Epoch Times - Joe Biden is Here to Tell You If You’re Black Enough | Larry Elder
Aired: 2021-01-14
Duration: 14:12


=== Black Voice, Black Choice (02:04) ===

[00:00:03]  Some people can't tell if black people are black enough.
[00:00:07]  Fortunately, there's Joe Biden.
[00:00:10]  But I tell it, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump and you ain't black.
[00:00:15]  It don't have nothing to do with Trump.
[00:00:17]  It has to do with the fact I want something for my community.
[00:00:20]  What?
[00:00:21]  Did he just say?
[00:00:24]  But I tell it, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump and you ain't black.
[00:00:29]  I think the vice president misrepresented what the vice president wanted to say.
[00:00:33]  Hours later, Mr.
[00:00:35]  Biden expressed regrets.
[00:00:38]  In a call with the U.S. Black Chamber of Commerce this afternoon, Biden said he should not have been so cavalier.
[00:00:45]  The last thing I want to do, and I shouldn't have been such a wise guy, I shouldn't have been so cavalier in responding to what I thought was, anyway, it was, I don't take it for granted at all, and no one No one should have to vote for any party based on their race, their religion, their background.
[00:01:05]  No, you see, Joe is down with the cause.
[00:01:08]  Just because you're black doesn't mean you're black if you're not really black.
[00:01:13]  You know.
[00:01:15]  If you are not prepared to come to that table and to represent that voice, don't come.
[00:01:22]  Because we don't need any more brown faces that don't want to be a brown voice.
[00:01:28]  We don't need black faces that don't want to be a black voice.
[00:01:31]  We don't need Muslims that don't want to be a Muslim voice.
[00:01:34]  We don't need queers that don't want to be a queer voice.
[00:01:36]  And if you're worried about being marginalized and stereotyped, please don't even show up.
[00:01:42]  This is from a website that collects stories from young people.
[00:01:45]  This is from a young black teenager who was taunted as being an Oreo.
[00:01:50]  As in brown on the outside, white on the inside.

