The Fight Against Fascists (I Can't Believe This Exists)

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(06-16-2021, 04:51 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: How about this one?

"Poor kids are just as bright as white kids."

Or this one...

"You got the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” (That’s in reference to President Obama.)

Or this one...

“Unlike the African-American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly diverse attitudes about different things.”

Or this one...

“In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”

Or this one...

"I don't want my children to grow up in a jungle, a racial jungle."  (On school intergration in the 1970's)

If you're a big fan of Joe Biden then that's fine.  I'm not going to sit here and pretend we can't find controversial quotes from any number of politicians.  But to pretend like he won the black vote because he's been some huge force in the civil rights movement is absurd.  He won the black vote because of his party.

Well. The first quote is a Biden gaffe, he just misspoke and imho there's nothing more to read into it. The second one sure deserves critizism, though I doubt the racist intent. The third one, however, I got what he wanted to say and it's something quite true, that hispanics as a whole cover a way larger political spectrum from left to right. The fourth one, yeah, worthy of critizism again, but again more for bad phrasing than bad intent. The fifth one is truly bad, for sure, there are bad quotes of him and there's no denying that.

But overall? It's the black community that played the deciding part in Biden getting the nomination in the first place. Most of the alleged racism victims don't seem to consider him a racist. In that sense, I find it hard to be more appalled than the demographic that would have most reason to be if Biden really came across as such.