In Biden-Trump Handshake, Black America Sees More Than Just a Gesture

In a scene that one might easily describe as privilege meeting privilege, two powerful white and elderly men-Joe Biden, 81, and Donald Trump, 78-shared a cordial exchange in the Oval Office, an image strikingly at odds with the grim reality many Black Americans now face with Trump's re-election. While Biden extended a warm "welcome back" to his predecessor and successor, for African Americans and other margin alized groups, the moment marked something else entirely: the return of a leader who has made explicit promises to dismantle the civil rights framework that barely holds at the edges in t...