O’Rourke: Either Biden Doesn’t ‘Understand’ State of Affairs, or He Needs to Explain Segregationist Remarks Better

On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation,” 2020 presidential candidate former Congressman Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) reacted to fellow 2020 Democrat former Vice President Joe Biden’s comments on working with segregationist senators by saying that Biden either doesn’t “understand” the state of affairs, or “may have to explain a little bit better what he meant by that remark.”

O’Rourke said, “I don’t know that I fully understand his statement. To somehow explain the impasse that we’ve seen, or the gross discrimination that many Americans have experienced that’s resulted in the largest prison population on the face of the planet, one that is disproportionately comprised of people of color, or the fact that there’s ten times the wealth in white America than black America. That’s not a function of a lack of civility or bipartisanship. That is racism, which is foundational and fundamental, and still systemic today in 2019. So, either the vice president does not understand that, or may have to explain a little bit better what he meant by that remark.”

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