Biden Vows To Ease Racial Divisions. Here's His Record
Joe Biden says he's running for president to ease the racial divisions of our time.
He says he resolved to run after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017. Pledging to recover "the soul of America" from the polarizing Trump era, the 77-year-old white man won the Democratic nomination with the endorsements of many Black lawmakers and strong backing from Black voters. He has a unique place in American politics, both for serving as the running mate of the first Black president, and for choosing as his own running mate the first woman of color on a national ticket.
In September's presidential debate, he called President Trump a "racist" who uses "dog-whistle" language.
Trump, who insisted in the same debate that racial sensitivity training is itself "racist," launched his campaign in 2015 with an attack on Mexicans as "rapists," his way of promoting the immigration policies he has pursued ever since. He called for banning Muslims from entering the United States, told American lawmakers who are not white to "go back" where they came from and defended Confederate statues. Yet in the debate, Trump managed to question his opponent's views on race by digging into Biden's past.
"You did a crime bill, 1994, where you call them super predators — — and they've
