New Article: “Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It”: Charlamagne Tha God and Joe Biden Go Viral
David Shasha
“Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It”: Charlamagne Tha God and Joe Biden Go Viral
I have been thinking a lot about what to say on the Hip-Hop Howard Stern and his interview with the only chance we have of getting Trump out of the White House:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/22/politics/biden-charlamagne-tha-god-you-aint-black/index.html
Unsurprisingly, the Lysol machine is already doing an ad-buy with the clip:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/22/trump-campaign-ad-blitz-breakfast-club-275137
And the Biden apology is dismissed!
We should say that being the African-American Howard Stern is not at all a good thing:
But let it also be said that Tha God and I have something in common – we both wanted Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee:
https://seculartalk.net/2019/07/16/charlamagne-tha-god-endorses-kamala-harris-for-president/
He has unfortunately been very accommodating when it comes to the odious YEEZUS:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tanyachen/charlamagne-tha-god-profile-kanye-west-mental-health
But he has not been very accommodating when it comes to old white guys:
Or to old white women:
I tried to find something he said on Barack Obama to get a sense of where he is, but all I could find was this somewhat troubling equivocation:
https://news.yahoo.com/charlamagne-tha-god-obama-trump-blame-dividing-america-131217457.html
I do not know much about the Hip-Hop entrepreneur-provocateur, but do recall seeing a large banner at the 5th Avenue/Rockefeller Center Barnes and Noble a few years ago promoting his book event:
“Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It” is very Hip-Hop A$AP garbage, which of course does not change the fact that there is definitely a huge problem with Black people and the Democratic Party that is perfectly exemplified by Joe Biden:
https://www.theroot.com/nearly-1-in-3-young-black-people-say-the-democratic-par-1836883798
That being said, Biden was elevated to the nomination by Black Southern voters:
https://www.businessinsider.com/black-voters-carry-joe-biden-to-massive-super-tuesday-victory-2020-3
Indeed, Black voters did not want Senator Harris:
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/04/kamala-harris-black-voters-2020-075651
So, it was a choice between Bernie the Red and Biden.
And now we are where we are.
It is certainly fine for Tha God to put Biden’s feet to the fire.
And Biden needs to man up and understand what he is doing. Once he accepted the invitation to be on that
show, he should have done the necessary research to prepare for the interview. Winging it will not do at this very critical
point in time.
And it would be a great help if he could finally name his VP running mate, and present his cabinet choices:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/opinion/biden-vice-president-cabinet.html
It appears that there are those who believe that would be risky:
https://theconversation.com/for-biden-naming-cabinet-before-election-would-be-a-big-risk-137741
Given Biden’s almost complete lack of mass public exposure these days, the risk would be to stay pat and do nothing, as Lysol’s approval rating remains over 40%:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
Biden needs to speak out and present his plan for the country, and not take anyone or anything for granted.
In the end, there is no choice in the matter of who to vote for, but it is proper and necessary for Black people to make demands of the man who wants their vote.
If they do not do it now, when will they do it?
David Shasha