{"id":5571,"date":"2023-12-10T00:25:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T00:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=5571"},"modified":"2023-12-10T00:25:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T00:25:29","slug":"biden-beware-young-folks-dont-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=5571","title":{"rendered":"Biden Beware, Young Folks Don\u2019t Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by\u00a0Julianne Malveaux<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no question how I will vote in a contest between President Joe Biden and the toxic prior president. Biden wins every time. But I\u2019m just me \u2014 I\u2019m not the pollsters, the young\u2019uns, the rural votes, and the disaffected. Listing Biden\u2019s accomplishments and comparing them to those of others might be instructive if people paid attention to facts. Too many voters are motivated by feelings, and they aren\u2019t feeling good about their own economic circumstances, the uncertainty of recession, about our international involvement, especially in Ukraine, and even about his age and his health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, for a month Israel has been brutally bombing Gaza, bombing hospitals, refugee camps, schools and more. They say it is retaliation for the brutal Hamas on Israel on Oct. 7, which no one condones, and most have repudiated in strong terms. But an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind, and in their bloodlust to retaliate against Hamas, Israel has slaughtered nearly 10,000 innocent Palestinians, including thousands of children. They have denied the Gazan population the mere basics, like drinking water, electricity, fuel and health care, reducing doctors to performing surgery in the dark and without anesthesia. They have denied requests for a cease-fire or even a humanitarian break, leaving as many as two million people stuck in Gaza without border openings. Whatever inhumanity Hamas perpetrated on Oct. 7, Israel has increased it exponentially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent Saturday was a balmy pleasant day in my D.C. neighborhood. A friend and I were walking toward a local restaurant when we encountered group of young people who had just come from the Palestinian March to the White House. There were six or seven of them, diverse, a couple of Black folks, a white guy, and two women wearing the keffiyeh, the checkered black and white scarf that Yasser Arafat wore, a symbol of Palestinian solidarity. Another carried the Palestinian flag, the black, white, green stripes with a red triangle at the left. I asked them how the march went, and they were exuberant. But one woman, then another, then another said harshly, I will never vote for Joe Biden. I voted for him before, and I won\u2019t do it again. What about the alternative, I asked. Would you rather have the Republican alternative. One young woman lowered her head and her voice. \u201cI don\u2019t care,\u201d she said. \u201cBiden has betrayed us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has said much the same thing, accusing President Biden of supporting the genocide of Palestinians. The first Palestinian to serve in Congress, Tlaib\u2019s principled outspokenness has attracted the ire of her colleagues. Republicans have attempted to censure her for her pro-Palestinian comments. Meanwhile, Palestinians are dying, and our nation\u2019s rabid support of Israel seems to sideline concerns about innocent Palestinian civilians who have been victims of the extreme Israeli response to the Hamas provocation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Biden is walking on a tightrope, and his balancing act isn\u2019t working well, especially for young Palestinians and other young people of color. He must, and he has, condemn the Hamas attack. But many think he has bent too far backward to mollify Israel while minimizing Palestinian civilian losses. Given who he is, and how he is, he has, perhaps, done his best. But his best is not enough for those who cringe at Israel\u2019s aggression, which did not start with the response to the Hamas Oct. 7 attack. Between 2008 and September 2023, more than 6,400 Palestinians were killed by Israelis. You can push people so hard for so long before they respond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, while necessarily singing from the Biden hymnbook, offers a measured attempt to broker a peace, a cease-fire, a time-out. His very careful comments are a credit to the Biden-Harris administration, but they aren\u2019t enough to quell the anger that many young people feel about the administration\u2019s failure to call for a cease-fire. How many Palestinians must die in hospitals, refugee camps, and in their homes to satisfy Netanyahu\u2019s bloodthirsty quest for revenge?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Biden beware. Many young people don\u2019t care about all the good you\u2019ve done doesn\u2019t matter when you turn your back on people who are being decimated by the bloodthirsty despot Netanyahu. In the midst of a cordial impromptu sidewalk conversation, I saw an angry determination in the eyes of the young people, who\u2019d driven from New York to participate in the protest on Nov. 4. I will never vote for Biden, one of them said, with an edge to her voice missing from our prior cordial conversation. President Biden, what will you do about that? You need these young people to win in 2024. Don\u2019t ignore them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: Published without changes from Washington Informer Newspaper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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