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Joe Biden: ‘Poor Kids Are Just as Bright and Just as Talented as White Kids’
breitbart.com ^ | 8/08/19 | Haris Alic

Posted on 08/08/2019 9:06:13 PM PDT by blueyon

Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed that “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids,” while addressing the Asian and Latino Coalition in Des Moines, Iowa on Thursday.

“We should challenge these students, we should challenge students in these schools to have advanced placement programs in these schools,” the former vice president said when discussing the need to improve America’s education system. “We have this notion that somehow if you’re poor you cannot do it, poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: 2020election; biden; bidengaffe; democrats; dnc; election2020; gaffomachine; idiot; pedo; racist; trump
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To: txnativegop

Joe Biden: "I don't want to make the speech."

141 posted on 08/09/2019 12:43:49 PM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: blueyon
said, "“poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids,” while addressing the Asian and Latino Coalition"

This is implying that Asian and Latino kids intelligence and talent is in question within his party. Since he had to clarify this message. If it was coming from another source that would've been said.

142 posted on 08/09/2019 1:01:19 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: blueyon

There were no poor, disadvantaged, or off-color kids around Joe during Joe’s younger formative years at Aaaaaarrrrchmeeeere (Archmere) Academy in Delaware. Lily-white class of 1961.

They just weren’t allowed there at that time. Period.

No wonder that Joe wonders out loud that clean and articulate blacks are “storybook”


143 posted on 08/09/2019 1:03:11 PM PDT by spiderpig (Does whatever a SpiderPig does)
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To: Steve Van Doorn

——This implying......-—

There is no implication. There is a clear thought process failure. A brain fart.

He was thinking black but uttered poor.In midthought his brain knew the statement was bad and uttered poor rather than racist black.

The statement is evidence of a worn out mind


144 posted on 08/09/2019 1:06:58 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.btyC. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: blueyon

Poor and white are related? Who knew?

So I guess that means black and rich are also.

He has a problem if he can’t speak any clearer than that. I’ve always wondered what we did to deserve any of these brainiacs from the demon-rat party.


145 posted on 08/09/2019 1:29:20 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Wasn’t that Harry Reid?


146 posted on 08/09/2019 1:52:11 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: Concentrate

It was Harry Reid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gw1iA6BHjU


147 posted on 08/09/2019 1:54:42 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: blueyon

Well...at least he’s not feeling up young girls, not that we know of.


148 posted on 08/09/2019 2:51:03 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: blueyon

https://www.dailywire.com/news/50454/watch-biden-forcefully-grabs-girl-after-being-ryan-saavedra?fbclid=IwAR1ml-D-_IHBNFnyNLF4HBSA7-2iimwBIJN9zYNf6UQ9itTTmK2Pwdd8LAs

Biden just assaulted a young girl


149 posted on 08/09/2019 3:01:55 PM PDT by TheBigJ
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To: o-n-money
Yogi made sense.
I read Yogi's book, When you Come to a Fork in the Road Take It. There's actually quite a bit of wisdom behind those seemingly nonsensical Yogi-isms.
150 posted on 08/09/2019 3:06:58 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: blueyon

Joe has got a serious case of foot-in-mouth disease.


151 posted on 08/09/2019 3:32:34 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: Vendome

Yeah well, their parents aren’t...

Riddle me this:

I’m sitting in front of the heater, when I was 3. I am trying to copy the logo, which is the name of manufacturer in cursive.

My Mom, inquires what I am doing. Now, I don’t know what words specifically I used but, it was something along the lines of “copying that”

Before I hit kindergarten, I am writing in block and cursive, as well, reading the newspapers and doing multiplication and division.

Heck, I read “Lightfoot and the Deer” before I was in kindergarten.

Now, imagine if my Mom wasn’t so interested in what I was interested in?

My Dad handed me “Khalil Gabrahn” and something about poems.

I didn’t understand the book but, whatever. My dad handed it to me and I read it....

What if he hadn’t been interested in my developing myund?


