Joe Biden: White America Has To Admit There Is Systemic Racism
At National Action’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast, the former vice president addressed the racism that goes “almost unnoticed by so many of us.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden said at a breakfast Monday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. that “white America has to admit there is systemic racism.”
Biden, a potential 2020 presidential candidate, said at the event hosted by Al Sharpton’s National Action Network that “we have a lot to root out, but most of all the systematic racism that most of us whites don’t like to acknowledge even exists.” He gave the example of if there are two men with the same qualifications, one named Jamal and one named Jim, and “Jim gets the job,” then “there is something we have to admit ― not you, we, white America has to admit: There is still systematic racism.”
“It goes almost unnoticed by so many of us. When all that is surrounding us, is it any wonder that there is still a spirit of restlessness out there? How do we ensure that every American can live a life of dignity?” he asked the mostly black audience.
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