Joe Biden has launched one of his most scathing attacks yet on Donald Trump’s record of racism, suggesting that the former US president would have acted differently to the January 6 2021 insurrection if was led by Black people.

The remarks, at a dinner hosted by a civil rights organisation in a critical swing state, pointed to an intensifying battle between Biden and Trump for African American voters ahead of November’s presidential election.

“Let me ask you,” Biden said during an address to an NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) dinner in Detroit. “What do you think he would have done on January 6 if Black Americans had stormed the Capitol?”

There was a collective gasp and murmur in the cavernous convention centre, where an estimated 5,000 guests had gathered. The president insisted: “No, I’m serious. What do you think? I can only imagine.”

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    That’s your decision.

    Don’t be surprised when the people that Joe Biden’s second term requires don’t vote for him because he supported the wholesale slaughter of their families.

    One person is responsible for that decision.

    Joe Biden.

    If you hate Trump, blame the person most responsible for his reelection.

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      It’s funny, every time I talk to someone like you who is explaining why not to vote for Biden and I ask them who I should vote for, they don’t give me a straight answer.

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        I’m not explaining why not to vote for Biden.

        Why do you think I’m doing that? Have you read anything I wrote, or are you just seeing words that you filter as ‘anti Biden’ and give a canned response?

        I’m literally responding to someone calling Palestinian Americans and Muslim Americans stupid because they, as a bloc, don’t want to vote for the man that chose not to stop the slaughter of their families.

        Vote for whomever you want.

        Don’t scapegoat the people whose families were slaughtered in an ongoing genocide.

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          Someone needs to beat this into your skull, in the current us voting system not voting for Biden is the same as voting for Trump.

          Which one do you want to win? Neither are great, but Trump will lead to the complete annihilation of Palestinians in Gaza.

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            Someone needs to beat into your skull some reading comprehension.

            Nothing you’ve said has any bearing on what I said.

            You’re arguing in an empty room against yourself.

            Read better.

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            Whomever you want. Just don’t blame the people personally affected by Biden decision to back a genocide when he loses.

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        6 months ago

        I’d be offended if this was from someone that had even the slight ability to comprehend what they read.