A young Black student called out Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden on Thursday night for a dismissive remark he made about his support from Black voters.
"So my question for you then is, besides 'you ain't Black,' what do you have to say to young Black voters who see voting for you as further participation in a system that continually fails to protect them?" student Cedric Humphrey asked at an ABC News forum held at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
Biden replied by touting his plans to expand educational opportunities that would lift people to a better economic standing.
"The federal government spends billions of dollars a year on universities because they're ... the best-kept secret of where most of the major inventions come out of," he said.
"And so that school will now be able to produce young Black women and men who are going to go into a field of a future that's burgeoning."
Moderator George Stephanopoulos asked Humphrey if he heard what he needed to hear.
"I think so," Humphrey said.
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