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01-26-2022, 06:49 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/19/politics/joe-biden-senate-segregationists-civility/index.html
During a fundraising event in New York, the Democratic presidential candidate recounted being a member of the Senate in the 1970s with southern Democrats who opposed civil rights and desegregation.
“To coddle the reputations of segregationist of people who if they had their way I would literally not be standing here as a member of the United States Senate, is I think it’s just it’s misinformed,” California Sen. Kamala Harris told reporters.
“To suggest that individuals who literally made it their life’s work to take America back on the issue of race is a real problem for me,” Harris said.
“You don’t joke about calling black men ‘boys.’ Men like James O. Eastland used words like that, and the racist policies that accompanied them, to perpetuate white supremacy and strip black Americans of our very humanity,” Booker said in a statement.
“Vice President Biden’s relationships with proud segregationists are not the model for how we make America a safer and more inclusive place for black people, and for everyone. I have to tell Vice President Biden, as someone I respect, that he is wrong for using his relationships with Eastland and Talmadge as examples of how to bring our country together,” he added. “And frankly, I’m disappointed that he hasn’t issued an immediate apology for the pain his words are dredging up for many Americans. He should.”
Booker personally “is pissed off and disappointed” by Biden’s comments, a senior Booker campaign aide said. “The impact of those words are cutting for a lot of folks, and the fact that there wasn’t an apology issued immediately is just very disappointing to him.”
De Blasio on Twitter highlighted some of Eastland’s racist views, saying it’s “past time for apologies or evolution” from Biden and that the former vice president “repeatedly demonstrates that he is out of step with the values of the modern Democratic Party.”
And former Maryland Rep. John Delaney said, “Evoking an avowed segregationist is not the best way to make the point that we need to work together and is insensitive; we need to learn from history but we also need to be aggressive in dismantling structural racism that exists today.”
Connie Schultz, the journalist and wife of Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, tweeted: “There is no punchline here, no emoji or funny meme to soften the harm of your words. That segregationist never called you ‘boy’ because you are white. If you want to boast about your relationship with a racist, you are not who we need to succeed the racist in the White House.”
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During a fundraising event in New York, the Democratic presidential candidate recounted being a member of the Senate in the 1970s with southern Democrats who opposed civil rights and desegregation.
“To coddle the reputations of segregationist of people who if they had their way I would literally not be standing here as a member of the United States Senate, is I think it’s just it’s misinformed,” California Sen. Kamala Harris told reporters.
“To suggest that individuals who literally made it their life’s work to take America back on the issue of race is a real problem for me,” Harris said.
“You don’t joke about calling black men ‘boys.’ Men like James O. Eastland used words like that, and the racist policies that accompanied them, to perpetuate white supremacy and strip black Americans of our very humanity,” Booker said in a statement.
“Vice President Biden’s relationships with proud segregationists are not the model for how we make America a safer and more inclusive place for black people, and for everyone. I have to tell Vice President Biden, as someone I respect, that he is wrong for using his relationships with Eastland and Talmadge as examples of how to bring our country together,” he added. “And frankly, I’m disappointed that he hasn’t issued an immediate apology for the pain his words are dredging up for many Americans. He should.”
Booker personally “is pissed off and disappointed” by Biden’s comments, a senior Booker campaign aide said. “The impact of those words are cutting for a lot of folks, and the fact that there wasn’t an apology issued immediately is just very disappointing to him.”
De Blasio on Twitter highlighted some of Eastland’s racist views, saying it’s “past time for apologies or evolution” from Biden and that the former vice president “repeatedly demonstrates that he is out of step with the values of the modern Democratic Party.”
And former Maryland Rep. John Delaney said, “Evoking an avowed segregationist is not the best way to make the point that we need to work together and is insensitive; we need to learn from history but we also need to be aggressive in dismantling structural racism that exists today.”
Connie Schultz, the journalist and wife of Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, tweeted: “There is no punchline here, no emoji or funny meme to soften the harm of your words. That segregationist never called you ‘boy’ because you are white. If you want to boast about your relationship with a racist, you are not who we need to succeed the racist in the White House.”
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