You can't let Joe Biden be Joe Biden.
Will Black Voters Still Love Biden When They Remember Who He Was?
By
Eric Levitz@EricLevitz
Say it ain’t Joe. Photo: C-SPAN
Joe Biden once called state-mandated school integration “
the most racist concept you can come up with,” and Barack Obama “
the first sort of mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean.” He was a staunch opponent of
“forced busing” in the 1970s, and
leading crusader for mass incarceration throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s. Uncle Joe has described African-American felons as
“predators” too sociopathic to rehabilitate — and white supremacist senators a
s his friends.
And, as of this writing,
a plurality of black Democrats want him to be their party’s 2020 nominee.
Whether Biden can retain that support, after voters learn more about his problematic past, could very well determine the outcome of the party’s primary race. To explore that question, let’s pick through the former vice-president’s hefty baggage on racial justice — and then, the case for thinking that Obama’s halo will prove to be brighter than the shadow of Biden’s record is dark
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Joe Biden is going to hide from the lime light as much as possible, but when he does have to be put under the light, he is going to have a hard time defending his past.
Discuss........
