I cringed when he said it.

NO one should ever say they "don't have a racist bone in their body."

And how do you expect him to stay away from this? Not comment when asked? Ignore it entirely? If he did that, he'd be crucified for not speaking out in support of these congresswomen.

He's right where he needs to be

But he did say exactly the same thing people are castigating Trump and racists for saying. I know some people here think that, like Mary Poppins, he's practically perfect in every way and has absolutely no room left for improvement (and God forbid anyone think he can do better), but I stand by my point. He shouldn't have said he doesn't have a racist bone in his body because that's a ridiculous statement, but now that he has said it, he'd be better off not joining in the mocking of anyone else for saying the same thing he did.

he's not perfect.. those are your words.

But, in this case you're wrong.. he does Not need to stay away.

and then trying to deny it .

said he wanted to send Obama back to Kenya?

Whether or not you like it, "not a racist bone in my body" has for a long time been a standard defense against any suggestion or direct charge that a person is racist.

What matters is whether the person making that statement is speaking the truth.

Trump was not.

Biden was.

considered for now the front-runner when there are more worthwhile Democratic candidates who do not have a hand in devastating the PoC community and those candidates represent the faces of the Democratic Party. His very utterance of "not a racist bone" in his body I agree is a trope that he should stay away from. It is code in my sphere of those who refuse to acknowledge their unconscious bias/racism and amazingly demand a reverse racism apology. At the very least it's a joke and it's base at its core. Bone spurs? Sheesh, how about his many deferments from duty and opposing asylum for South Vietnamese refugees?

I for one will not be motivated by fear of 45 as was the last election and those before because of the next threat and yet here we are with the biggest threat in generations, when in good faith we prayed that we were past it. This propping up of Biden is painful to me because the measure of a health is not how well we're adjusted to a sick society and that's what he represents in that there's too much to attack for maintaining the status quo with his sleight of hand.

I will root for Warren and Harris and Buttiege and Klobuchar and whoever comes out strong because I know in my heart that they represent in their own way a myriad of ways what democracy stands for, until we the people deem otherwise.

Good night.

judgment so superior to theirs that you consider him racist and a representative of a sick society.

Obviously Obama didn't agree with you.

I am glad you're in the minority.

because this sub-thread about Biden doing the racist bone thing is not at all about what black leaders think. Plus, don't you know we are not a monolith? There was a lot of fun with racist bone last month when he said it as well recovered etymology of this phrase. So if you think my judgement is superior it's because facts are superior, not me.

A little history.

from black leaders, including lawmakers.

detractors like this. Thank Goodness for those who see him for who he is.. not how some try to define him.

Stupid Lying ******* trump.

Thank You,

Link to tweet

Let's hope that he pulls that kind of ability during the next debate.