Rep. Charlie Rangel: Biden Made a Stupid Reference to Slavery Because He Thought it Was Cute
Most Democrats have been at least somewhat supportive of Vice President Biden’s controversial remark about Republicans wanting to put black people back in chains, but it now looks as if that trend is over. 
At a campaign rally in Virginia, Biden said “Look at their budget, and what they are proposing,” continuing, “Romney wants to let–he said in the first hundred days, he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules. Unchain Wall Street.”
Biden then paused, and said, “they going to put y’all back in chains.”
Rev. Al Sharpton was only mildly critical, saying “I think it was, I think he used the wrong term, I think he might have been over the top. But what, hateful? If he was referring to the middle class, even in front of a black audience, I don’t know how you make that hateful.”
Newark Mayor Cory Booker blamed the media, saying “this is really what I recoil about in where our politics is getting now……..and is being fueled by Super PAC money, is being fueled by a media that becomes obsessed with sound bites rather than substance. Every single week now, from both sides, we seem to be running on ten-second clips of sound bites and ignoring substance. Please, I beg America, listen to the whole speech by the Vice President. Don’t let the sound bites that the media is presenting to you affect your mind. Listen to the whole speech. This was a substantive speech about how we’re going to reform Wall street, about how we’re going to protect consumers, about how we’re going to stop the over-leveraging of banks, about how we’re going to create a consumer bill of rights, a credit card bill of rights and how we’re go against predatory lending. All of that is the substantive things that my majority black city in Newark is concerned with. These are the real substantive issues that the media and that the sound bite politics is distracting us from.”
Now Congressman Rangel has joined the chorus,offering some of the most severe criticism to date.
“The Vice President said he’s going to put “y’all in chains,” Rangel said in a radio interview. “Was he talking about slavery? You bet your a*s he was. Was he using the vernacular? Yes, he was. Did he think it was cute? Yes, he did. Was it something stupid to say? You bet your life it was stupid.”
“It was something that if a black had said it, we would have been laughing, because we would know deep down, they may be beating the h**l out of us but they ain’t thinking about putting us into any chains,” Rangel continued.
Whether you agree with Rangel or not, it’s good to know that he still speaks his mind.
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The Republicans/Tea Party been saying they want to take us back so when I think of back I think of chains and a lot of more stuff.
When the Biden said chains d**n it don’t have to be real chains but d**n it now we could be in chains mentally.
Since I have been actively engaged in politics since the late 80′s it never seems to amaze me how some black folks deal politically. I am so d**n glad that I have been actively engaged in politics for years so I can make informed decisions and opinions for myself and do not have to rely on other black folks to totally think for me.
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Romney has ludicrously been called racist for referring to his kitchen cabinet, a term used as far back as Thomas Jefferson, as well as attacked for shortening “Obama’s policies aren’t working” to the easier “Obama Isn’t Working”.
It’s certainly fair to call out the other side for their words.
Vice- President Biden did not make a mistake; he is an insider and he have heard things that we are not privy to. Look at the most recent brief place before the Supreme Court concern the GOP wanting to overturn a portion of the Voting Rights Act. Also look at the Voter’s ID laws that are are being voted in in many states; if this is not a form of poll tax then what is it? Be careful if you are simply sitting and doing nothing and believing those things that are being told to you. Seek out and adhere to the policies that are being place into effect. I teach, “Use the system and make it work for you.” When you ignore the system, whether or not you think that it is wrong, you are allowing it to do exactly what many want you to do.
Joe Biden is a clown…This is not his first idiotic statement & won’t be his last…..If DEMS are smart, they will bring in Hillary or Panetta off the bench ASAP…..
Biden is spot on. The republicans are throwing everything at African Americans, The Edlerly, and Immigrants to suppress votes, change laws, and attempt to make their idea of an Utopian America that places the abovementioned group into a sub-class with less privilege. So having said this, yes Vice-President Biden is correct. If you see and witness change going on before your very eyes, then change is happening. And it appears as if the abovementioned group are losing ground. We have come too far to go backwards NOW. I say h**l NO to this maddness the republicans and far right wingers are trying to incorporate and FIGHT BACK before its too late! I want my right to vote. It is not a privilege, it is a human right….. Don’t let them do this. We’re not going to take this. No we are not going to take this anymore!
It’s the Truth! If Black people do not go out to vote we will be enslave economically and chained economically if we do not get out to vote. Some of the Black pastors need to get past the gay thing and look at the big picture Medicare, other finanicial issues.