After Vice President Joe Biden infamously told an audience that Mitt
Romney is “going to unchain Wall Street,” and concluded they are “going
to put y’all back in chains,” Mr. Romney’s campaign cried foul. This was
an obvious and unfair allusion to slavery, Mr. Romney’s surrogates
argued.
Well, count veteran Congressman Charlie Rangel among Mr. Biden’s critics on the Democratic side of the aisle.
“The Vice President said he’s going to put “y’all in chains,” Mr. Rangel told The Perez Notes
in a recent free-wheeling interview. “Was he talking about slavery? You
bet your ass he was. Was he using the vernacular? Yes, he was. Did he
think it was cute? Yes, he did. Was it something stupid to say? You bet
your life it was stupid.”
“It was something that if a black had
said it, we would have been laughing, because we would know deep down,
they may be beating the hell out of us but they ain’t thinking about
putting us into any chains,” he added. (Continues)
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