On the May 22, 2020 episode of Charlamagne Tha God’s popular podcast, Joe Biden said words that have become infamous:
“If you don’t vote for me, you ain’t black.”
The modern antiracist movement claims to be expanding justice, but what it has actually expanded is control. By redefining race as ideology, it has turned identity into something granted or revoked by political authority. Biden’s line sounded outrageous to anyone still living in the old world, but within this new framework it was perfectly consistent. He wasn’t announcing a belief; he was applying a rule.
When race stops being anchored in ancestry, culture or lived experience, it becomes whatever the ideology requires in the moment. Disagreement becomes whiteness. Obedience becomes blackness. Authenticity becomes a credential issued by activists, media figures and politicians who benefit from controlling access to the category. And once that mechanism is in place, dissent isn’t just wrong. It’s heretical.
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Article URL : https://pjmedia.com/jamie-wilson/2025/11/23/the-new-definition-of-blackness-when-race-stops-meaning-race-n4946320