Biden embraces healer-in-chief role in return to campaign trail

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Biden embraces healer-in-chief role in return to campaign trail

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But Biden is also demonstrating an awareness -- as a white man whose political life began at the end of the civil rights movement -- of the perils of making this moment about himself. He has spent the last week in listening mode, calling African American scholars and meeting with black organizers, faith leaders and local officials.

"I'm a white man. I think I understand, but I can't feel it," Biden said in a virtual town hall Thursday. "I don't know what it's like to be a black man walking down the street and be accosted; to be a black man walking down the street and be arrested; to be a black man walking down the street and, God forbid, something worse happen to me."

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