Joe
Biden as a Stealthy Bigot
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at Strategic
Culture
The New York
Times Sunday Magazine on July 5th headlined its cover-story “America’s Enduring Caste System” and presented Isabel Wilkerson’s masterful, even
profound, 12,000-word history of America’s racial caste system. She also
presented it in the broader historical context. She said: “Throughout human
history, three caste systems have stood out. The lingering, millenniums-long
caste system of India. The tragically accelerated, chilling and officially
vanquished caste system of Nazi Germany. And the shape-shifting, unspoken,
race-based caste pyramid in the United States.”
In 1977, Delaware’s
two U.S. Senators together helped to lead what has since been the extension of
America’s race-based caste system into the post-1954, post Brown-v.-Board-of-Education, era.
Here is how that “shape-shifting” was done:
On Friday, July 22nd
of 1977, a bill was being considered in the U.S. Senate regarding how the U.S.
Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 civil-rights (anti-racist) ruling, Brown
v. Board of Education, would finally become embodied and carried out in
specific U.S. legislation. This bill was being proposed by all three of
Delaware’s members of Congress, and was the most vociferously advocated by the
then-young-and-rising Senator Joe Biden. The bill was actually written by
Senator Biden’s own staff, though he was only the state’s junior Senator, not
its senior one, and the name of the state’s senior Senator was therefore
mentioned the first among the bill’s two introducing co-sponsors.
It was one of
Biden’s earliest prominent initiatives in the U.S. Senate. He was introducing
it with the other Delaware U.S. Senator, who was the Republican William Roth.
This bill, the “Roth” bill, S.1651, would have allowed unconstitutional
segregation of public schools to continue in any cases where the courts
attribute it to the workings of the free market instead of to a law that had
been passed by the particular state. In other words: to the extent that racial
segregation in the U.S. is ‘natural’, it must be allowed to continue, at least
as regards taxpayer-funded K-12 education is concerned. Biden advocated this.
The goal of Biden and the other white racists in the U.S. Congress at that time
was to take the racial-equality issue away from the courts, and into the laws,
so as to, essentially, nullify Brown v. Board of Education, the
landmark ruling in favor of racial equality of rights. Biden was a leader in
that movement — against racial equality, for continuation of White-supremacy.
At the opening of
Biden’s presentation, he asserted:
“The
average citizen, and finally his representatives in Congress, have come to the
conclusion that the courts have gone too far in education cases. A consensus is
emerging in the Nation in my opinion and in the Congress, I hope, that the
courts have stretched the 14th amendment beyond its intended limits in
requiring busing of schoolchildren to achieve racial balance.” He made clear that the problem here was “interpreting
the ‘equal protection’ clause of the 14th amendment, especially in the field of
education.” Equal protection of the laws regarding all races was the issue
at stake.
The 1954 Supreme
Court had left to the nation’s legislators the determination of how their
ruling, which was against continuation of White-supremacy, would be carried
out.
Delaware (as Biden’s
staff wrote this bill) tried to introduce into American law the idea of
unconstitutionally allowing unequal opportunity to persist so long as it is
only ‘natural’, because Delaware was the only state in the entire nation that
had a large percentage black population but that had not been
in the southern confederacy — not been a slave state, in which
anti-Black discrimination wasn’t merely cultural but also legally
enforced. In other words: the Roth-Biden bill was specifically designed so
as to allow Delaware to continue being racially segregated even while U.S.
courts would be enforcing desegregation orders against the states of Old Dixie,
the former slave-states. (This would also be a way to free Delaware from any
court decisions that might be forthcoming against Old Dixie states that
had de jure and not only de facto segregation.
It could make Delaware the libertarian haven for bigots, just as it already had
become the libertarian haven for corporations and for investors. Delaware’s
controlling family, the DuPonts, had been leaders in the libertarian movement
going all the way back to their origin in France as having been the first
libertarian publisher for the earliest pro-laissez-faire economists,
the physiocrats, starting in the 1760s, supporting the French King against the
increasing movement to end the monarchy and establish rule by the public,
democracy — which they despised. Physiocrats also opposed increasing tariffs
and all other ‘artificial’ measures, which interfered with the ‘natural order.’
Delaware’s three members of Congress, as was customary, were libertarians —
supporters of unlimited freedom for the wealthiest citizens.)
Joe Biden and
William Roth co-invented the system of racism that now exists in America, but
they were hardly unique, at the time. They were leaders, but not unique, in any
way.
