OPINION:
Next year’s presidential election will be a wake-up moment for African Americans (“Disappointed Black voters pull support, imperil Biden reelection,” web, Nov. 27).
We are in search of a president who “walks it like they talk it.”
The difference between the coming election and 2020’s is that voters have a greater understanding of how White House politics affects their daily lives. And the issues go well beyond the economy. It is the political left’s “woke” agenda that is having the greatest influence.
In the last election campaign, now-President Biden claimed that he would have our backs. But in his first week in office, he announced a progressive agenda as his top priority, and that agenda is still sending shock waves throughout the nation.
It is sad that the public has not gotten to enjoy the many promised rewards of picking Mr. Biden as president. Of course, those in Mr. Biden’s inner circle got rewards aplenty, including cushy jobs and higher salaries, but none of that made it to the average voter.
Our school systems are being forced to embrace curricula that does not prepare students for the workforce, and our educators are threatened with termination if they dare oppose said curricula. Our Justice Department employs two sets of rules: one for the leftist elite and another for everyone else, including conservatives and anyone associated with former President Donald Trump.
Touting abstract data points about the child tax credits and the infrastructure law doesn’t bring down the rising costs of groceries and gas. The Democrats hope they can keep us from focusing on these day-to-day issues, so they insult us with the politics of fear and racism to secure our support. The low voter turnout in last month’s Louisiana primaries should supply them with some insight.
There is little excitement about the efforts of the Biden administration or the Democrats at large. Whenever I see or hear our youth saying they must commit a crime in order to be able to buy food, I wonder what great, so-called wins this administration is looking at every day.
This time around, the Democrats’ business-as-usual model of finger-pointing and blaming Mr. Trump is not going to cut it.
GREG RALEIGH
Washington
