What Joe Biden meant about Barak Obama

He meant cleans up as in he's not a nigger. Let's just get the word out there right now.

But that's eactly what he meant. That's why Jesse Jackson has never been a real nationaly viable candidate and why Colin Powell was, and now Obama. It's exactly what he meant. His problem was in trying to make it sound polite when he shouldn't have said it at all.

Even Powell himself, when asked about his national appeal, basicaly said because he was not that 'black,' meaning both in color and speaking. He mentioned both specificaly, that he was light skinned and was articulate.

If anything, conservatives should be defending Biden because, as they could plausibly argue, a black man like Powell can say that and everybody nods in silent, respectfull agreement. But a white man like Biden says it and all the sudden he's a racist bigot.

And what this truly speaks to is white America's continued inability to put racial and ethnic stereotypes behind them and judge people as they are and not how they look or sound. We are a very superficial celebrity culture, not to mention the inherent bigotry that comes from simply being human beings.

That is the problem here, society and it's stereotypes. Hell, Biden's a prophet far as I'm concerned.