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Showing Original Post only (View all)Black Lawmakers Have Joe Biden's Back Following Segregationist Comments [View all]
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus were quick to defend Joe Biden after the uproar over comments claiming Biden had worked with segregationists to 'get things done.' Jim Clyburn was quoted as follows:
I worked with Strom Thurmond all my life, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.), the highest-ranking African American in Congress, said of the infamous segregationist senator. You dont have to agree with people to work with them.
It appears that a number of CBC members would refute the idea that Biden is the 'most tone deaf politician in American history.'
Which btw would be Donald Trump.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/19/joe-biden-segregationist-comments-1370844
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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Black Lawmakers Have Joe Biden's Back Following Segregationist Comments [View all]
peggysue2
Jun 2019
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I didn't see DeBlasio, I forget that he's a candidate. As a New Yorker I have reservations about...
George II
Jun 2019
#29
i don't know what de blasio said but if he is attacking Biden that alone would probably help Biden
JI7
Jun 2019
#40
Thankfully, no one at all (other than yourself) is arguing or implying otherwise.
LanternWaste
Jun 2019
#5
Of course they have his back just like me because they're experts on whiteness
underthematrix
Jun 2019
#6
This is much ado about nothing, and Joe Biden's frontrunner status. I predict, like all the other..
Tarheel_Dem
Jun 2019
#8
Not all of the black community supports any one candidate, but wait till we get to South Carolina.
Tarheel_Dem
Jun 2019
#42
I've been on social media too long because I looked for a 'thumbs up' button for your reply.
wyldwolf
Jun 2019
#12
And, Shirley Chisholm visited George Wallace in the hospital after he had been shot
loyalsister
Jun 2019
#19
I'm getting the feeling that the RW is pushing hard to divide us and against the, for now, front
emmaverybo
Jun 2019
#31