OPINION:
In his commencement speech at Howard University, President Biden called “the poison of White supremacy” the “most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland.” He added, “And I’m not saying this because I’m at a Black HBCU. I say it wherever I go.”
Indeed, he does. Mr. Biden’s “race” lies are too numerous to catalog in an article shorter than “War and Peace.”
The list includes Mr. Biden, while speaking to an audience with a large number of Blacks, accusing 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney of wanting to “put y’all back in chains.”
Mr. Biden boasted for decades about his alleged role in the Civil Rights Movement. The New York Times wrote: “During his first bid for president, Mr. Biden wrongly said in 1987 that he marched with ’tens of thousands of others’ in the civil rights movement. Later, a spokesman for Mr. Biden clarified that he had participated in actions to ‘desegregate one restaurant and one movie theater.’ Mr. Biden himself conceded that ’I was not an activist.’”
Yet he kept saying otherwise.
In 2019, The New York Times wrote that in 1987, “more than once, advisers had gently reminded Mr. Biden of the problem with this formulation: He had not actually marched during the civil rights movement. And more than once Mr. Biden assured them he understood — and kept telling the story anyway (emphasis added).”
The Washington Examiner wrote: “At the University of Delaware, where Biden was a freshman, a group called the Student Committee Against Discrimination was taking the lead on Route 40-related demonstrations. … One of the group’s leaders, Duane Nichols, a graduate student at the time, told the Washington Examiner that he compiled the list of segregated restaurants that CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) targeted along Route 40. He said that he did not recall Biden participating in protest activities.”
Mr. Biden has repeatedly said, “I had the great honor of being arrested,” along with former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, while supposedly attempting to visit the imprisoned Nelson Mandela in apartheid South Africa. Mr. Young said it never happened.
Mr. Biden frequently says, “I was raised in the Black church.” Yet members at the church to which Mr. Biden referred said they never saw him.
Then there’s the challenge Mr. Biden made to radio host Charlamagne tha God when Mr. Biden said, “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t Black.”
Now, let’s examine Mr. Biden’s danger-of-White-supremacy assertion. According to the Anti-Defamation League, in 2022, 25 people were killed by “extremists,” and 80% were killed by “white extremists.” There were approximately 21,000 homicides in 2020. Whites, who account for about 62% of the U.S. population, committed less than half of the nation’s homicides. Blacks, at under 13% of the population, accounted for nearly 50% of homicide victims, and nearly 90% of them were killed by other Blacks. So, when it comes to the commission of homicide as their percentage of the population, Whites are underrepresented, and Blacks are overrepresented.
What about mass shootings, defined by Mother Jones as “a single attack in a public place in which four or more victims are killed”? Of mass shootings from 1982 through 2021, Whites, at about 62% of the population, committed 54.4%. Blacks, under 13% of the population, committed 17.4%. Asians, at 3.6% of the population, committed 6.6%.
What about serial killers, defined as at least two people killed in two separate instances with a cooling-off period in between? According to serialkillersinfo.com, in the decade of 2010, Whites were 30.8% of serial killers, and Blacks were 59%. In the first decade of the 2000s, Whites were 32.4% and Blacks 54.4%.
What about homicides committed by Whites against Blacks, and homicides committed by Blacks against Whites? Most homicides are same-race homicides. Recently, however, there have been an annual average of about 750 White-Black or Black-White homicides. Blacks have killed 500 Whites, and Whites have killed 250 Blacks. So, Blacks have killed twice as many Whites as the number of Blacks killed by Whites.
What about non-homicide violent crimes — attempted murder, manslaughter, rape, assault with a weapon — between Blacks and Whites? In recent years, there have been about 400,000 such crimes annually. In 85% of the cases, the perpetrator is Black and the victim is White — just 15% the other way around.
What about hate crime offenders? According to the FBI, in 2019, of the 6,406 known offenders, 52.5% Were white and 23.9% were Black. Blacks were disproportionately the victims of hate crimes, accounting for 48.5%. But Blacks were also overrepresented as perpetrators compared with their percentage, and again Whites were underrepresented.
Mr. Biden panders and lies to manipulate Blacks into seeing themselves as victims, so they vote for the party of “social justice” and “equity.” Never mind the real issues facing the Black community — fatherlessness, Black-on-Black urban crime in Democratic-run cities, and Democratic-run government schools that produce students who can neither read nor do math at grade level.
Mr. Biden’s Howard speech again demonstrates that Democrats view Blacks as children to whom the truth cannot be told. The question is: How long can they get away with it?
• Larry Elder is a Republican candidate for president of the United States in 2024. He is the author of “As Goes California: My Mission to Rescue the Golden State and Save the Nation.”
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