Joe Biden opines once again on black people – and then tries to say the opposite
He says they all think alike.
Well, at least he didn’t say they all look alike.
Here’s the quote: “Unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly diverse attitudes about different things.” And then, when his campaign aides tried to say he didn’t quite mean it that way, he repeated it: “Now when I mean full diversity [of the Latino community], unlike African American community, many other communities, you’re from everywhere.”
Of course, there’s some truth to the statement not in the ethnic sense but in the political sense. Black people vote almost entirely as a bloc for Democrats (often 90% and above), and Hispanics have slightly more variable voting habits (about 2/3 voting for Democrats ordinarily).
Word must have gotten to Biden – or more likely to his handlers – that the MSM firewall that protects him from having the public learn what a doofus he is has been breached. So he – and his handlers – had to issue a correction that was called a clarification:
Earlier today, I made some comments about diversity in the African American and Latino communities that I want to clarify. In no way did I mean to suggest the African American community is a monolith—not by identity, not on issues, not at all.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 7, 2020
In other words, “I said the opposite of what I meant.”
Biden is absolutely correct when he says, “don’t believe everything Joe says”. Biden of today is indistinguishable from the Biden of previous years. He has always been prone to gaffes.
Andy:
Yes, he’s always been prone to “gaffes.” But what’s happening now is far different from his old gaffes. Although errors and stupid statements are part of it both then and now, his entire demeanor and ability to articulate thoughts has declined.
Biden tends to see people in categories. Remember what he said about Obama and Indian Americans. He has been so isolated in his Acela bubble, he has never really had personal interactions with average people.
Zero chance that he wrote that tweet.
The people he said all look alike are East Asians — or rather, he said that Americans in general can’t tell one from another.
Dwaz:
I agree that Biden did not write the tweet.
Even in his best days, long ago, it’s not something I think he would have written. In particular, the used of the word “monolith” is the tell. It’s the word of a more literary person.
neo: Heh!
I’d like a cartoon of Biden tentatively touching the Monolith in “2001.”
It would probably fall over on him.
Biden then vs. Biden now–
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/former-dni-richard-grenell-posts-video-not-devastating-biden-campaign/
That video of Biden in 2008 vs. Biden 2020 is devastating. In 2008, he was wrong on everything, in my opinion, but he was mentally there. Now, he’s gone.
Good dementia test for Biden: have him READ out loud the lyrics to Undecided.
If he actually meant the black community was diverse, then what would be the point of his statement? He was making a distinction between the two groups. If it wasn’t that blacks lack diversity, then what was it?
FYI: In terms of political diversity, up until about thirty years ago, he was probably mostly right and that Democrats reliably could count on their votes. Today, I think more and more black people are escaping that old paradigm and becoming more independent in their political thinking.
For me, what this shows is not so much that Biden is racist (though I suspect he is), but how out of touch Biden is with the electorate.
We may not know who Biden’s VP will be, but we do have a good idea—someone whom he trusts implicitly—who will probably be his Treasury Secretary:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/broke-and-unemployed-hunter-biden-slapped-450k-tax-lien-which-was-resolved-six-days
File under: All in the Family.
“clarify” now means to walk something back when it turns out it wasn’t well-received.
Someone get Joe a dictionary, assuming he can still read.