âThe Breakfast Clubâ airs every weekday from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. Eastern and from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Saturdays on Power 105.1. Before the pandemic, its three hosts welcomed guests into their studio in Manhattan to discuss everything from music to celebrity gossip to politics.
âThe Breakfast Clubâ airs every weekday from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. Eastern and from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Saturdays on Power 105.1. Before the pandemic, its three hosts welcomed guests into their studio in Manhattan to discuss everything from music to celebrity gossip to politics. Many fans of the show listen to it on podcast apps, too.
A few months after former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. entered the 2020 race for president, the executive producer of the popular nationally syndicated radio show âThe Breakfast Clubâ said that he and the hosts were in discussions with the Biden campaign about an appearance.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden went viral in a bad way Friday morning, when, at the end of a radio interview with The Breakfast Club, he told host Charlamagne tha God that âyou ainât Blackâ if you âhave a problem figuring out whether youâre for me or Trump.â. Progressive activists quickly slammed the former vice president ...
During the interview, Charlamagne asked Biden about this criticism head on, pushing him on why he has been reluctant to admit that the law âwas damaging to the Black community.â. The host noted that Hillary Clinton went on the radio show during her presidential run and acknowledged the bill contained mistakes.
In fact, Biden described the provision as âwackoâ in 1994. But before the bill passed, he also went on the Today show and said he did support a three-strikes provision that would incarcerate people for life who committed âserious feloniesâŚthat are violent.â âWe should take those predators off the street,â he said. 3.
Later in the day, Biden apologized. âI âve never, never, ever taken the African American community for granted,â he said on a call with members of the US Black Chambers Inc., an organization promoting Black-owned businesses. He added that he âshouldnât have been such a wise guy.â.
As early as 1977, Biden advocated mandatory minimums that would force judges to send people to prison for a certain length of time, according to a New York Times investigation. Then in 1984, he spearheaded the Comprehensive Crime Control Act, which âadded significant mandatory minimums for many federal crimes and abolished federal parole,â as the Brennan Center points out. (On The Breakfast Club, Biden argued that his intention with that bill was to erase disparities in sentencing lengths for Black and white people, âso nobody based on their color could go to jail longer than anybody else for the same crime.â) In 1986, he co-sponsored the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which set mandatory minimums for crack cocaine offenses that were significantly harsher than sentences for powder cocaine offenses and disproportionately targeted Black Americans.