President Biden’s message for fresh-faced African-American college grads: America is racist, and black Americans are set up to fail.
In his Sunday commencement speech at historically black Morehouse College in Atlanta, the prez vowed “to call out the poison of white supremacy,” and “to root out systemic racism.”
“It’s natural to wonder if democracy . . . actually works for you,” he told the ranks of young black men; and black Americans “have to be 10 times better than anyone else to get a fair shot.”
He also threw Israel under the bus again, explicitly calling for “an immediate ceasefire” and assuring the crowd he supports “peaceful, nonviolent protest” (a fine way to describe demonstrations that have included assaults on police and destruction of property).
The speech was divisive, defeatist and condescending — hardly the “oh, the places you’ll go!” inspiring message college grads deserve as they celebrate their accomplishments and enter adult life.
But it was also revealing: Joe is now a one-trick pony, and that trick is pandering, hard, to the far left.
Look: Biden is hemorrhaging support among black, Hispanic and young voters — but mainly among the working class, which is furious at what he’s done to the economy (bitter inflation, soaring interest rates, few new jobs except in government or health care) and the border.
Yet all he (or his handlers) can think to do is pander to the Nikole Hannah-Jones type of race-obsessed, academic, coastal elitists.
Who he wasn’t talking to in his demented diatribe was average black Americans, who are worried about paying the mortgage and putting food on the table.
Biden isn’t losing their support because he hasn’t apologized often enough for America’s supposed racism; voters of all races are tired of seeing their wallets drained by the disaster of Bidenomics.
Biden asked: “What is democracy if a trail of broken promises still [leaves] Black communities behind?”
Well, they may not love the last guy, but working-class black voters enjoyed a strong economy and a record-low unemployment rate in the Trump years; they’re not going to accept Biden’s race-talk as an adequate substitute.
The reasons black voters overwhelmingly support Democrats are deep-rooted, but enthusiasm for Biden is another matter: Per recent Washington Post-Ipsos polling, just 62% of blacks say they’re absolutely certain to vote this year — a 12-percentage-point drop from June of 2020.
In other words, however well democracy is working, more and more black Americans are doubting that Biden is working for them.
And offering them nothing but victimhood won’t turn that around.