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Georgia State Rep. Vernon Jones (D) penned
an opinion piece
slamming former Vice President Joe Biden for failing to stand up to protect the
black community. According to Jones, President Donald Trump has done more for
the black community than any other Washington politician, all while Biden hides
in his basement.
In particular, Jones takes issue
with the left's calls to "defund the police," which they say is in
response to the murder of George Floyd.
As the former Chief Executive
Officer of DeKalb County, Georgia, I’ve had to manage one of the largest police
departments in the state. I’ve had the experience of dealing with police
shootings and comforting the families of victims. But at the same time, I’ve
also had the experience of losing two black police officers. I’ve had to
comfort their families in the middle of the night and console their young
children. I know firsthand when others are running away from chaos, police
officers are running into the fight to protect and serve.
President Trump was sickened by the
death of George Floyd and fully committed to ensuring that he will not have
died in vain. The president has taken a commonsense approach to heal our nation.
President Trump made clear that he will protect all Americans, serve as an ally
to peaceful protesters and always uphold law and order.
Jones applauded President Trump's
decision to sign an executive order on police reform. The EO created a national
database of police misconduct. This prevents officers from bouncing between
police departments when they're fired for excessive force or other related
issues. The order also pushes grants from the Department of Justice to local
police departments to increase training.
Where were Joe Biden and the
previous administration for 8 years in the White House on this issue? I’ll tell
you. They were absent in unifying this country.
The black unemployment rate under
Biden and the Obama administration averaged a horrific 12.8 percent. The number
of black Americans in poverty barely fell during the Obama administration,
going down by just 145,000 over eight years.
By comparison, more than double that
number – 350,000 black Americans – were lifted out of poverty during just the
first two years of the Trump administration.
The Georgia representative reminded
Americans that for 36 years, Joe Biden pushed major crime bills. Now that those
bills are coming under fire, he's attempting to sweep them under the rug.
Don’t take my word for it, take
then-Senator Joe Biden’s own words for it. “The truth is, every major crime
bill since 1976 that’s come out of this Congress, every minor crime bill, has
had the name of the Democratic senator from the State of Delaware: Joe Biden.”
Now that Biden is running for president in a woke Democratic Party in 2020,
he’s attempting to sweep his racist legacy under the rug. We can’t let him.
Joe Biden is directly responsible
for the mass incarceration policies of the 1980s and 1990s, which decimated the
black community. Biden authored the 1994 crime bill which imposed mandatory
minimum sentences, disproportionately putting hundreds of thousands of young
black men in prison.
Even though Jones is black and a
Democrat, he refuses to vote for the former vice president.
