“After 40-plus years, Joe Biden has finally agreed and listened to me … and other black conservatives and now out of nowhere he has a black agenda,” he said. “Now Joe-come-lately wants to come out and imitate Donald Trump’s agenda for blacks in America. The first thing Joe should’ve had on his black agenda was opening up the Democratic Party to independent and conservative-thinking blacks.”
Jones recalled how he was attacked for supporting Trump. He even temporarily made the decision to resign from office over how he and his family were being treated. After an outpouring of support, however, he chose to stay in office, refusing to let Democrats bully him “into submission.”
“Like I said, Joe, you’re a day late and a dollar short,” Jones said. “You are not committed in your heart to the black agenda. This is an election ploy, this is a hoax, and we’re not going to stand for it.”Yesterday, @JoeBiden finally released his so-called “black agenda”. After four decades of putting illegals first and Americans last, he all of a sudden has time for us black folks!
— Vernon Jones (@RepVernonJones) May 5, 2020
It must be an election year!
Sorry Joe, you’re a day late and a dollar short. #MAGA pic.twitter.com/nUWVsli2yO
Biden’s plan for the black community aims to:
- Advance the economic mobility of African Americans and close the racial wealth and income gaps.
- Expand access to high-quality education and tackle racial inequity in our education system.
- Make far-reaching investments in ending health disparities by race.
- Strengthen America’s commitment to justice.
- Make the right to vote and the right to equal protection real for African Americans.
- Address environmental justice.