Censured Congressman and noted tax cheat Charlie Rangel certainly knows race baiting when he hears it, and he recently heard it from the Vice President of the United States:
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.
Didn't Rangel get the intelligence-insulting memo from the very top?
Obama, speaking to PEOPLE in Dubuque, Iowa, seemed unrattled by the controversy. He said Biden’s words needed to be considered in context; that he was only saying “you, consumers, the American people, will be a lot worse off if we repeal these [Wall Street reform] laws as the other side is suggesting. In no sense was he trying to connote something other than that,” Obama added.
Biden changed his accent to proclaim, "they gon' put y'all back in chains!" in front of an audience in a heavily African-American city:
Rangel, and virtually everyone else on planet earth, understood exactly what Biden was doing. But remember folks, the president is telling his supporters that Republicans are the ones "playing dirty" during this election. Yeah. Sure they are.