I think he meant to say "be". We all misspeak from time to time so I really don't think this is newsworthy.
No doubt. Joe Biden does seem to misspeak quite often, but it's a matter of opinion how significant that is.
What I do find surprising how racist Joe Biden is. A more altruistic "soft racism", but racism nonetheless.
Yeah, there's a long list of, I guess one might call them paternalistic, statements from Biden. They seem to get both support and opposition from different parts of the Black community.
I recall that his "poor kids are just as bright as white kids" comment raised a few comments at the time.
The fundamental issue (and probably the thing that lost the Democrats the last election) seems to me to be a failure to acknowledge the existence of the poor white community, and to engage with their problems, most of which are shared by
all poor people, whether Black, White, Hispanic, or Native American.
To discuss economic, social, and educational problems
only in racial terms is always going to sound racist, it seems to me.
As an outsider, it always seem to me that Democrats are doing their best to lose by alienating the working-class White voters; and Republicans are doing their best to lose by alienating the conservative Hispanic voters.