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  Black Reaction Online to Joe Biden as VP - Jack & Jill Politics
Black Reaction Online to Joe Biden as VP - Jack & Jill Politics
obama biden I’ve been poking around the blogs and papers and watching twitter, talking to friends. Overall, I’d say there’s at best a resignation factor e.g. it could have be worse. A shrug factor. A sigh. A yawn or even eye-rolling cynical sentiment among black folks. There’s a willingness to try and see the positives - Joe’s not without supporters in the black community. There’s also a ...
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Comments from Left Field — ... Related: Jack and Jill Politics rounds up a cross-section of responses to the veep announcement from POC commentators; Peter Grier ...

'Not the target demographic'
Ben Smith's Blog — ... last week that if Biden were a Republican Democrats would be all over him on race) has a good rundown of the mixed reactions across the African-American web. ...

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