That's the point that Biden's trying to make, he sees a commonality between him and Mr. Paige as he finally got to be President at 78 and keeps trying to sell people on the idea that he can actually do something meaningful. This is the same talking point he used with the Pope recently.
As ungraceful as it is to fail to compose a sentence on the spot by thinking about Paige and the Negro League and fucking up which word Negro was modifying before clumsily correcting himself, this is less racist, than say, when he praised Obama as the first African American in politics that was "clean" and "articulate".
That's the point that Biden's trying to make, he sees a commonality between him and Mr. Paige as he finally got to be President at 78 and keeps trying to sell people on the idea that he can actually do something meaningful. This is the same talking point he used with the Pope recently.
As ungraceful as it is to fail to compose a sentence on the spot by thinking about Paige and the Negro League and fucking up which word Negro was modifying before clumsily correcting himself, this is less racist, than say, when he praised Obama as the first African American in politics that was "clean" and "articulate".