Biden feels it necessary to lie about himself when among African Americans. He adopts
verbiage and a speaking cadence foreign to his own that he presumably thinks allows him to fit in with people with whom he clearly does not. His oration drifts into demagoguery, a comment about him but more so about his low opinion of his audience. Yes, the Detroit speech presents a politician dangerous to leave alone in front of a camera without a script. More so does it display that politician’s awkwardness around African Americans.
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