{"id":1972068,"date":"2023-07-13T14:42:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T18:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/op-ed-black-americans-were-doing-great-under-trump-then-joe-biden-showed-up\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T14:45:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T18:45:19","slug":"op-ed-black-americans-were-doing-great-under-trump-then-joe-biden-showed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/op-ed-black-americans-were-doing-great-under-trump-then-joe-biden-showed-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: Black Americans Thrived Under Trump&#8230; Until Biden Arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fop-ed-black-americans-were-doing-great-under-trump-then-joe-biden-showed-up%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1972068&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>How can President Joe Biden have the most racially focused presidency in history while black Americans have lost so much ground during his administration?<\/h2>\n<p>Horace Cooper\u2019s latest book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Put-Yall-Back-Chains-Americans\/dp\/1637587066\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Put Y\u2019all Back in Chains<\/a>: How Joe Biden\u2019s Policies Hurt Black Americans,\u201d dares to question the accepted view that the Biden administration is making a special effort to assist blacks and the working class.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he uses Biden\u2019s infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5gII8D-lzbA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">campaign quote<\/a> claiming that the GOP would \u201cput y\u2019all back in chains\u201d to reveal the president\u2019s cynicism.<\/p>\n<p>Using research and a critical eye, Cooper thoroughly breaks down the problems caused by Biden\u2019s policies. More importantly, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/premiering-4-29-at-730pm-et-kevin-roberts-a-roadmap-to-defeating-the-deep-state-and-winning-the-new-cold-war-with-communist-china\/\" title=\"PREMIERING 4\/29 at 7:30PM ET: Kevin Roberts: A Roadmap to Defeating the Deep State and Winning the New Cold War with Communist China\">offers practical solutions<\/a> in lieu of the left\u2019s standard view of \u201csystemic racism,\u201d the all-powerful force that snatches the hopes and dreams of blacks or any minorities and always requires more and more government.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cPut Y\u2019all Back in Chains,\u201d Cooper exposes how government intervention has harmed the lives of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/black-florida-business-owner-demolishes-naacp-travel-advisory-buries-race-baiting-narrative-just-three-words\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">black Americans<\/a> (particularly the poorest), and he outlines the Democratic Party\u2019s parasitic relationship with black voters.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats need blacks to fear racism and ignore the real opportunities that can bring about the American dream in their lives, he contends, and fear of racism pushes blacks into the arms of the Democrats while obviating any need for Democrats to produce an agenda to provide economic improvements for blacks.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper opens the book with the jarring fact that at the dawn of the 20th century, black men were the most likely to be employed among all racial groups and were buying and building homes at a faster rate than whites \u00ad\u2013 a stark contrast to today. So what happened?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeavy-handed economic regulation kills,\u201d says Cooper. Government intervention supposedly aimed at \u201chelping Americans\u201d has often harmed blacks, and since the 1920s, this has been an intentional tradeoff.<\/p>\n<p>No administration has evidenced this more clearly than the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>Three years before the COVID-19 pandemic and during the presidency of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-issues-blistering-statement-bidens-embarrassing-admission-us-weapons-stockpiles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>, black unemployment was hitting record lows on an almost monthly basis and reaching levels not seen in half a century.<\/p>\n<p>But the arrival of Joe Biden (with the large support of the black community) brought a toxic combination of lockdowns, forced vaccinations, new regulations and inflation. As a consequence, blacks lost big and today are worse off than they were before the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Lockdowns disproportionally harmed blacks who worked blue-collar jobs that couldn\u2019t be done remotely. And when the vaccine mandates rolled out, blacks refused the jab in larger numbers than other groups, leaving them jobless. But the federal government, the largest employer of blacks across the country, was unbothered.<\/p>\n<p>There were also other regulations beyond the pandemic response, like attacks on the gig economy similar to California\u2019s AB5 and the push to expand \u201canti-black\u201d union laws like Davis-Bacon. Plus, with a raft of measures that raised energy prices, Biden seemed dead set on making it hard for black Americans to work, reversing progress gained under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Consider Biden\u2019s war on fossil fuels. The left claims <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/white-house-opens-door-bill-gates-style-sun-dimming-plan-fight-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">climate change<\/a> disproportionately hurts blacks. In reality, the opposite is true. \u201cWhen climate activists succeed, blacks lose,\u201d says Cooper.<\/p>\n<p>From killing the Keystone XL pipeline to ending drilling on federal lands, Biden has subjected a record number of Americans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-begs-oil-industry-to-lower-prices-as-energy-crisis-looms-report\/\" title=\"Biden Begs Oil Industry To Lower Prices As Energy Crisis Looms: REPORT\">rising energy costs<\/a>, with studies finding that black households pay significantly more.<\/p>\n<p>Hoping to deflect, Biden has conjured up myth after myth to explain record prices at the pump, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/op-ed-black-americans-were-doing-great-under-trump-then-joe-biden-showed-up\/\" title=\"Op-Ed: Black Americans Thrived Under Trump... Until Biden Arrived\">gas station owners artificially raising<\/a> their prices against their own interests to what he called \u201cPutin\u2019s price hike.\u201d But perhaps the most problematic policy has been the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/thanks-joe-biden-cost-fourth-july-cookout-reaches-record-high-thanks-inflation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inflation<\/a> that Biden unleashed on unsuspecting households \u2014 hurting black families most.<\/p>\n<p>Compounding the effects of Biden\u2019s backward policies has been his administration\u2019s promotion of the woke agenda.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most insightful chapters of \u201cPut Y\u2019all Back in Chains\u201d covers how progressive policies have unleashed a wave of crime in black communities across the country. From the 1960s onwards, progressives have become infatuated with policies that separate accountability from bad behavior. Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-dem-calls-us-founding-awful\/\" title=\"Wisconsin Dem Calls US Founding \u2018Awful\u2019\">critical race theory argues<\/a> that racial disparities in the justice system require the circumvention of the system entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s embrace of Soros-backed district attorneys like Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, who has dismissed or lost more than half of all drug-related cases and almost half of all illegal firearm arrests, and pro-criminal DA Alvin Bragg in New York, who has made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/man-uses-gun-turn-tables-robbers-come-atm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">self-defense<\/a> a relic of the past, has been disastrous. With progressive prosecutors refusing to protect the victim and instead serving the criminal, blacks (who are overwhelmingly the victims of violent crime) lose.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper ends his groundbreaking new book by unveiling Biden\u2019s own racist past, which is a far cry from what Martin Luther King envisioned for America\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s racist pronouncements, his promotion of CRT and his race-baiting all illustrate a policymaking process rife with racial blemishes and expose a desire to keep black Americans down or, as Biden once said, \u201cput y\u2019all back in chains.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Read the full article <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/op-ed-black-americans-great-trump-joe-biden-showed\/\">here<\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his book, &#8220;Put Y&#8217;all Back in Chains,&#8221; Horace Cooper challenges the notion that President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration is racially focused, as black Americans have experienced setbacks. It questions the accepted belief that Biden is making exceptional efforts for racial progress during his presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2204,"featured_media":1972069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1972069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}