• Flying Squid
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    8 months ago

    Yes, that definitely sounds like the type of person a black man would choose as his vice president and who chose a black woman as his own vice president.

    • @Psychodelic@lemmy.world
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      68 months ago

      If we wanna play dumb, we can bring up Biden’s stance on “forced bussing”.

      Seriously though, you’re not even saying he can’t be racist because he has a black friend, you’re saying he can’t be racist because he worked with black people? That’s a ridiculous take, dude.

      I mean, you know Republicans work with Tim Scott so they’re basically advocating for reparations, I guess

        • @gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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          78 months ago

          Because he knew he needed to get the “I’m not racist, but I just don’t know if America is ready for a black president” racist twits to vote for him, and he knew that picking up an old white guy with a history of saying “These segregationists have a point” was the way to do that.

          The pundits called it folksy blue collar charm.

    • @FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
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      48 months ago

      Uh… I don’t agree with that commenter, but that was kind of the reason he was chosen by Obama. He was chosen to be a signal to the racists that Obama was “one of the good ones.” Biden was famous for working with racists in the past. Do I think he would go so far as to bring back slavery? Hell no.