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Boy, it called him son, it hearkens to language that is probably the most degrading term 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. for vice-president biden to not recognize that in context is a problem. but even more importantly, i think when you invoke someone like senator easterland who said in opposition to the busboy cot, he said in every stage of the bus boycott, we have be...

White men. and he's gotten quite a bit of pushback for that, including from other people running for president and other individuals, even across the aisle, who think that the former vice president has romanticized these individuals. >> yeah, he said among his other comments the senators didn't call him boy but they called him son. his point was, i think, that he was able to do business with them. so this developed all today. there's now a cory booker-joe biden subplot. here in order is joe biden as captured by a cbs camera crew in suburban maryland tonight, followed by cory booker as intervie...

And he looked -- he shot back and pointed back, should i say, to his career in the senate and noted that he has worked with people he viewed very different politically including some white supremacists, some segregationists, some lawmakers who advocated for policies that did not benefit black americans or people who just were not white men. and he's gotten quite a bit of pushback for that, including from other people running for president and other individuals, even across the aisle, who think that the former vice president has romanticized these individuals. >> yeah, he said among his other c...

President communicating to his supporters. he wants to be a unifier, not a divisive president. and he looked -- he shot back and pointed back, should i say, to his career in the senate and noted that he has worked with people he viewed very different politically including some white supremacists, some segregationists, some lawmakers who advocated for policies that did not benefit black americans or people who just were not white men. and he's gotten quite a bit of pushback for that, including from other people running for president and other individuals, even across the aisle, who think that t...

Inartful and inarticulate. i don't know that he apologized -- i don't know that he should apologize for what he said. i don't think either that senator booker should apologize for what he said. >> and one of the points that senator booker makes, it revolves around the connotation of the word "boy" that you heard the former vice president saying that senator eastland didn't call him boy, he called him son. cory bok ebooker has made the p that this has a connotation with the african-american community, specifically black men. does biden need to be more thoughtful in how he talks about things lik...