Biden’s Morehouse Address

May 23, 2024

Joe Biden gave one of the more curious commencement speeches ever when he addressed Morehouse College’s class of 2024. I know that presidents seldom write their own speeches but Biden should fire this speech writer. The speech was insulting because it certainly could not have been intended for Morehouse’s graduates. Biden speech could have been given by a race grifter to a group of welfare dropouts telling them that their lack of achievement was due to racism, the failure of capitalism and white supremacy. Consider:

“You started college just as George Floyd was murdered and there was a reckoning on race. It’s natural to wonder if democracy you hear about actually works for you. 

“What is democracy if black men are being killed in the street? 

“What is democracy if a trail of broken promises still leave black communities behind? 

“What is democracy if you have to be 10 times better than anyone else to get a fair shot? 

“And most of all, what does it mean, as we’ve heard before, to be a black man who loves his country even if it doesn’t love him back in equal measure?” 

Biden, or his speech writer, is oblivious that every graduate is a success. Most Morehouse graduates come from nuclear families of college graduates and not households headed by single mothers. These are the children of lawyers, doctors, engineers, educators and scientists. As to having to be 
“10 times better to get a fair shot” a Morehouse man will tell you he is already 10 times better. There is a well known saying that “You can tell a Morehouse man. But you can’t tell him much.” This is a school whose alumni are a who’s who of black intelligentsia and Biden is talking about the failure of democracy? Well since he has been in office for three years, is any failure of democracy his fault?

Why didn’t he list all that he has done to further race relations? Why didn’t he talk about the appointments of people of color to high positions in his administration? Why didn’t he talk about steps taken to increase reading and math proficiency among black youth? Why didn’t he talk about how his programs will provide incentives to uplift people of all races? Is it because he has done nothing to improve the well being of minorities? If this is a failure of democracy what is he proposing as an alternative? Why instead of an uplifting speech celebrating the graduation from one of the country’s elite colleges, Biden is race baiting instead? Does he think that by pointing out the inadequacies of his administration and telling lies that he can scare black folk into voting for him? Well those that do vote for him are true yellow dog democrats in that they will vote for a yellow dog (somehow that is apt) than vote for a republican. Someone needs to tell Biden that the Georgia voting law that he lied about produced record numbers of black voters and that “racist” “anti-democratic” Georgia elected both a black senator and a Jewish one. If the Georgia law were intended to stifle the black vote, we should have more laws like it. Biden’s speech was that of an angry old man who is a habitual liar and showing signs of mental and physical decline. It was a desperate speech from a desperate politician. Biden has been a consistent failure in the economy, foreign policy, domestic policy and race relations. He said he was going to unite us. He may be succeeding in uniting us against him.