Joe Biden had to walk back a gaffe in which he said that there is a lack of ideological diversity in the black community in the United States. But for Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler, the gaffe never happened.
Yesterday, presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden had to walk back a gaffe in which he said that there is a lack of ideological diversity in the black community in the United States. But for Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler, the gaffe never happened.
What happened was that Biden said "By the way, what you all know but most people don't know, unlike the African American community with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things."
And then Biden reversed course with a non-apology that clarified how he really felt about the African American community.
Despite Joe Biden acknowledging his racist gaffe himself, Kessler's gaslighting tweet suggesting that Biden didn't say what he said remains up.
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