Biden’s Appalling Address to Morehouse College

He’s at it again. President Joe Biden, who told black voters at a 2012 campaign rally that Mitt Romney and the Republican Party would “put y’all back in chains,” and whose message to undecided black voters in 2020 was “[Y]ou ain’t black” if they didn’t vote for him, went back to the well of racial division during a weekend commencement address at Morehouse College. “It’s natural to wonder if the democracy you hear about actually works for you,” the president told the crowd. “What is democracy,” he went on to ask, rhetorically, “if black men are being killed in the street?” Or “if a trail of broken promises still leaves black communities behind?” Or “if you have to be ten times better than anyone else to get a fair shot?” The idea that America is fundamentally hostile to black Americans is a pernicious lie that flouts reality anywhere you look. Ask yourself: Do the data emerging from litigation against Harvard’s and the University of North Carolina’s affirmative action programs suggest that the median black admit to those universities had grades and test scores ten times better than those of admits from other racial groups? Do the successful black professionals you...