If you are a Democrat, you can crack slavery jokes. Considering that the Democrats are the party of slavery it’s not really a surprise.
| Biden cracked slavery joke, called himself young, new white knight in ’73 |
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It was at this point that Biden steered the conversation to campaign finance reform with an indelicate joke about slaves.
“We all came here, with the exception of a few of my brothers who were forced to come,” Biden said, referencing slavery. “We all came here because we didn’t like it where it was, because power had corrupted …. [but] inherent in the system that we have to run for elective office is corruption within the law.”
Referring to himself in the third-person as a “young new white knight,” Biden told the story of how he raised nearly $300,000 for his 1972 Senate race. Although he said most of the money came from small-dollar donors, he conceded that was not his initial preference.
“It’s not because I’m particularly moral, it’s because nobody took me seriously,” Biden said. “Had in the beginning, when I started, big corporations or big labor, or big wealthy individuals, or big anybody come along and said, ‘here Biden we want to contribute $20,000 to you,’ I probably would have taken it.”