When my boy Karl was about 4-5, we had to put him in a daycare camp for a few weeks when my wife was overseas. Catholic nuns and whatnot. They took the kids out to walk around the building. The teacher told the kids to be quiet. She pointed to a sign and told them it said “No talking”. My boy piped up and said “No. It says no parking.”

Very early on, my two boys were reading and spelling stuff using the magnetic letters on the refrigerator at my Mom’s house. Some had to be censored, LOL.


152 posted on 08/09/2019 5:37:03 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: neverevergiveup

Most stupid people think they are intellectuals.


153 posted on 08/09/2019 5:44:28 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: bert
"He was thinking black but uttered poor."

Better yet, he'll eventually screw up and say it. And those early cracker Democrat primaries will love him all the more...

154 posted on 08/09/2019 5:46:33 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (CNN's Dana B: "Show of hands: Coverage for undocumented immigrants?" ***all Democrat hands raised***)
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To: blueyon

Poverty can foster an attitude of defeat, a belief that one cannot succeed.

The Racism of Low Expectations, as Barbara from Harlem says and as someone before her said, I think.

The entire ball game is something called will.

When the Russians were trying to find a young girl gymnast to compete in the Olympics, did they give them all an athletic test? No way. They gave them a piece of paper with scattered numbers from 1 to 100 and told them to start with one and proceed. Who do you think won?

Only one guess.

Yes, you are right. Olga Korbut. Of course they were all young female gymnasts but only one of them was able to win the gold medal. Because she had the will to find those numbers.

Think about it.

Forget the nature/nurture controversy. Just think the power of the human will.


155 posted on 08/09/2019 5:58:45 PM PDT by firebrand (Hope I don't sound too Leni Riefenstahlish here.)
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To: firebrand

Narcissism is ubiquitous in politicians.


156 posted on 08/09/2019 6:02:27 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: USMCPOP

Use to have fun with those and alphabet soup...


157 posted on 08/09/2019 6:41:47 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: blueyon

Don’t let there be any doubt that he’s as racist as the day is long. Have you ever heard is “Obama is black but he’s OK” speech. Holy crap. I’m sure YouTube scrubbed all video clips of it days after it came out but it’s a masterpiece. Creepy Uncle Joe is explaining to the constituents that, “Yeah, sure he’s black. But he’s clean...[pregnant pause]...and smart.”

You can’t find the clip anymore of Al “Failed out of divinity and law school” Gore where he’s with President-elect Klinton at a museum in D.C. The curator walks him over to a bunch of busts of the founding fathers and Bubba nearly did a face-palm when the father of the internet asks, “Now who are these people?” while looking straight at the best likeness of Ben Franklin that you’ll ever find (if you’re not prone to carrying $100 bills). YouTube buried that one, too.


158 posted on 08/09/2019 7:12:34 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: BradyLS
Bill Clinton....black folks enjoy the news ev’ry bit as much as ordinary Americans do.”

In the movie Twins, Danny DeVito parked in a handicapped space. A cop challenged him. DeVito said: "Do I look normal to you?"

So do Maxine,Corey,Elijah Cummings,Al Green and Sheila Jackson Lee seem ordinary to us? Not really.

159 posted on 08/09/2019 7:16:11 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen votforbing & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: metmom

Dear Joe,

I agree entirely that there are smart people everywhere, and that you can find incredibly bright people in poor inner city neighborhoods.

That said, the same is true for ‘pedigree’. There are plenty of untalented graduates and faculty at Harvard, Princeton, Yale etc., and plenty of truly unimpressive and incompetent people walking the halls of Congress. One could easily find people all over the country who are ‘just as bright’, or more, than the people who populate public office.

I doubt, however, that you would be capable or willing to admit or embrace this - considering that your whole self-concept (and that or so many in public office) is predicated on an erroneous belief in ‘superiority’ over those who aren’t part of the DC power structure.

If you are sincere in what you said about ‘poor kids’ being just as bright as anyone else, you need to also admit that the American public, including those who don’t vote for you or your party, are also just as bright as any of your donors, supporters, or colleagues. Put another way, you can’t sincerely be for the eradication of ‘some’ prejudicial stereotypes while turning a blind eye to others.


160 posted on 08/09/2019 8:04:32 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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