=== Why Are You an Oreo? (11:07) ===

[00:01:54]  Gabby, why are you such an Oreo?
[00:01:56]  One of the girls in my 8th grade class asked out of the blue.
[00:02:00]  An Oreo is a term that is used to describe black people who act in ways that are not stereotypically associated with black culture.
[00:02:08]  They are labeled as being white on the inside, black on the outside.
[00:02:14]  I was a goody two-shoes and one of the highest achieving kids in the class, so other kids called me Oreo too.
[00:02:20]  I enjoyed reading fantasy novels and Edgar Allan Poe.
[00:02:23]  After I switched schools to one that was more diverse, I was never referred to as Oreo again.
[00:02:30]  I think those girls called me an Oreo because they didn't know that the stereotypes of what black girls are like are far from the truth.
[00:02:38]  There is no one way to be black.
[00:02:41]  There is only one way to be yourself.
[00:02:44]  And in the eighth grade, I had not realized that yet." And some white people can't tell whether somebody's black or African American.
[00:02:54]  I think that, listen, I think that she's got a lot of strengths here.
[00:02:57]  She is.
[00:02:58]  She's got a bio.
[00:02:59]  She's got a record.
[00:03:00]  She's a prosecutor with a heart.
[00:03:01]  She's got a lot to deal with keeping people out of recidivism.
[00:03:04]  Is she seen as African American?
[00:03:06]  Is she seen as African American?
[00:03:07]  Is the organization that she pulls up?
[00:03:09]  Yes, I think she's seen as African American.
[00:03:11]  The fact she was at Howard University today, One of the oldest.
[00:03:14]  They call themselves the oldest.
[00:03:15]  I went to Morehouse.
[00:03:16]  I think we're a little bit older.
[00:03:17]  But she's at Howard University today when she did her announcement at a press conference.
[00:03:23]  She's going to South Carolina in the first week.
[00:03:25]  Yes.
[00:03:26]  She's really planting her feet in the African American community.
[00:03:29]  I think she's going to be a very strong candidate.
[00:03:32]  Went to Howard?
[00:03:33]  So therefore she's black?
[00:03:35]  Don't laugh.
[00:03:36]  You know, you can go into Howard White and come out black.
[00:03:39]  Ask Rachel Dolezal.
[00:03:41]  More new developments in the Rachel Dolezal case.
[00:03:44]  Documents published online today show that she has a long history of claiming discrimination, but not always as an African American.
[00:03:52]  In a case filed more than a decade ago, Dolezal said she was targeted not because she was black, but because she was white.
[00:04:02]  You've sent mixed signals over the years.
[00:04:04]  Are you an African American woman?
[00:04:07]  I identify as black.
[00:04:09]  Now, this gentleman, also known as Joe Biden's old boss, also said there's no one way to be black.
[00:04:14]  In fact, he was attacked for not being black enough by his former Congressional House opponent, Bobby Rush, who's still in Congress as we speak.
[00:04:23]  Obama said,"...when Congressman Rush and his allies attack me for going to Harvard and teaching at the University of Chicago, they are sending a signal to black kids that if you're well-educated, somehow you're not keeping it real." Be confident in your blackness.
[00:04:45]  One of the great changes that's occurred in our country since I was your age is the realization there's no one way to be black.
[00:04:57]  Oh, Stewardess, I speak jive.
[00:04:59]  Oh, good.
[00:05:00]  He said that he's in great pain and he wants to know if you can help him.
[00:05:05]  All right.
[00:05:05]  Would you tell him to just relax and I'll be back as soon as I can with some medicine.
[00:05:12]  Just hang loose blood.
[00:05:14]  She gonna catch up on the rebound on the med side.
[00:05:16]  What it is, big mama.
[00:05:17]  My mama gonna raise no dummies.
[00:05:18]  And some whites just head to their bets, you know, cover their bases.
[00:05:32]  This is the full exchange with the host, Charlemagne, who asked him about his record with African Americans and was pressing him on having a woman of color, an African American, as his running mate.
[00:05:45]  Let's watch.
[00:05:46]  What?
[00:05:47]  Did you catch that?
[00:05:50]  Listen to it again.
[00:05:51]  This is the full exchange with the host, Charlemagne, who asked him about his record with African Americans and was pressing him on having a woman of color, an African American, as his running mate.
[00:06:04]  Let's watch.
[00:06:05]  Did you see the graphic?
[00:06:07]  So we have two African Americans and one woman of color.
[00:06:11]  Fortunately, we also have Joe Biden.
[00:06:15]  Bang!
[00:06:16]  Wall Street.
[00:06:20]  They're gonna put y'all back in chains.
[00:06:24]  I mean, if you're white, what do you do?
[00:06:32]  African-American, people of color, black!
[00:06:37]  And I saw a man run down the block.
[00:06:39]  Can you describe it?
[00:06:41]  Well, he was, uh...
[00:06:42]  Yeah?
[00:06:43]  He was, uh...
[00:06:44]  Black?
[00:06:45]  He happened to be black.
[00:06:48]  I'm sorry.
[00:06:49]  Next time we'll be white.
[00:06:51]  Maybe Chinese.
[00:06:53]  Fortunately, there's Joe Biden.
[00:06:56]  I mean, you got the first sort of mainstream frickin' American who was articulate and bright and clean and nice-looking guy.
[00:07:08]  I mean, that's a storybook, man.
[00:07:11]  I mean, some white people are just perplexed.
[00:07:16]  Joining me now to talk about this and the nation's real problem of joblessness, the Reverend Al Sharpton.
[00:07:21]  What's your reaction to hearing someone say, you know, when it comes to income inequality, all's well.
[00:07:27]  The rising tide floats all boats.
[00:07:31]  I'm Reverend Jesse Jackson.
[00:07:34]  Right.
[00:07:34]  You know, I'm so sorry.
[00:07:36]  The script in front of me said, Reverend Al Sharpton, I'm looking at your face.
[00:07:39]  I know who you are, Reverend Jackson.
[00:07:40]  We all do.
[00:07:41]  I'm sorry.
[00:07:44]  Fortunately, there's Joe Biden.
[00:07:47]  We have this notion that somehow if you're poor, you cannot do it.
[00:07:51]  Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.
