Time to leave Joe - while you still can
Posted on 02/13/2020 4:44:28 PM PST by TigerClaws
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has repeatedly touted his support from black voters as a sign of his electability in the general election, but he reportedly caused frustration during a meeting last year when he said black "parents can't read."
Biden's remarks, which were first reported by The New York Times on Thursday, came during a private gathering with prominent black mayors from Georgia. Three people with direct knowledge of the meeting confirmed the account to the newspaper, noting that Biden had said that black communities face a problem because "parents can't read or write themselves." Many of the attendees were reportedly "shocked" and "frustrated" by the former vice president's comment.
When contacted,Biden's campaign referred Newsweek to the statement it had given to The Times. That statement suggested Biden was referring to his personal experience. "The Vice President regularly talks about how his father's experience has shaped the way he feels about and views the relationship between parents and their children's learning," the campaign said in the statement. Joe Biden Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden addresses the crowd during a South Carolina campaign launch party on February 11 in Columbia, South CarolinaSean Rayford/Getty
The revelation came as Biden has slipped in national polls and has performed well below expectations in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary this month. Senator Bernie Sanders, who won the popular vote in Iowa and won overall in New Hampshire, has surged to frontrunner status in most national surveys. Meanwhile, Biden has suggested that his campaign will rally in the upcoming Nevada caucuses and South Carolina primary, which have significantly larger minority populations.
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Unfortunately for him, his comments are being made public because the media arm of the DNC wants him gone.
Another shot to the kneecap...
Well that’s going to garner some attention right there. I sure would hope Biden runs against Trump and they have a debate. Viewership will go right through the roof.
Well that’s going to garner some attention right there. I sure would hope Biden runs against Trump and they have a debate. Viewership will go right through the roof.
You tell ‘em, Joe! Speak truth to power....lol
I know know blacks from a lot of different areas, the good and the bad.
The ones from the bad neighborhoods, some of them may not read or write well, but I don’t know any who can’t read or write at all.
Joe’s kinda stuck in a different time.
But he’s RIGHT in that if you can’t write or read WELL you can’t help your kids.
Time to leave Joe - while you still can
Joe, that wasn’t a bug, that was a feature.
It is the Progressive public education strategy to make us dumb, docile, and dependent so we’ll vote Democrat.
Yep. I don’t think they can make it much more obvious.
It’s only because they don’t pay their light bills and then can’t plug in the phonograph to play the 78s that tell you how to read and write.
I’m actually surprised a democrat is getting scolded twice this week for speaking the truth.
The snowflakes in the black community need to grow up and accept responsibility for once.
Politicians need to stop acting like babysitters to them as well, but since both groups are evil I expect them to feed off of each other for power and freebies.
Do I even need to quote that famous Einstein quote?
It's time to end the Dept. of Education and let the states run their own education systems and offer incentives for people to home school.
Does he still want to turn on the record player? Doesn’t that help education of kids?
It is definitely true in the case of many Hispanic parents. When their average offspring learn to read, many are convinced they are geniuses and get upset when they can’t pass the requirements to get into the Gifted programs. It’s always something....
Biden and Bloomie are both toast. Ain’t no room for septuagenarian truth-telling in today’s “woke” Democrat party.
It’ whitey fault.
That’s the first intelligent comment he’s made in his whole life.
It's racist to tell the truth.
The media has the capacity to turn Biden’s statements into the equivalence of their take on Trump’s Charlottesville comments.
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