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Come on Black Folks, Save My Bacon!

By Lafe Tolliver, Esq
Guest Column

     Well it is on. Joe Biden got his hiney thoroughly kicked in the New Hampshire primary. He came in fourth and in a state that he was expected to, at least, decently place.

     You know, O’Joe ain’t what he used to be. Back in the halcyon days of being Obama’s sidekick for eight years, it seemed that Joe Biden had it made in the shade!

     Why, even Joe thought he had it good and probably started thinking how he could turn this warm, fuzzy relationship into a possible political run for the White House.
 



Lafe Tolliver, Esq

     I mean, after all, it makes political cents to conjure that if the Democratic voter loved Barack Obama, surely some of that love would transfer to Joe like electricity from the pole switch to the light.

     Wouldn’t it? So Joe sorta laid back and watched the earlier posturings of the other Democratic candidates do their dance moves trying to impress the voters and then he would make his move.

     Why the copious confidence that Joe displayed? What was the source of his inside straight or his “trump” card?

What did Joe count on to be his rocket fuel to the White House?

You know! It was the African-American voter! Yes, it was people of color who would lay down their coats in the muddy streets so that Joe could walk over the political puddles and get to the prize, the White House.

    Now Joe thought that if you carried water for Barack Obama for eight years and you, now and then, visited a black church and sang the Black National Anthem while holding hands with older black women and the pastor, that life was good!

    But something happened on the way to his presumed coronation as the Democratic nominee for the White House.

Black folks didn’t stay in their political place. They, like the sophisticated voters they are, surveyed the crowded field of candidates and watched the debates and suddenly, like water dripping from a leaky pipe, Joe ripped his pants.

     Joe, or someone in his campaign, put out the word that the black voter in South Carolina and the Latino voter in Nevada were “his” firewall.

     They were his backup, his guard, his people, his folks, his soldiers and that they were there for the duration.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen!

     The firewall is stressed out and is showing some signs of fatigue and has a little fissure here and a little crack there.

     Recent polls indicate that the firewall can be breached and that Joe’s monolithic wall of black faces is beginning to show evidence of giving way to the siren call of the late comer and gazillionaire, Mike Bloomberg.

     Now, Mike has his own cross to carry regarding the horrendous policy of stop and frisk that he stoutly supported (and so did Donald Trump!)and the disastrous effects it had on the lives of so many young black and Latino lives in the Bronx and in Brooklyn.

     It is only now that Mike Bloomberg issued a tepid “apology” for his vile actions against people of color done under the guise of crime control.

     Again, it just goes to show you that black people are always expendable at the hands of politicians. When they want to rant and rave against black people, they do so and do not worry about suffering any consequences.

     When they want to woo and curry the favor of black folks, they do so with an agenda in mind and that is to profit off the loyalty of the black Democratic voter who seemingly takes the guffaw and political abuse because, who is there to turn to?

     Black people make up the most loyal bloc of the Democratic Party and especially so, the black woman!

     But, when black people give the two cents out of their pockets and even scrap together the lint in those pockets to see that a Democratic candidate wins, what is their thanks?

     Slim to none and the “none” was already skinny!

I know…I know…all the current crop of white candidates have racial skeletons in their closets so it comes down to who dislikes the black voter the least?

     Imagine the scenario if the front runner on the Democratic ticket was approached and told that if she or he wants a huge black turnout that it will cost the following political plums: (1) four cabinet seats, (2) two Supreme Court picks, (3)

fifty federal court judgeships and (4) twenty billion dollars in financial support to the HBCU schools (historically black colleges and universities) (6) comprehensive prison reform and (6) a financial aid package to African countries.

     Why not? The black voting block plays itself short when it comes to flexing its massive muscles, so you might as well sit at the table and demand to eat from all the pots!

Contact Lafe Tolliver at tolliver@juno.com

 

 
   
   


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