Biden failed the black community

Steve Cortes:

As part of his masquerade as a newfound economic populist, Joe Biden recently delivered a speech on economic advancement for members of racial and ethnic minorities. But Biden faces a material problem: His lofty rhetoric in no way aligns with his disastrous actual record on providing progress.

To be specific, after spending nearly a half-century in the Washington swamp, including two terms as vice president, the only “accomplishments” in Biden’s record are his exportation of American jobs overseas, his widening of the economic gap between white and minority households, and his deepening of racial divides in public sentiment.

Regarding the hollowing of America’s industrial base prior to President Trump’s ascent, perhaps no figure in Washington worked harder to assist the Davos crowd, multinational corporations, and multilateral organizations in abusing the prerogatives of American workers. After then-Sen. Biden strenuously advocated for the inclusion of Communist China in the World Trade Organization on highly favorable terms to Beijing in 2001, over the next dozen years, the United States lost 3.2 million jobs to China, 2.4 million of them in manufacturing, according to an Economic Policy Institute study. Many of these manufacturing jobs had provided upward mobility for minorities in urban areas.

Speaking to this very issue, John Angelos, the COO of the Baltimore Orioles, remarked about his city’s unrest after the death of Freddie Gray and lamented: “The past four-decade period during which an American political elite have shipped middle-class and working-class jobs away from Baltimore and cities and towns around the U.S. to third-world dictatorships like China, and others plunged tens of millions of good, hard-working Americans into economic devastation.” Biden bears enormous blame for that very economic devastation to our working-class communities.

Once elevated to the vice presidency, Biden’s record on economic progress for minorities continued to disappoint, producing a yearslong widening of the financial wealth disparity between white households and minority ones.

According to Federal Reserve data, during Biden’s two terms, median black households lost a staggering 30% of their net worth. Though part of that loss resulted from the economic calamity of the 2008-09 credit crisis, the wider disparity between white and black households persisted all the way through the end of the second term, as minorities, and most wage earners, struggled during the sluggish Obama-Biden recovery. In fact, during Biden's vice presidency, only the top 10% of earners saw their household net worth increase. The bottom 90% of strivers, the forgotten men and women, all lost wealth. In stark contrast to the corporate media creation of “Lunch Bucket Joe,” the real record of Biden exposes a committed globalist who, when in power, exacerbated economic inequality in our land.

The chasm between Biden’s rhetoric and his record also belies his efforts to appear as a racial healer. In anything, public sentiment surveys show that his policies and approach set back the cause of racial harmony in our society. At the beginning of Biden’s vice presidency, fully 66% of people in the U.S. regarded race relations as generally good, per New York Times/CBS polling. By the end of Biden’s tenure in 2016, that sentiment had totally flipped, with 69% of people assessing race as mostly bad. Moreover, few of Biden’s cheerleaders in corporate media want to report the reality, for instance, that the Black Lives Matter movement was born when he served in the White House.
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This could explain why Trump is picking up support from blacks and is showcasing that support at the Republican convention.  The Kentucky AG, who is black, confronted Biden on his record and his racists' comments of late.