[00:07:56]  Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids.
[00:07:59]  Think how we think about it.
[00:08:02]  And some people couldn't care less about racial political correctness.
[00:08:08]  Konnichiwa's Japanese.
[00:08:10]  It's insulting to Koreans.
[00:08:12]  How am I supposed to tell if you can?
[00:08:13]  What's that supposed to mean, white boy?
[00:08:16]  It means you've got eyes like apostrophes.
[00:08:18]  You dress white, talk black, and drive Jews.
[00:08:20]  So how am I supposed to know what kind of zipper-head dog-munching dink you are if you don't?
[00:08:25]  Confused?
[00:08:26]  Fortunately, there's Joe Biden.
[00:08:28]  - Hello, Benish.
[00:08:30]  - Benish, how are you?
[00:08:31]  - Well, good to see you.
[00:08:33]  As you know, I've got a lot of support from you, Sydney.
[00:08:36]  - That's where... - I've had more to come, I think.
[00:08:39]  - No, I've had a great relationship.
[00:08:41]  In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian Americans moving from India.
[00:08:46]  You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.
[00:08:54]  I'm not joking.
[00:08:56]  I think the vice president misrepresented what the vice president wanted to say.
[00:08:59]  Even blacks don't know what to call blacks who think they are black but are not necessarily perceived as being black by other blacks or by other African Americans.
[00:09:09]  Number one, what does black enough mean?
[00:09:11]  Can someone give me a definition of what black enough is?
[00:09:15]  I don't want to go down the road of the stereotype when people say we're black.
[00:09:18]  Number one, she is a black woman.
[00:09:20]  She's a mixed race woman.
[00:09:21]  When you see her, you see her blackness.
[00:09:24]  But she is also South Asian.
[00:09:25]  Her mom is South Asian and her dad is Jamaican.
[00:09:28]  April, April, April.
[00:09:29]  Let me listen.
[00:09:30]  More power to her.
[00:09:32]  And I think it's great.
[00:09:33]  That should be enough.
[00:09:36]  Listen, it is enough that she's a black woman.
[00:09:37]  We are not a model.
[00:09:38]  No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[00:09:40]  They did the same thing.
[00:09:41]  No, no, no, no, no.
[00:09:42]  I think you're not hearing what people are saying.
[00:09:45]  The people who are saying, is she black enough?
[00:09:47]  That's bull.
[00:09:47]  That's BS.
[00:09:48]  But to want a distinction to say, is she African-American or is she black or is she whatever?
[00:09:58]  There is nothing wrong with that.
[00:10:00]  There is a difference between being African-American and being black.
[00:10:04]  Latino people are people of color, but they're not black.
[00:10:09]  They're brown people.
[00:10:10]  She is a woman of color, but she is a black woman.
[00:10:12]  I agree with that.
[00:10:14]  I agree with that, but is she African-American?
[00:10:17]  No, no, no, no, no.
[00:10:18]  But is she African-American?
[00:10:19]  There's a difference.
[00:10:20]  There's nothing wrong with that.
[00:10:21]  No one is trying to take anything away from her.
[00:10:24]  Let's go down into her lineage.
[00:10:24]  I think you're falling into a trap of that.
[00:10:27]  All she had to do was say, I am black, but I'm not African-American.
[00:10:30]  That's it.
[00:10:34]  And then there's Joe Biden.
[00:10:37]  This election year, the choice is clear.
[00:10:40]  One man stands ready to deliver change we desperately need.
[00:10:44]  A man I'm proud to call my friend.
[00:10:47]  A man who will be the next president of the United States, Barack America.
[00:10:53]  Some blacks don't want to be called African American, even though other blacks call them African American.
[00:11:00]  I love being black.
[00:11:02]  I love being called black.
[00:11:04]  I love being an American.
[00:11:07]  I love being a black American.
[00:11:08]  And some whites, under certain circumstances, prefer to be black or African-American, at least temporarily.
[00:11:16]  What are you doing here?
[00:11:23]  I'm getting bad.
[00:11:24]  You better get bad, Jack, because you ain't bad.
[00:11:27]  You're going to get.
[00:11:28]  You're bad.
[00:11:29]  They don't mess with you.
[00:11:33]  Hey, home.
[00:11:34]  Get down.
[00:11:34]  Hey.
[00:11:37]  You're a little too bad, aren't you?
[00:11:40]  Fortunately, there's Joe Biden.
[00:11:44]  And by the way, you know, I sit on the stand and it get hot.
[00:11:47]  I got hairy legs that turn blonde in the sun.
[00:11:56]  And the kids used to come up and reach in the pool and rub my leg down so it was straight and then watch the hair come back up again.
[00:12:05]  They'd look at it.
[00:12:06]  So I learned about roaches.
[00:12:07]  I learned about kids jumping on my lap.
[00:12:09]  And I've loved kids jumping on my lap.
[00:12:12]  I mean, you'd have to ask Senator Biden what he was saying.
[00:12:18]  Finally, who needs Joe You Ain't Black Biden when we have Chris Don't Call Me Fredo Cuomo.
[00:12:26]  Remember what he said?
[00:12:29]  I thought that's who you were.
[00:12:30]  My name is Chris Cuomo.
[00:12:34]  I'm an anchor on CNN. Fredo is from the Godfather.
[00:12:38]  He was our weak brother.
[00:12:39]  And they used it as an Italian dispersion.
[00:12:41]  Any of you Italian?
[00:12:44]  It's a insult to your people.

=== History Of The Democratic Party (01:26) ===

[00:12:46]  It's an insult to your people.
[00:12:48]  It's like the N-word for us.
[00:12:50]  Now this daredevil has come up with an ingenious way to determine who is really black enough.
[00:12:56]  Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Rex Kramer, danger seeker.
[00:13:01]  Fredo!
[00:13:21]  Say what the fuck is that damn b****!
[00:13:23]  Who needs Joe Biden?
[00:13:29]  Now remember, my documentary Uncle Tom comes out on June 19th.
[00:13:34]  Go to UncleTom.com.
[00:13:35]  Check out three trailers.
[00:13:37]  Here's one.
[00:13:38]  Most people are completely oblivious to the history of the Democratic Party.
[00:13:41]  The party of slavery.
[00:13:42]  The history of the Democratic Party.
[00:13:44]  Jim Crow laws.
[00:13:44]  They're erasing them.
[00:14:09]  I'm Larry Elder, and we've got a country to save.