i don't know if that's part of his calculus for not doing that this time. what do you think about that? >> well, first of all, no one is calling joe biden a racist. no one is calling the former vice president a xenophobe or a bigot, but there are a lot of us who are disappointed in his remarks. i think, for me, it's two things. first, it's extremely personal. when joe biden talks about the fact that senator eastland did not call him "boy," he called him "son," it harkens to language that is probably the most degrading term that you can use to describe any african-american male. my father, my grandfather, my uncle, cornell west can tell you about it. even cory booker can tell you about the generations of african-american men who have been called down and been degraded by the term boy. and for vice president biden not to recognize that in context is a problem. but even more importantly, i think when you invoke someone like senator eastland, who said in opposition to the bus boycott, he said at every stage