Shelby Steele: 'Biden Is Committing the Great American Sin -- Using Race as a Means to Power'

With the vacancy on the Supreme Court a part of presidential politics in the late stages of the 2020 election cycle, former Vice President Joe Biden’s pledge to put a Black female on the high court back in February is being revisited.

Author and Hoover Institution senior fellow Shelby Steele says that pledge from Biden broke his heart, given it cheapens the work of those involved in the civil rights struggle to use race in a political campaign to achieve power.

There are Blacks who really resent comments Biden has made — you know, you’re not Black if you don’t vote for him, and this sort of thing where he is arrogant about the reflexive support Blacks normally give the Democratic candidate.

But that is to me a measure of how backward, and I’m getting into politics here –but to think you can run for office and what you have to do is appease, what you have to do is have a Black woman on the court — that that is meaningful social change is sad.”?

Biden is committing the great American sin — using race as a means to power.