The Divider In Chief

Joe Biden doesn’t seem to like America all that much. The man who claimed he wanted to unite the country just gave a speech that did nothing but trash the country and inflame racial tensions.

Biden gave the commencement speech yesterday at Morehouse College, a historically black college located in Atlanta, Georgia. It has a long list of distinguished alumni that includes congressmen and cabinet secretaries, as well as notable figures like Herman Cain, Samuel L. Jackson, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Biden could have delivered an inspirational address that pointed to the success of any of those men. He could have extolled Reverend King’s dream of a country united around the promise of America and Judeo-Christian values.

But he didn’t do that. He used this historic venue to give an angry and divisive speech that attacked America. He repeated the lie of the left that America is “systemically racist,” saying:

“You started college just as George Floyd was murdered, and there was a reckoning on race. It’s natural to wonder if the ‘democracy’ you hear about actually works for you. What is democracy? That Black men are being killed in the street.”

He took an isolated incident that had nothing to do with race and exploited it to attack America and fan the flames of racial discord. That is not uniting the country. That is dividing the country.

Biden also lied about Georgia’s election integrity laws. Biden said, “Today in Georgia, they won’t allow water to be available to you while you wait in line to vote in an election. What in the hell is that all about?”

That is totally false. A federal judge upheld the provision of the Georgia law that bans all forms of campaigning or attempts to influence voters, including providing food and drink, within 150 feet of a polling location in order to prevent any last-minute “vote buying.”

The law also permits election officials to provide “self-service water from an unattended receptacle to [any voter] waiting in line to vote.” And no one is prohibited from bringing their own water while they wait in line.