The former Vice President, who insisted in May that African Americans 'ain't black' if they don't vote for him, suggested last year that 'poor kids are just as smart as white kids,' and worried in 1977 that desegregation would force his children to grow up in a 'racial jungle' - went on a tirade against minorities in 1993 while sponsoring the Democrats' 1994 crime bill, which supercharged the mass incarceration of people of color.

There's also that clip of Biden speaking fondly of his work with segregationists which his running mate Kamala Harris slammed him for during the primary debates (and later dismissed as nothing more than politics).

The crux of Biden's 1993 argument: It doesn't matter if minority criminals were "deprived as a youth," or had a "background that enabled them to become socialized into the fabric of society," or whether they're the "victims of society," they need to be taken off the streets.

"The end result is, they're about to knock my mother on the head with a lead pipe, shoot my sister, beat up my wife, take on my sons,"

So I don't wanna ask what made them do this. They must be taken off the street, that's number one. There's a consensus on that.

Unless we do something about the cadre of young people - tens of thousands of them - born out of wedlock without parents, without supervision, without any structure, without any conscience developing because they literally have not been socialized. They literally have not had an opportunity. We should focus on them now.