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If I were advising the Biden-Harris administration, I would highlight its various accomplishments over the past three-plus years. However, just like the Obama administration, President Joe Biden and his team seem content with consistently burying their light under a bushel. It incenses me when I hear folks say, “The Biden administration has done nothing for Black people.” This is categorically not true. But, then again, it is also not my job to give communications and public relations advice to this White House.
The list of Biden’s accomplishments is plentiful, and as we get closer to Election Day on Nov. 5, it would behoove the president’s 2024 reelection campaign to make a concerted effort to educate and/or refamiliarize voters, especially Black voters — and more specifically, Black male voters — on the feats the president has achieved since taking office on Jan. 20, 2021.
Narratives are flooding the airwaves that Black men are defecting from the Democratic Party in droves. It doesn’t help that influential rappers like 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube have an aspiration fetish to be associated with faux-billionaire Donald Trump. Their hagiography of the former Republican president and their refusal to see the dangers he presents for democracy more broadly make the November election even more critical for Black Americans.
President Biden is not a perfect candidate or president, but neither were the other 45 former U.S. commander-in-chiefs. Assessing the record of Joe Biden when compared to his predecessors in recent decades, none have done more to specifically address the racial wealth gap and implement long-term, inclusive policies that specifically aid Black families for years to come.
Sure, Trump worked with Congress to issue a one-time stimulus check just before the 2020 presidential…
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