No, Mr. President, the soul of America isn t racist | Washington Examiner
President Joe Biden is already starting to push people too far with his constant refrains about how racist this country is.
He is overstating a very weak case, and he risks becoming like former President Jimmy Carter when Carter s so-called malaise speech had the annoying effect, in the insightful words of Vice President Walter Mondale, of urging the people to be as good as the government. The public and American culture are better than Biden says we are. He may soon see a backlash against him not just for hectoring us but for enlisting big government s might to promote and enforce his racialist agenda.
Biden did it again Tuesday evening in his remarks responding to the three-count conviction of former Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin. He indicted the entire American judicial system, without proof, by saying that accurate and just verdicts are much too rare and that Chauvin s just conviction was possible only because of a unique and extraordinary convergence of factors. He said that systemic racism is a stain on our nation s soul while asserting, without evidence, that Chauvin s murder of George Floyd was the result of such systemic racism. He cited the racism and racial disparities supposedly endemic to policing and criminal justice. And he described a Manichean battle for the would of this nation and the harsh reality that racism has long torn us apart.
His message seriously exaggerates the relevant grains of truth therein. To start with, numerous careful (non-right-wing) studies actually show only the mildest of racial disparities in the system. Yes, more black people are arrested, but that stands to reason because black people commit more crimes on average.