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Old June 26th, 2019 #44
Stewart Meadows
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Cory Booker: Joe Biden’s ‘boy’ comment ‘hurtful’ to African Americans


By Mark Moore
June 23, 2019

Sen. Cory Booker acknowledged that he and Joe Biden had a “constructive conversation” but said his fellow Democratic presidential hopeful’s use of the racially pejorative term “boy” in describing his ability to work with segregationist senators in the past was “hurtful” to the African-American community.

“This is about him invoking a terrible power dynamic that he showed a lack of understanding or insensitivity to by invoking this idea that he was called ‘son’ by white segregationists who, yeah, they see in him their son,” the New Jersey Democrat said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”

Booker said he and Biden, who he has a “tremendous amount of respect and appreciation for,” had a private conversation last Wednesday night but he felt he has a responsibility to “be candid with him, to speak truth to power.”
https://nypost.com/2019/06/23/cory-b...can-americans/