The New York Times
Black Waters wants President Biden to take a cue from candidate Biden
North Charleston, SC – J B Biden visited the Royal Missionary Baptist Church in South Carolina in late February, before the state president primary, and the Rev. Isaac J. Holt heard Jr. give a message of encouragement. “Going to win,” Holt said he told Biden privately that the political prediction would be fulfilled in the coming days. A pastor of one of Charleston’s largest black congregations, the New York Times now signed up for Holt’s Morning Newsletter, according to Biden’s plan for his forthcoming administration: “Biden is ours. And we haven’t forgotten.” Black voters have a favorable political marriage with the Democratic Party. He was at one time frustrated with the lack of systematic change given by the party’s most solid voting population and its politicians. In South Carolina, the state that helped Biden advance in the Democratic nomination and where almost all Democratic voters are black, voters complain of getting campaign promises from politicians when they are running but once elected they are not given priority. There are similar complaints among voters in cities like Milwaukee, Detroit and Philadelphia – general election campaign centers in key-swing states – who have used silence following years of presidential elections. In his words, the attention-grabbing Gerimendre, Republican-leaning congressional districts, and the black voters who helped Democrats win the White House are sometimes put on hold. Their issues are highly controversial. Their needs are too big. Biden insists this time will be different, and people like Holt are taking him at his word. In his victory speech after last month’s presidential election, Biden made special mention of black voters who rallied around him in South Carolina after people around him flop in other states for early voting. “At its lowest point, the African American community stood up for me again,” Biden said. “You always had my back, and I’m with you.” But who defines political priority for black voters, and what does it mean to take their backs? Leading black politicians, civil rights leaders, activists and many others, as well as South Carolina church leaders, urged Biden to turn his campaign around and say in all interviews that it is important to address the coronavirus epidemic. But they also raised issues that ranged from investing in small businesses and historically black colleges to colleges and universities to tackling student debt and climate change, which dominated discussions over Biden. Transition team and cabinet elections. It’s good to have a cabinet that reflects America’s ethnic diversity, they said. But he added that Biden’s legacy on the race would be judged on his readiness for a policy change, taking into account moral changes – a standard he has set for himself. “In my opinion, all he has to do is move away from tradition,” said the powerful South Carolina Democrat, a rep. James E. Cliburn said. In favor of pleasing Republicans, he said, “In the past we’ve gotten in trouble for leaving people on the stage they ran into when it came to office fees.” Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, citing Biden’s commitment during a public forum to eradicate poverty and address the concerns of the poor, said, “Stay alive until then, and there will be an ethnic class of marginalized Americans, including blacks. . His life changed. “We definitely want a cabinet that looks like America. But the important thing is that we want to see a cabinet that works for America,” Barber said. “And not just the middle class. And not just the so-called working class. But from below.” In effect, they ask President Biden to take the signal of candidate Biden. During the primary and general elections and under pressure from activists who presented Biden as a work of art from the political past, his team adopted a plan called “Lift Everywhere and Voice Is” for Black-Americans, which would try to close the black-and-white income gap. Expand, historically invest 70 70 billion in black colleges and universities, and rethink the criminal justice system and policing. Biden was chosen by the first black woman, Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris, on a big party ticket – with the campaign’s impetus – taken as a symbolic confirmation of these commitments. Former President Barack Obama, the country’s first black president, had to assure White America that he would become president of all races. But Biden repeatedly insisted that black communities would pay special attention to their administration. Black political leaders believe that the biggest obstacle to Biden’s commitment to overcoming systematic racism is his inclination towards the idea of compromise, bipartisanship and Washington Washington civilization. Biden has consistently relaxed his belief that congressional Republicans will work with his administration in due course, although some of them doubt the legitimacy of his victory, and President Donald Trump has shown no sign of easing his grip on the party base. “The bipartisanship is how the president-elect and vice-president-elect plan to work from day one,” said Ramsay Smith, a spokeswoman for Biden’s transition team. “They have made it very clear that black Americans are aware of systemic inequalities caused by generations.” To cope, it is imperative to work on all planks and join all groups to reach a consensus that does not compromise our principles or priorities. . “Some black leaders who met with Biden and Harris during the transition are disappointed by this sentiment, according to some familiar with the discussions. Biden, the leader of the Democratic Party, is left with some Democrats who believe that Republicans Reacting and slow to accept Biden’s legitimacy, Leviers urges him to consider unilateral action, such as an executive, ordering the formulation of his agenda, claiming that Washington’s horse-trading rarely prioritizes the needs of black communities. Republicans will be around. “We’ll see if that’s true, and we’ll see soon,” said Sherlyn Eiffel, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc., which met with Biden on the transition. If so, we’ll see about that very soon. That’s pretty cool to be optimistic about. But you must be fully prepared to be axed and effective. “But Biden’s vocal allies say he has the ability to reach his standards. Set yourself up, especially when it comes to racial equity and the black agenda. Depending on his willingness to watch, not to meet negotiators at midpoint, Carolina helped ensure his dominance in the state, saying Biden should learn from the mistakes made by former Democratic leaders, including Obama. He told Obama’s Supreme Court Judge Merrick B. Garland, Whose Republicans also refused to hear, for example. Republicans “lied to him and said they would allow him to the Supreme Court if he mediated.” “They never did, and they never planned to do so.” Did not make. “I told him at the time that you would be better off putting an African American woman to the Supreme Court,” he added. , She has an immediate constituency. Turn them down to them. He would have given a new definition of politics in this country, and frankly, I think Hillary Clinton would have been elected president. Rev. Joseph A. Darby Jr., a senior pastor at Charlesston’s Nichols Chapel AME Church and a former local leader. Will become a black man. “It’s helpful to have new people on the table,” Darby said. “But it’s a plus.” The stakes can’t be too high. Black people sit on health as one of the biggest policy priorities of the year: health care, criminal justice. And the reach of the crisis of climate change.Paraded by Black Americans.Coronavirus epidemic, dead, hospitalized and facing economic devastation at disproportionate rates.In Darby Congregation, both a mother and her child have died from the virus, Holt’s The congregation has not been able to convene since March, just weeks after Biden spoke from the podium as a candidate. Last week, in an interview at his church, Holt made a political prediction of his second patent: If Biden is a black man. If Thena does not keep her promises – systematic racism does not crumble. In Deed, not just words – Republicans will benefit with Black voters. He cited a modest shift toward Trump in the November election in the growing unpopular nature of some black voters and younger blacks. “The party system is not something that completely fits the black community,” Holt said. “We’re fed up with the Democrats, and we’re fed up with the two-party system.” Some members of Holt, at a gathering of social distance in the sanctuary, they had not visited in months, echoed the urgency of their pastor. Nevertheless, they expressed confidence in Biden and said that everyone voted for him in the primary and general elections, but they chose him as a call to action rather than a blank check of trust. Shakima Chatman, a 46-year-old real estate agent. “But it can establish policies and regulation.” What he hopes for: Biden was comfortable following the campaign among black voters and he showed loyalty to Obama as vice president. He worries: he favored separatists in name only. On bipartisanship, he said black people who did not support him were “not black,” and he told wealthy donors that “nothing will fundamentally change” if they were elected. For black communities, it is a must. “Policies Cleo Scott Brown said this inequality is created 66.” Policy must correct it. “This article originally appeared in The New York Times. (C) 2020 The New York Times Company