There were
also many other white-racist bills in Congress at that time (the
95th Congress, in 1977&78). One of the earliest of these bills was by
Republican Rep. Jack Kemp from N.Y., on 24 March 1977, “A bill to transfer from
Federal to State courts jurisdiction to enter decrees requiring the
transportation of students or teachers to carry out a plan of racial
desegregation.” Then came S.1651, which was introduced on 9 June 1977 and was
titled “A bill to insure equal protection of the laws as guaranteed by the
fifth or 14th amendments to the Constitution of the United States.” Then came
the House version of S.1651, which was H.R.8644 and also H.R. 8645, both of
which used almost exactly the same title as the Senate version and were
introduced on 29 July 1977, by Delaware’s lone member of the U.S. House, the
Republican Thomas B. Evans, who was trying to appeal to the white majority of
his state, as were both of the state’s U.S. Senators, Biden and Roth. Then, on
4 August 1977 came from South Carolina Republican Senator Jesse Helms S.2017,
“The Freedom of Choice in Education Act.” On the same day, the Maryland
Republican Marjorie Holt introduced in the House H.R.932, “The Neighborhood
School Act.” There also were dozens of other bills and Joint Resolutions that
were proposed, having titles such as “A bill to amend title IV of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit federally ordered assignment of teachers or
students on racial and other similar grounds,” and “Joint resolution proposing
an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to freedom from
forced assignment to schools or jobs because of race, creed, or color” and
“Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United
States to prohibit compelling attendance in schools other than the one nearest
the residence” and “Student Transportation Moratorium Act” and “A bill to
extinguish Federal court jurisdiction over school attendance.” None were titled
honestly, such as “A Bill to Preserve White Supremacy.” But Delaware was
unsurpassed in pushing for that general objective — continued White-supremacy
(so long as it remains ‘natural’).
This was a
widespread objective because investors found it to be profitable. It was a very
libertarian thing to do. (Libertarianism is one-dollar-one-vote, not
one-person-one-vote. Those congress-members supported that — not democracy.)
For example, Donald
Trump’s father was a major NYC real-estate investor, and he had been caught
marching with the KKK because as a real estate tycoon in NYC he was able to
charge higher prices for his properties if they were in neighborhoods that still
had no Blacks — he was profiting from the pervasive bigotry of at least middle
and upper income Whites (such as himself and his friends), who would generally
pay a premium in order not to have Blacks living in their neighborhoods. Donald
Trump revered his father and inherited his business and continued his practices
and viewpoints. So, after the overtly bigoted Party switched
gradually away from being the Democrats before 1930, to being the Republicans
after 1970, Donald Trump himself increasingly became a Republican, so that he
wouldn’t need to hide his racism as much as politicians such as Joe Biden did
and still do. Trump as a Republican could be more direct and public, freer, in
his White bigotry. In other words: Joe Biden is Donald Trump in blackface — he
is Democratic Party billionaires’ candidate (not Republican billionaires’
candidate) to win the votes of black voters, keep Blacks down. Here is evidence
of this:
At page 256 of the
pdf, which is page 252 of the printed document, in the Senate testimony
regarding S.1651, Biden speaks against busing as being the proposed solution to
the problem of segregated schools:
Sen. Biden: “You
say I am throwing the brick. I am not as good at analogies and homilies as all
of you [proponents of nationally mandated busing of students in order
to advance equal opportunities for Blacks and Whites] are, but I think
pushing busing in a way in which it goes beyond the constitutional mandates is
like throwing a bus through the civil rights window. I think it has
repercussions that are extensive 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.”
Mr. Jack Greenberg,
Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund: “Clearly,
the purpose of the [Roth-Biden co-sponsored S. 1651] bill must
be something else. I believe it is to enact an unconstitutional set of
technical obstacles whose sole purpose is to interfere with and delay the
courts in their work in school segregation cases, and school desegregation
cases alone.”
Greenberg
continues: “I conclude that S. 1651 has as its intended purpose and
effect to dishearten those who have had to go to court as a last resort to
vindicate their right to equal justice under law denied them in the public
schools of their communities.”
Arthur S. Flemming,
Chair, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (testifying against S. 1651), cites in
order to attack:
“Section
1 of S. 1651 provides:
‘Section
1 … No court of the United States shall order … the transportation of any
student … unless the court determines that a discriminatory purpose in
education was a principal motivating factor in the constitutional violation for
which such transportation is proposed as a remedy.’”
Although Roth was
the senior Senator and therefore was the lead of the two who were named as its
initial two sponsors, Biden actually wrote
the bill himself (actually,
his staff did), and he also led the advocacy for it, not only
in the Senate but in the Senate Judiciary Committee, to which he successfully
led it to be approved; and he opened there
by saying:
“The
Committee on the Judiciary, to which the bill (S.1651) to insure equal
protection of the laws as guaranteed by the fifth or fourteenth amendments to
the Constitution of the United States, having been considered the same [which is meaningless: he actually meant
“having considered the same,” not “having been considered the same,” but, since
he’s too stupid to understand a lengthy sentence that had been drafted for him,
he goofed, and added “been”; he was always actually “sleepy Joe,” much as Trump
has actually always been a “clown,” though both have been brothers under the
skin], reports favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend the
bill do pass.”
