“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.”
That was Joe Biden’s perfectly sensible comment, from 1975, to a question about responsibility for segregation. In last night’s debate, Biden was asked to explain his remarks, and the woke-ists are very, very upset about the answer he gave.
First, Biden uncontroversially pointed to the institutional oppression that had arisen in the centuries after slavery; redlining, banks, and education. Most of this had not come into existence during Biden’s lifetime. He also expressed support for increased funding for psychologists and social workers, to help close the racial gap that exists. This was the part of the answer that had the Left in an uproar and President Trump trolling with glee:
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