Joe Biden seems to have forgotten what the racists he worked with were wearing, writes zakcheneyrice
Joe Biden Photo: Sean Rayford/Getty Images In South Carolina on Monday, Joe Biden marked the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday by noting that racist power announced itself differently in the slain activist’s lifetime than it does now. Back then, in Biden’s estimation, it was embodied by bigoted police who used physical violence against protesters.
The reality is that the suit-wearing Bull Connors of today — Biden’s shorthand for the most virulent bigots granted official sanction by the state — are part of the same governing class that unleashed the actual Bull Connor on civil-rights protesters in 1963. As has long been the case: America’s racist caste system was a manifestation of the early colonists’ efforts to consolidate wealth and stave off underclass insurrection.
Among the fruits of this partnership was successful opposition to school integration in the 1970s, which featured another Biden hallmark: bipartisan coalition-building toward racist outcomes. His main partner against busing — specifically, amending an education bill to withhold federal funds from districts that used race as a criterion when assigning students or teachers to schools — was the segregationist North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms. It wouldn’t be the last alliance of its kind.
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