President Biden declared on Tuesday that Democrats have “no option” but to change filibuster rules to pass a pair of voting bills, hours after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) warned the changes could “silence the voices of millions” of Americans.
“I believe the threat to our democracy is so grave that we must find a way to pass these voting rights bills; debate them, vote, let the majority prevail,” Biden said in a speech at Morehouse College in Atlanta. “If that bare minimum is blocked, we have no option but to change the Senate rules including getting rid of the filibuster for this.”
While Republicans have decried Democrats’ voting legislation as a federal takeover of elections procedures, however Biden compared opponents of the legislation to southern segregationists.
“Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace?” Biden said. “This is the moment to decide, to defend our elections, to defend our democracy.”
In remarks on the Senate floor earlier on Tuesday, McConnell warned of consequences should the Senate waive the filibuster to pass the voting bills.
“By breaking the Senate, this Democratic Leader wants to silence the voices of millions and millions of Americans,” McConnell said. Later the minority leader added, “a post-nuclear Senate would not be more efficient or more productive. I personally guarantee it.”
Biden called for passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which would restore a portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that required districts with a history of racial discrimination to obtain Justice Department approval before changing local election procedures.
Biden also called to pass the Freedom to Vote Act, which would set national standards for voter ID by allowing a range of documentation, set a 15-day minimum early voting period, and make it easier for state residents to sue their legislatures over redistricting issues.
via nationalreview
Biden Claims ‘No Option’ but to Suspend Filibuster for Vote-Law Overhaul
Of course biden doesn’t not remember that the southern segregationists was the democratic party. He also does not remember the fact that he is a southern segregationist himself.
Also he looked up to the very people that was in the KKK as his kind of people.
But political experts and education policy researchers say Biden, a supporter of civil rights in other arenas, did not simply compromise with segregationists — he also led the charge on an issue that kept black students away from the classrooms of white students. His legislative work against school integration advanced a more palatable version of the “separate but equal” doctrine and undermined the nation’s short-lived effort at educational equality, legislative and education history experts say.
“Biden, who I think has been good overall on civil rights, was a leader on anti-busing,” Rucker Johnson, author of the book “Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works,” said. “A leader on giving America the language to oppose it despite it being the most effective means of school integration at that time.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/joe-biden-didn-t-just-compromise-segregationists-he-fought-their-n1021626
Joe Biden has a decades-long habit of making overtly racist remarks, taking discriminatory positions and cavorting with known racists—things that would get anyone to his political right tossed out of polite society. But being on the left must make it okay.
Just a few days ago, while lamenting the difficulty in convincing many Latinos and blacks to take the COVID vaccine, he committed a series of racially charged blunders that barely registered in the corporate media’s consciousness.
Biden white-splained that Latinos in America resist vaccinations because “they’re worried that they’ll be vaccinated and deported.”
This statement makes the insane assumption that all Latinos present in this country are illegal aliens subject to expulsion. It never occurred to Biden that more than 60 million Latinos are actually American citizens, according to recent census figures.
While insulting such a sizable segment of our population, Biden actually went further. He referred to this group of people as “Latinx,” which is a term invented by woke academics who objected to gender-specific words in the Spanish language.
Just 3% of Latinos use “Latinx” to describe themselves and less than a quarter have even heard of the term, according to the Pew Research Center. Many find it to be an offensive bastardization of the Spanish language.
Biden lectured about the fears that blacks may have of the vaccine, attempting to point to historically shameful episodes when they were subjected to inhumane medical experiments.
They are used to being experimented on—the Tuskegee Airmen and others,” Biden said.
In this, he confused legendary World War II fighter pilots with a long, notorious governmental study of syphilis among black men—the Tuskegee Experiment.
In 2010, he warmly eulogized Sen. Robert Byrd, a former Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan, saying he was “one of my mentors” and that “the Senate is a lesser place for his going.”
In 2007, he referred to Barack Obama as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean.”
In 2006, he said, “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”
Way back in 1977, he said that forced busing to desegregate schools would cause his children to “grow up in a racial jungle.”
Of course, he infamously worked with segregationist senators to oppose that mandatory busing, which decades later led to the strongest moment in Kamala Harris’s campaign for president, when she blasted him as having personally impacted her as a young girl.
And over the course of his entire career, he had kind words to say about staunchly segregationist senators.
Any one of these statements or episodes would have been enough to sink the political career of any conservative in Washington, D.C., against whom tenuous accusations of racism are commonplace and occur almost daily.
But Joe Biden, who has a lifetime of them, is now president of the United States. On some days and in some ways, it must be good to be on the left.
https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/bidens-history-getting-away-racist-remarks