KNOWLES: Race, Rape, And Murder. Oh My.
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KNOWLES: Race, Rape, And Murder. Oh My.

Michael Knowles

Joe Biden informed 40 million black Americans that, if they even consider voting to re-elect President Trump, they “ain’t black.” The mainstream media rushed to defend the presumptive Democratic nominee, insisting alternately that the comments did not matter, were meant as a joke, and were eclipsed by an overreaction.

Democratic representative Sheila Jackson Lee denied that Biden ever made the comments. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times fabulist Hannah Jones defended Joe by distinguishing between being “racially black” and “politically black.”

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