Why Some Democrats Worry About the Whiteness of Biden's Inner Circle

Nearly five years ago, Joe Biden gathered his closest advisers to decide whether he would run for president in 2016. This was a “final judgment” meeting, as he would later describe it in his memoir, and around the room were Biden’s family and more than a half-dozen of his most trusted confidants.

But for Biden, demonstrating differences with the president is not enough to drive minority voters to the polls, or a substitute for delivering an inspiring message to people of color, some activists argue. Black voters are a critical constituency for Biden and could make the difference in a razor-thin election.

“The team is not built out yet. We won the primary with a skeleton crew,” said Rep. Cedric Richmond of Louisiana, Biden’s first national co-chairman. The previous highest-ranking Latina on the Biden campaign, Vanessa Cardenas, left as national coalitions director last fall. “They didn’t expand the circle of voices that are truly making decisions,” Cardenas said in her first public comments since her departure.

Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, who took over as campaign manager in March, is said to be keenly focused on diversity, and the campaign recently hired two veteran strategists and Obama veterans, Julie Chavez Rodriguez and Karine Jean-Pierre, as senior advisers. One of the other three people of color initially announced as a senior adviser in 2019, Brandon English, has been largely disempowered.

“I believe Cristóbal is trusted,” said Rep. Tony Cárdenas of California, the chairman of the political arm of the Hispanic Caucus. “But I have yet to see he is empowered” to the same extent that Sanders granted authority to his top Latino adviser, Cárdenas said.

As stated...by the mob...they told the world their view...now there's no more need to accommodate. Do what you like, Joe. Race appearance be damned. Go all white or all black..do whatever YOU wish.

Ridiculous at this time. Be better.

Biden is a racist basically but says whatever he has to to get elected. A phony.

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