However, the
minority on that Committee published a dissent, which stated:
“S.1651
is entitled a bill ‘[t]o insure equal protection of the laws as guaranteed by
the fifth or fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States.’
Curiously, no violation of the Equal Protection Clause is made actionable by
this bill. No court is provided with jurisdiction over such violations. No new
remedy is created. There is literally no discriminatory act, no matter how
blatant, which could be inflicted on any man, woman or child by a Federal,
State, or local official which this bill prevents, deters, punishes, or
redresses. The purpose of S.1651, therefore, surely cannot be to insure equal
protection of the laws.”
That was signed as
the lengthy “Minority Views of Messrs. Abourezk, Bayh, Culver, and Kennedy,” by
those four Senators (led by Ted Kennedy), who were alleging there that Joe
Biden was a fake, a fraud.
As I have previously
documented extensively, Joe Biden is profoundly
corrupt, and — which might
be even worse — he won his
Presidential nomination by the Democratic Party by means of cheating, lying about his past, and, especially, by his repeatedly lying
to Black voters and citing as having been his colleagues in the sit-ins and
other peaceful actions by civil rights leaders (there actually were none that
he participated in), only civil rights leaders who had recently died
and who thus were not available to respond by saying things such as
“This man is lying about himself — I never worked with him.” Biden did this while campaigning for Black votes
against Bernie Sanders, who actually had been shown in
a photograph that was published in the early 1960s in the Chicago Tribune, being
arrested for participating in an anti-segregation demonstration against the
profoundly racist, anti-Black, Mayor of Chicago, the Democrat, Richard J.
Daley. Why Sanders silently allowed Biden to get away with this has never been
explained. Anyway, America’s black voters enormously preferred, and gave a
crushing victory to, the bigot, Biden, and thus effectively ended the
till-then-successful campaign of the anti-bigot, Sanders. A flood of
billionaires’ cash into the Biden campaign right before the South Carolina
primary on 29 February 2020 convinced almost all Blacks that Biden represented
their interests. But Sanders was hardly alone in his silence: there were also
others who knew that Biden is a psychopath and kept quiet about it.
So, Biden, who was
one of the leading White-supremacists in the U.S. Senate, ended up successfully
pretending to have been instead a campaigner for civil rights and won his
nomination by combining the donations from 66 American
billionaires (a larger number of them than donated to any of the other
Democratic candidates —
and Sanders was the only candidate to have received no money from any
billionaire) with the votes by the overwhelming majority of black voters, who
constituted the majority of Democratic voters in the states of Old Dixie, and
thus handed Biden the Democratic nomination, on February 29th and Super
Tuesday.
The chief difference
between Donald Trump and Joe Biden might be that Trump never even tried to
paint his face black. (One example of this “paint” was at 17:29 in the video that showed Biden addressing Blacks on 22 May
2020, where he told them: “If you’ve got a problem figuring
out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”)
This is not to argue
for Donald Trump. It is instead to add yet further to my description of the way American politics
actually functions.
To conclude here:
Kenneth L. Karst, one of
America’s leading professors of Constitutional law, wrote the entry on “School
Busing”, at encyclopedia
dot com, in 1986, and stated there (which still remains true):
“Sadly,
it is realistic to assume the continuation of urban residential segregation,
which has diminished only slightly since 1940, despite nearly half a century of
civil rights litigation and legislation. (Even the migration of increasing
numbers of middle-class black families to the suburbs has not significantly
diminished residential segregation.) Given that assumption, the nation must
choose between accepting racially separate schools and using school busing to
achieve integration. The first choice will seem to many citizens a betrayal of
the promise of Brown. The second choice faces opposition strong enough to
threaten not only the nation's historic commitment to public education but also
its commitment to obedience to law.”
The only change is
that that “nearly half a century” in 1986 is now 34 years more (and still no
change — despite what courts have ruled).
People such as Joe
Biden and Donald Trump are the reason why the Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling
in Brown v. Board of Education is still awaiting laws that
would mandate it, and enforcement that would impose it. The resistance always
wins, because it comes from America’s billionaires, who fund politicians’
careers. Pumping bigotry is profitable. This is natural. But, often, what is
natural is bad, not good. Government imposing those natural things is bad, not
good. And this is the type of Government that both Biden and Trump represent.
It is the billionaires’ Government.
—————
Investigative
historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not
Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and
of CHRIST’S
VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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