In the second hour of the debate, ABC correspondent Linsey Davis asked Biden to reflect on a remark he made in the 1970s: “I don’t feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather. I feel responsible for what the situation is today, for the sins of my own generation, and I’ll be damned if I feel responsible to pay for what happened 300 years ago.”
Davis said to Biden, “You said that some 40 years ago, but as you stand here tonight, what responsibility do you think that Americans need to take to repair the legacy of slavery in our country?”
Biden: “Well, they have to deal with—look, there’s institutional segregation in this country. And from the time I got involved, I started dealing with that. Red lining, banks, making sure we are in a position where — look, you talk about education. I propose that what we take is those very poor schools, the Title I schools, triple the amount of money we spend from $15 to $45 billion a year. Give every single teacher a raise to the equal raise of, getting out—the $60,000 level.
Number two, make sure that we bring in to help the teachers deal with the problems that come from home. The problems that come from home, we need — we have one school psychologist for every 1,500 kids in America today. It’s crazy. The teachers are — I’m married to a teacher, my deceased wife is a teacher. They have every problem coming to them. We have to make sure that every single child does, in fact, have 3, 4 and 5-year-olds go to school. School. Not day care, school.
We bring social workers in to homes and parents, to help them deal with how to raise their children. It’s not that they don’t want to help, they don’t know quite what to do. Play the radio, make sure the television — excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night, the phone — make sure that kids hear words, a kid coming from a very poor school — a very poor background will hear 4 million words fewer spoken by the time they get there. There’s so much –“
Moderator: “Thank you, Mr. Vice president. “
Biden: “No, I’m going to go like the rest of them do, twice over. Okay? Because here’s the deal. The deal is that we’ve got this a little backwards. And by the way, in Venezuela, we should be allowing people to come here from Venezuela. I know Maduro. I’ve confronted Maduro. Number two, you talk about the need to do something in Latin America. I’m the guy that came up with $740 million, to see to it those three countries, in fact, changed their system so people don’t have a chance to leave. You’re all acting like we just discovered this yesterday. Thank you very much.”
https://theintercept.com/2019/09/13/joe ... e-slavery/The thoroughly racist paternalism came at the end of Biden’s answer, at which point many viewers had likely zoned out. It was not adequately highlighted in post-debate coverage, so it’s worth taking a closer look at.
In response to a question on the legacy of slavery, Biden said: “We bring social workers into homes of parents to help them deal with how to raise their children. It’s not that they don’t want to help, they don’t want — they don’t know quite what to do.”
Den linksgerichteten fällt jetzt langsam auf, was für einen rassistischen Vizepräsidenten sie die letzten 8 Jahre unter Obama hatten.
Kompletter Wortsalat.
Also erfinden brauchen die Demokraten sicherlich keine Skandale. Trump ist so ein Lügner und korrumpiert so offen Leute um sich persönliche Vorteile zu verschaffen, dass es einem den Atem verschlägt. Ukraine war scheinbar nur ein Beispiel. Gerade eben hat er bekannt gegeben das G7-Treffen bei sich "zuhause" - in einem seiner Golf-Ressorts - statt finden zu lassen. Wer daran wohl etwas verdient? So unverhohlene Selbstbereicherung kennt man normalerweise nur von Diktatoren aus der 3. Welt. Wenn man sich überlegt was für Ärger Bill Clinton hatte, nur weil er sich mal einen blasen ließ und das zum Maßstab nimmt...
mhhh...). in der Geschichte der USA war es meistens so, dass die Reps mehr Schulden gemacht haben als die Demokraten.
