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That is a very Mastodon response.

The only math I need to show, is right here:

1) During the height of a pandemic that was decimating Black communities, following the George Floyd protests where Black people begged for help avoiding the criminal justice hell that Biden himself had helped create with his crime bill and pushing for harsher local enforcement... Biden took $52 billion that was supposed to be for helping Black communities, and instead gave it to local cops, and even used the State of the Union address and other forums to compel cities and states to spend that relief money on cops and jails.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/09/07/how-federal-covid-relief-flows-to-the-criminal-justice-system

2) There is no part 2. Read 1) again. Do math on those numbers.

It's 2025, and people are really still wondering why fewer Black people were going to vote for Biden than any Dem candidate in modern history. People are talking about "The economy," because it's less painful than confronting this. People love to talk *about* Black men Dem voters, but no one likes to talk *to* Black men Dem voters. It's easier to pretend that millions of Black men turned to Trump (they didn't), than to confront the reality that millions of Black men said "I'm not going to stand in line for hours to vote for Biden, if he's just going to do this to me, while white Dem voters aren't even going to pretend to care."