As the Democrat frontrunner, Joe Biden is running for president on the promise that he will be unifying and positive for different groups of Americans, especially people of color.
Like other Democrats, Biden talks a good game, but his history is troublesome to many people. The former vice president has a past of not only working with segregationist senators, but also one of facilitating the mass incarceration of African-Americans.
This is a reality that Biden can’t escape, no matter how much he falsely calls Trump a racist.
Reviewing Biden’s Participation in the Era of Mass Incarceration
In the 90s, Joe Biden happily worked with then-President Bill Clinton on crime laws that significantly impacted the black community. The aforementioned segregationist senators that Biden worked with helped write laws that engendered mandatory minimum sentences, elimination of parole/pardons, and the like.
Biden’s participation in the era of mass incarceration furthermore entailed pushing back against busing to schools and support of 1986’s Anti-Drug Abuse Act. The former vice president is also on record for rhetoric such as “lock the S.O.B.s up” and “we need more prisons.”
