Stacey didn’t do a good job defending him against the Reade claims because she used a NYT “investigation” as the basis for why she believes Biden, and it wasn’t investigative at all.

If she had just said “I believe Joe”, I wouldn’t have been able to find fault with it.

Symone harping on “come on y’all it was a joke” doesn’t work for me either and is a poor defense.

To answer your point yes a Black woman needs to be VP and yup she will have to figure out a way to defend this but I believe someone like Kamala would have found a perfect balance between defending it and still holding Biden accountable for it being a problematic “joke”, something I don’t think Stacey or Symone could pull off.

Yes you need a Black woman VP but you need a savvy and smart one that knows how to say the right thing that strikes the appropriate balance.