Former US vice president Joe Biden says white people 'can never fully understand' racism during visit to black church

[jack_spratt]

Former Vice President and 2020 candidate Joe Biden visited a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday and told the congregation that white people "can never fully understand" institutional racism in the United States.


He had been visiting the 16th Street Baptist Church to mark the 56th anniversary of a Ku Klux Klan bombing there, which killed four black girls.

In his 20-minute speech, Biden made reference to recent attacks by white supremacists in the US, saying: "The domestic terrorism of white supremacy has been the antagonist of our highest ideals since before the founding of this country. Lynch mobs, arsonists, bomb makers, lone gunman."

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[jack_spratt]

If we all cannot even hope to understand...then why bother to engage and converse?

 

[Gingerbeardman]

If we all cannot even hope to understand...then why bother to engage and converse?

And whose fault is it that white people can't understand racism? Shouldn't they be the ones getting all the blame?

 

[Techne]

Poor guy, he must have forgotten he is white again. I wonder if his teeth fell out again when he said it.

 

[Urist]

Don't worry Biden, most of us can't fully understand your creepy affection for little girls either, and no amount of virtue signalling will cancel that out.

 

[Polymathic]

He's talking about Americans so all you snowflakes stop getting your panties in a bunch.

 

[grok]

Black church? How segregated..

 

[Mila]

Come to south africa.
Here you will experience it perfectly, you can even experience black on white racism and xenophobia ( black on black Racism) in one day.

 

[access]

so he doesnt fully understand what hes talking about. thats pretty funny.

 

[yebocan]

If you are man, you will never truly understand the challenges that females face, in society
Same goes for race, gender...sexuality...those with disability .... if you form part of a prevailing power system , you are generally oblivious to the struggles of those that are not part of it....and will never be able to fully understand their struggles.

 

[Vrotappel]

Black church? How segregated..

It is not apartheid when blacks does it.

 

[rambo919]

No need to understand anything, just don't be an arrogant ass-hat and most problems solve themselves.

 

[cerebus]

He's right, although I'm not sure why jack_spratt thought it warranted a whole new thread

 

[prod]

It is not apartheid when blacks does it.

Don't be retarded

 

[konfab]

If you are man, you will never truly understand the challenges that females face, in society
Same goes for race, gender...sexuality...those with disability .... if you form part of a prevailing power system , you are generally oblivious to the struggles of those that are not part of it....and will never be able to fully understand their struggles.

And who gets to define how much "power" people have, and thus how much they should be listened to? The problem with your statement is that it is a stupid generalisation, as this picture very aptly shows.

They talk about how good their pies are, though not giving any to a seemingly hungry beggar.

Matewu’s friend asks: “Did you notice that in the old days when white people used to eat burgers, we used to fear them to an extent that we would offer them serviettes to wipe their mouths?”


Matewu responds: “Here’s a white man who has no respect. We’re eating and he’s staring at us. In the old days, we never starred at them when they ate burgers, because they would say, ‘hey, you ka**ir’. Even if this white man stares at us, we won’t give him the burger,” to which his friend responds: “This is what we were taught by them.”

https://citizen.co.za/news/south-af...s-video-making-fun-of-white-beggar-backfires/

 

[konfab]

He's right, although I'm not sure why jack_spratt thought it warranted a whole new thread

And then you are shocked when Trump wins in 2020.

 

[cerebus]

And then you are shocked when Trump wins in 2020.

Oh I'll be shocked at humanity if Trump wins 2020. But it's not the point.

 

[konfab]

Oh I'll be shocked at humanity if Trump wins 2020. But it's not the point.

Biden represented the best chance the Democrats have to get the voters in places like Pennsylvania which won Trump's presidency.

He has just lost these voters, turns out that calling white people uncaring racists doesn't make them vote for you.

 

[cerebus]

Biden represented the best chance the Democrats have to get the voters in places like Pennsylvania which won Trump's presidency.

He has just lost these voters, turns out that calling white people uncaring racists doesn't make them vote for you.

He didn't call anyone an uncaring racist. That's a total mischaracterization of what he said.

 

[Jola]

Don't be retarded

Well, that is according to the SA Human Rights Commission.