’s permissive border policies, are now roaming our streets. There is no longer the pretense of “orderly integration”; the new plan is “replace white people as quickly as possible, no matter the consequences.” A healthy share of the blame for all murders, rapes, assaults, and all other crimes committed by these aliens against our people must be laid at the feet of Joseph R. Biden. As a senator, Biden warned against the creation of a “racial jungle” in Delaware. As president, he has done his very best to transform the entire country into one. Let us hope that the ensuing chaos motivates greater numbers of white Americans to reject multiracialism and embrace white independence.

Biden’s Legacy

This January, when Biden departs the White House for the final time and enters retirement, he will leave behind a long and shameful legacy of racial treachery. While there are many white politicians who have let us down, Biden is particularly loathsome. As we have seen, the damage he has done to White America is immense, and he is most deserving of a place on the list of the worst presidents in American history. It is safe to assume that centuries in the future, our descendants will not look back with pride at the presidency of Joe Biden. As for us, at least we can take heart in the knowledge that his political career is nearly over.

Goodbye, Traitor Joe, we will not miss you.

Notes

[1] Isaac Stanley-Becker, “We got things done’: Biden recalls ‘civility’ with segregationist senators”, Washington Post, June 19, 2019.

[2] Janell Ross, “Joe Biden didn’t just compromise with segregationists. He fought for their cause in schools, experts say”, NBC News, June 25, 2019.

[3] Colton McClaine, “1977: Biden Said Integrating Black Students Would Turn Schools Into ‘A Jungle… A Racial Jungle’ “, Team Trump USA, May 2020.

[4] Camille Caldera, “Fact Check: In 1977 Biden said without orderly integration, his kids would grow up in ‘racial jungle’”, USA Today, October 27, 2020.

[5] Caldera.

[6] Harris Alic, “1977: Joe Biden Worried Busing Would Lead to a Racial Jungle”, Breitbart, July 15, 2019.

[7] Rayshawn Ray and William A Galston, “Did the 1994 crime bill cause mass incarceration”, Brookings Institute, August 28, 2020.

[8] Leon Neyfakh, “Black Americans Supported the 1994 Crime Bill, Too“, Slate, February 12, 2016.

[9] Jonathan Jones, “Joe Biden Has a Long History of Racially Charged Comments, Here Are 10 of the Worst “, The Western Journal, October 21, 2020.

[10] Stanley-Becker.

[11] Oliver O’Connell, “Powerful video from 1986 resurfaces showing Biden’s passionate speech against apartheid”, The Independent, June 3, 2020.

[12] Amy Sherman, “Fact-checking an attack on Joe Biden about immigration deportation, detention votes”, July 19, 2020.

[13] Jared Taylor, “A Campaign Ad for Donald Trump”, American Renaissance, October 18, 2024.