This isn’t about a hoodie. It’s about a culture that sees a problem with a kid wearing a hoodie in the first place. Our nominee needs to have the language to talk about race in a far more constructive way. https://t.co/c2BFSSOHro
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) June 28, 2019
Biden is going to get eaten alive.
Via Fox News:
Sen. Cory Booker accused Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden on Friday of not having the right “language” to talk about race that’s needed to win the party’s 2020 nomination.
Booker’s comment came after Biden spoke about race relations in the U.S. during an appearance in Chicago earlier in the day.
“That kid wearing a hoodie may very well be the next poet laureate and not a gangbanger,” Biden said, making a rhetorical point during his remarks at the headquarters of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a group of nonprofits organized by the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
But Booker, an African-American senator from New Jersey, took issue with Biden’s use of the word “hoodie.”
“This isn’t about a hoodie,” Booker wrote on Twitter. “It’s about a culture that sees a problem with a kid wearing a hoodie in the first place. Our nominee needs to have the language to talk about race in a far more constructive way.”