From Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged:
I don’t have a whole lot to comment about with The Breakfast Club/Biden interview, but in terms of Biden gaffe, if this is going to be a problem, um, hold on to your butts, because it’s kind of Joe Biden’s thing. I think I lean towards the “badly-landed and too familiar joke” camp with what Biden had said because I don’t think his intentions are bad or that he doesn’t care, but I think he made a classic white people mistake (of which I am also guilty sometimes) of thinking if you have Black friends, you can kind of get away with being a little looser in discussing race issues–and it was the wrong time, because it always is.
But especially when running for president, and here’s my issue with it, which doesn’t necessarily come down to a question of race or any other thing, but Trump. Because when Charlemagne said “It don’t have nothing to do with Trump”, he has an incredible point. You have to imagine that you are not running against the worst human, a person with a terrible record and who says hateful things. You have to realize you are running to do something about the country that elected that guy. You have to pull this country back from that edge. It isn’t Trump–it’s the things that got him here.