Joe's speech to base omits black lives

[Valletta]

The article quotes Representative Cori Bush:

“With all due respect, Mr. President. You didn’t mention saving Black lives once in this speech,” Bush tweeted. “All our country has done is given more funding to police. The result? 2021 set a record for fatal police shootings."

Rep. Cori Bush to Biden: 'You didn't mention saving Black lives once in this speech'

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Biden mentioning Black lives in a March 2022 speech would have saved lives in 2021?

 

[Tanj]

SOTU is a "speech to the base" now?

Excellent.

 

[BobRyan]

The article quotes Representative Cori Bush:

“With all due respect, Mr. President. You didn’t mention saving Black lives once in this speech,” Bush tweeted. “All our country has done is given more funding to police. The result? 2021 set a record for fatal police shootings."

Rep. Cori Bush to Biden: 'You didn't mention saving Black lives once in this speech'

He could start by saving black lives from abortion.

Black Abortion Statistics - Right to Life of Michigan

"More than crime. More than accidents. More than cancer, heart disease and AIDS. Abortion has taken more Black American lives than every other cause of death combined since 1973. In the United States, the abortion rate for Black women is more than 3 times that of White women. On average, more than 800 Black babies are aborted every day in our country. This tragedy continues..."​

 

[BobRyan]

The result? 2021 set a record for fatal police shootings."

Rep. Cori Bush to Biden: 'You didn't mention saving Black lives once in this speech'

Good thing that badness mentioned above did not rise to the level of G. Floyd overdosing on fentanyl (which supresses breathing) while being arrested, and being restrained improperly. I hate to even think of those things happening to someone at the same time.

 

[bekkilyn]

I wonder why there is no focus on how many black lives police officers have saved? Or the fact that many black people in many communities throughout the U.S. do not want and have never wanted the police to be defunded/abolished?

What about the fact that a black person is vastly more at risk of being killed by another black person than by a white police officer? This fact is completely ignored by the left. Don't any of those black lives matter, or do they somehow not count when those deaths can't promote the narrative that white police officers are compelled by racism to regularly mow down black people in the street?

When I heard some of these statements in Biden's speech, I was wondering when the Democrats would start criticizing him over it and figured it wouldn't take long.

When it comes to Democrats and black lives though, it seems that black lives really only start mattering in some way when there is an upcoming election, and that's not until 2024 when it comes to Biden and then I'm sure it will be all over the campaign speeches should he decide to run again, at least so I'm predicting.

 

[muichimotsu]

He could start by saving black lives from abortion.

Black Abortion Statistics - Right to Life of Michigan

"More than crime. More than accidents. More than cancer, heart disease and AIDS. Abortion has taken more Black American lives than every other cause of death combined since 1973. In the United States, the abortion rate for Black women is more than 3 times that of White women. On average, more than 800 Black babies are aborted every day in our country. This tragedy continues..."​

Oh hi non sequitur, it's been a bit since I've seen this chestnut, as if claims that PP is engaging in genocide without just invoking the Nazi overtones.

 

[muichimotsu]

I wonder why there is no focus on how many black lives police officers have saved? Or the fact that many black people in many communities throughout the U.S. do not want and have never wanted the police to be defunded/abolished?

What about the fact that a black person is vastly more at risk of being killed by another black person than by a white police officer? This fact is completely ignored by the left. Don't any of those black lives matter, or do they somehow not count when those deaths can't promote the narrative that white police officers are compelled by racism to regularly mow down black people in the street?

When I heard some of these statements in Biden's speech, I was wondering when the Democrats would start criticizing him over it and figured it wouldn't take long.

When it comes to Democrats and black lives though, it seems that black lives really only start mattering in some way when there is an upcoming election, and that's not until 2024 when it comes to Biden and then I'm sure it will be all over the campaign speeches should he decide to run again, at least so I'm predicting.

Pretty sure defund is not synonymous with abolish. I've thought demilitarize might work better to convey the idea that they don't need the weapons they have sometimes, because they're not all SWAT teams that are sent for specific situations

The problem is manifold, even if we magically got police reform as is desired so that issue doesn't happen, it doesn't mean systemic racism just falls like a house of cards

 

[muichimotsu]

Good thing that badness mentioned above did not rise to the level of G. Floyd overdosing on fentanyl (which supresses breathing) while being arrested, and being restrained improperly. I hate to even think of those things happening to someone at the same time.

Philando Castile might want to discuss the issue with how black people are characterized as criminal even when they cooperate with the police. Floyd was apprehended based on a counterfeit $20 bill, is it worth it he was treated like an animal?

 

[muichimotsu]

Biden mentioning Black lives in a March 2022 speech would have saved lives in 2021?

Pretty sure the goal is reducing that number, not preventing deaths that already happened. Policy looks forward, not backward, unless we're considering policy change.

 

[KCfromNC]

Biden mentioning Black lives in a March 2022 speech would have saved lives in 2021?

Reasonable posts would assume that Biden has full access to the Obama time machine.

 

[durangodawood]

Bidens people know how some of the American "middle" are vulnerable to the right wing's culture wars nonsense. So certain button pushing is avoided. Unfortunate, but thats politics.

 

[lismore]

“With all due respect, Mr. President. You didn’t mention saving Black lives once in this speech,'

Why would he mention BLM, it's not election time.