Biden: If you vote for Trump, you're not really black...
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Biden: If you vote for Trump, you're not really black...:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52773555
*"Democratic White House candidate Joe Biden has said in an interview African Americans "ain't black" if they vote for President Donald Trump over him.
When Joe was younger, people used to talk like that.
And it was OK.
Maybe even kind of hip.
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@xenon said in Biden: If you vote for Trump, you're not really black...:
Turns out he said sorry. That's good. But, doesn't give you confidence that his marbles are all accounted for.
What's low marble about what he said? It's very common amongst white liberals to assume all black people are identical in their opinions and view of all things political. WTF has many such luminaries. I was once roundly castigated there for suggesting that Trump would have more black voters this election than last election.
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@Loki said in Biden: If you vote for Trump, you're not really black...:
When you watch it Biden stumbles as if he can’t remember Trump’s name. That might be the scariest part.
Waiting for the reporter who asked Romney about his gaffes to comment on this...
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in Biden: If you vote for Trump, you're not really black...:
@Loki said in Biden: If you vote for Trump, you're not really black...:
When you watch it Biden stumbles as if he can’t remember Trump’s name. That might be the scariest part.
Waiting for the reporter who asked Romney about his gaffes to comment on this...
The only hope here for Biden supporters is that this is all out of context and not an accurate portrayal.
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@George-K said in Biden: If you vote for Trump, you're not really black...:
@Loki said in Biden: If you vote for Trump, you're not really black...:
When you watch it Biden stumbles as if he can’t remember Trump’s name. That might be the scariest part.
Waiting for the reporter who asked Romney about his gaffes to comment on this...
I'm calling BS on this.
It's edited, at exactly the right spot to stitch together two segments.
Watch it again, and see what I mean? -
Allen West responds.
https://west4texas.com/2020/05/22/a-black-mans-response-to-joe-biden/
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CNN: What Biden said was outrageous. But, some say, so was the reaction
Critics pounced.
Tim Scott of South Carolina, the lone black Republican in the Senate, criticized Biden, saying 1.3 million black Americans voted for Trump in 2016.
"I'd say I'm surprised, but it's sadly par for the course for Democrats to take the black community for granted and brow beat those that don't agree," he said.
The Trump campaign called the remarks "racist and dehumanizing."
"He truly believes that he, a 77-year-old white man, should dictate how Black people should behave," said Katrina Pierson, a senior adviser with the campaign, in a statement.
But others who were angered by Biden's comments focused more on the tone of his comments.
"There is no place for a white man to define blackness in America," said Hawk Newsome, chairman of Black Lives Matter in Greater New York."
Asked if he disagreed with the content of Biden's comments, Newsome replied:
"The tonality of Mr. Biden's statement was condescending and insensitive. If he would have stated differently, we wouldn't be having this conversation."By the end of the day, Biden seemed to have received the message loud and clear. He should not have been "so cavalier," a chastened Biden said
Alternate explanation for CNN:
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If only Joe had read this 13 years ago.
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16260629
Redefining What It Means to Be Black in America
November 13, 20072:28 PM ET
JUAN WILLIAMS> A Single Race?
Another revelatory finding in the Pew poll is that 37 percent of African Americans now agree that it is no longer appropriate to think of black people as a single race. A little more than half of the black people polled — 53 percent — agreed that it is right to view blacks as a single race. And the people most likely to say blacks are no longer a single race are young black people, ages 18-29.
Forty-four percent of those young black people say there is no one black race anymore, as compared to 35 percent of the 30- to 49-year-old black population, and 34 percent of the black people over age 65.
The split in the black race comes down to a matter of values, according to the poll. In response to the question, "Have the values of middle-class and poor blacks become more similar or more different?" 61 percent of black Americans said "more different." White Americans agreed, with 54 percent saying there is a growing values gap between the black middle class and the black poor; 45 percent of Hispanics agreed, too.
