RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The nation’s first elected black governor, Virginia’s L. Douglas Wilder, lambasted Vice President Joe Biden on national television Wednesday for his remark to a largely black crowd about banks keeping people “in chains.”
Wilder, a Democrat and a grandson of slaves, echoed indignant denunciations from Republicans, including presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney, that Biden’s comment at a Tuesday rally in Danville, Va., injected race into the presidential contest.
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