Joe Biden tells The Breakfast Club's Charlamagne tha God and African American voters in an interview Friday that 'you ain’t black' if they back President Trump's reelection.
Noting that the radio host had more questions, Biden said,"You got more questions? I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain’t black."The comments made at the end of the Breakfast Club interview were in jest, but let’s be clear about what the VP was saying: he was making the distinction that he would put his record with the African American community up against Trump’s any day.
Period.Biden has often grown defensive of his criminal justice record, which has been a subject of scrutiny since the launch of his presidential campaign over a year ago, in large part due to his spearheading of the 1994 crime bill when he served as Senate Judiciary Committee chairman., D-Calif., at the first Democratic debate, did not stop him from earning an overwhelming amount of support from the black community in South Carolina that propelled him to become the apparent Democratic nominee last month. Biden made that point during the interview when asked if he could attract enough African American and Hispanic youth voters to win the presidency. "Remember when they said ‘Biden can't win the primaries?’ I kicked everybody's ahh...," he said, his voice trailing off."I won overwhelmingly." The former vice president stressed he will win the African American vote and is committed to reforming the crime bill byCharlamagne told Biden that his skepticism about Biden's criminal justice record has"nothing to do with Trump," but everything to do with his personal urge to help his community overcome deep racial disparities. "Take a look at my record, man," Biden said."I extended the Voting Rights Act 25 years' I have a record that is second to none. The NAACP has endorsed me every time I've run. I mean, come on, take a look at the record." The Trump campaign's Katrina Pierson called Biden's remarks"racist and dehumanizing," saying,"Joe Biden believes black men and women are incapable of being independent or free thinking." On a call with the press hosted by the Trump campaign, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the GOP's sole African-American senator, said he was"shocked and surprised" when he heard Biden's"you ain't black" comment, calling it"negative, race-baiting rhetoric." "I was struck by the condescension and the arrogance in his comments," Scott said."I could not believe my ears that he would stoop so low to tell folks what they should do, how they should think and what it means to be black."
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