Media Covers Up Joe Biden Telling Black Mayors that Black ‘Parents Can’t Read or Write’

[rangerrebew]

Media Covers Up Joe Biden Telling Black Mayors that Black ‘Parents Can’t Read or Write’

Last year, Democrat hopeful Joe Biden told a group of black mayors that black parents can’t read or write.

 
on February 15, 2020

By Warner Todd Huston
 

Last year, Democrat hopeful Joe Biden told a group of black mayors that black parents can’t read or write. Imagine if a Republican had said that regardless of any context!

Biden was speaking to a group of black mayors in Georgia in 2019, but the media only bothered to cover these remarks now, with Joe Biden’s campaign for president all but coming to an early end.

When the media thought Biden was a strong frontrunner to depose Donald Trump in 2020, the media was all hush-hush about this news. But now that Biden’s viability in on the downturn and the media understands that it needs to pump up another candidate, all of a sudden, the New York Times is FINALLY ready to report on Biden’s comments.

You can bet that if Biden was still a strong candidate, all this would have been hushed up.

https://thewashingtonsentinel.com/media-covers-up-joe-biden-telling-black-mayors-that-black-parents-cant-read-or-write/

[PeteS in CA]

Ummmm, the article doesn't quote Biden's comment. Depending on his words, his comment could be a monumentally stupid gaffe - one of Biden's special skills - or an unpleasant truth no one wanted to hear.

[Applewood]

Ok, not trusting the website in the original post, I looked for other articles on the subject (I can't access NYT anymore.)  I found this from Business Insider:

Joe Biden told a group of black mayors in 2019 that an issue in their communities is parents who 'can't read or write themselves'

Former Vice President Joe Biden told a group of black mayors in Georgia during a 2019 meeting that an issue with education reform in their communities is that "parents can't read or write themselves," The New York Times reported on Thursday.

https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-black-parents-cant-read-or-write-themselves-2020-2

The operative phrase is "in their communities" which I assume means the ghetto.  Obviously, in middle class or upper class neighborhoods, more black people are literate.  Looks like the Times and the originally posted article ignored that part, as did Biden's audience, which reportedly were upset about his remarks. 

One last thing:  The Business Insider article cited above quotes these stats on literacy broken down by ethnic groups:

According to data on adult literacy from the National Center for Education Statistics from 2014, white Americans made up 33% of low-skilled adults, with Hispanic adults accounting for 35% of the group. That year, black Americans made up 23% of low-literacy adults.

Not sure I believe this data.  Wondering whether that 23% rate of low literacy adults for blacks used data on people in neighborhoods other than poor communities.