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jefferyryanlong · 2 years

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Infinite Pau Hana - August 24, 2022

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Colors - Pharoah Sanders Astral Traveling - Pharoah Sanders Stick and Move - BLKTOP Project Sorrow Tears and Blood - Chico Mann Shorty Rides Again - Les McCann and Eddie Harris Hip Skip - Tony Williams Doo Wah Ditty (Blow That Thing) - Zapp and Roger Lotus Flower - Radiohead

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Melting Pot - Orgone Skull Session - Oliver Nelson Little Miss Laurie - Henry Franklin What Will You Do When Your Suntan Fades? - Beulah Brand New Feeling - The Awakening I Don’t Know - Beastie Boys All I Do - Julius Rodriguez Starz - Angel Bat Dawid Somethin’ - Theo Croker (featuring Ego Ella May) Every Time It Rains - Kelly Finnigan

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Queen Jane Approximately - Bob Dylan Positively 4th Street - Merl Saunders and Jerry Garcia I Don’t Need Nobody - The Human Expression Some Other Drum - The Music Machine Venus in Furs - The Velvet Underground Star Eyes (I Can’t Catch It) - Sparklehorse and Danger Mouse (featuring David Lynch) The Mysteries of Love - Julee Cruise Martha Sways - Andy Shauf Kaldak Hamar (The Other Side of the Mountain) - Kongol-Ol Ondar and Paul Pena 3 AM Somewhere Out of Beaumont - The KLF You’ve Got to Learn to Let it Go - Samy Waymon

KTUH - 90.1 FM Honolulu, 91.1 FM North Shore, ktuh.org

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shirkers2018dirsanditan · 3 years

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I was thinking about how great it would be if there was a Frances Perkins movie or tv series, because I feel like she’s not generally well-known by the public. Are there any women in particular you would like to see get the film treatment (if they did them justice)?

yes!! an actually good frances perkins movie would be nice. fannie lou hamer, sojourner truth, ida b. wells, stormé delarverie, merle woo, lorraine hansberry, diane nash, gloria anzaldua, audre lorde...there’s so many truly!!!!! dolores huerta and elaine brown too!! some of these women have docs about them but it would be very exciting to see a female director and writer (or one woman doing both..) fictionalize their lives in a way that does them justice

#BEULAH SANDERS!!!#ella baker would probably not want a movie made about her she was so modest but she would be a good one too if not for that!!#the list is truly so endless its crazy #thats not even like women in science or other fields either #and i prefer biopics that focus on a specific event or element of their life rather than the entire thing i think that would be wonderful #anon

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faecorpspublishing · 4 years

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Corrected Author Lists for Nightmare Whispers

So I have fixed my mistakes in the author lists. I had failed to list our art contributor, and I missed one author in Volume 3. I also messed up on one of the authors name spelling. I am human and humans make mistakes… However I do apologize for those mistakes. Here are our lists with the correct spelling and the full list of the authors.

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blackwomenblackpower · 3 years

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Beulah Sanders is sharing with the National Council of Churches her critique on the effects of sexism and racism on the wage system (1972).

Beulah Sanders was an active voice in the Black Power Movement, she used the role of churches to her advantage by asking for help on the spread the of the history of the system they’re fighting against. In the quote above Beulah is challenging the ideology that being an at home mother is perceived as lazy thought she’s doing multiple tasks herself. It’s significant because Beulah is is confronting the hardships placed on her and other woman alike, that is carrying the burden of being the head of household & sole provider while having to raise the children.

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glittergummicandypeach · 4 years

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Worried About Inequality After the Pandemic? Start By Listening to the Women Ringing the Alarm for Decades | Religion Dispatches

In 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. began to organize the Poor People’s Campaign, pulling together poor people and moral leaders from across the country to unite across lines of division. Just two months before his assassination he traveled to Chicago to enlist the women of the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO), which included in its ranks 10,000 dues-paying, welfare-receiving members in over 100 chapters.

At the meeting, welfare rights leader, Etta Horn, asked Dr. King about his position on the recent passage of anti-welfare legislation. His answer revealed his unfamiliarity with the fight around welfare that these women had been waging for years. Johnnie Tillmon, the national chairwoman of the NWRO, stepped in: “You know, Dr. King, if you don’t know about these questions, you should just say you don’t know, and then we could go on with this meeting”. Dr. King replied, “We don’t know anything about welfare. We are here to learn.”

More than a month into the coronavirus pandemic, our nation is revealing how little it knows about welfare or how to care for all of its people. The $2 trillion stimulus package passed last week may include stop-gap measures for the poor, but it does very little to respond to the vast need being created by COVID-19 nor the pre-existing crisis facing 140 million poor and low-income people. Federal intervention thus far has largely amounted to a bail-out of Wall Street and the continued redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top.

Both Democrats and Republicans have celebrated the promise of $1200 direct payments for adults and $500 for children; some have said these policies represent the arrival of a Universal Basic Income (UBI). We should not be fooled by this smokescreen. These payments are time-bound, limited in who and how many they reach, and woefully insufficient to meet even the most basic living expenses.

Indeed, over one in three Americans say the benefits will not sustain them for a single month. And even if the payments were more robust, the current rules mean that those too poor to have to file taxes will either face weeks or months before they receive payments or won’t even receive them at all. Moreover, the exclusion of 11 million undocumented people and their children from these benefits, as well as millions of students who fall in a coverage gap, adds to the failure of our elected leaders.

The complete inadequacy of our nation’s welfare system is one of the things most clearly revealed through this crisis. The millions now being thrown into poverty are joining the millions more who were already confronting a threadbare social safety net that has been systematically undermined for decades, undergirded by a theological discourse about personal responsibility, work reconciliation, and the alleged depravity of poor people.

From the start, the U.S. welfare system was constructed to devalue the work that happens in the home—work disproportionately placed on the shoulders of poor women. And now these direct payments reinforce the false distinction between the “deserving” and the “undeserving” poor by substituting temporary provision of money to individuals for the development of a strong universal social safety net.

The attacks on welfare over the past six decades, under both Democratic and Republican administrations, have identified welfare recipients as the problem in need of fixing, obscuring systems that produce their poverty. Couched in religious language, these narratives have used racism and sexism to demonize, isolate, and divide the poor—hiding the fact that the conditions faced by those on welfare only anticipate the poverty and precarity of millions of people in an economy undergoing massive structural dislocation.

As our society wrestles with how to respond to the current moment, the leadership of women on welfare can point toward a more visionary model for how to build a nation that cares for everyone. For nearly sixty years, these women have been organizing the welfare rights movement to win policies that protect their communities and reveal the grinding truth of their reality to the larger society.

In 1966, fledgling organizations of women formed the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) as a way to impact federal policy and break through the lies being told about the benevolence of the welfare system and immorality of poor people on welfare. The organization was built and led by poor women like Johnnie Tillmon of Los Angeles, Dovie Thurman of Chicago, Beulah Sanders of New York City, Annie Smart of Baton Rouge, Annie Chambers of Baltimore, and Marian Kramer of Detroit.

The central tenet of their vision was that welfare should be a right, not public charity. They argued that the realization of this right should come in the form of a Guaranteed Adequate Income for everyone regardless of employment status, family structure, or any other aspect of their lives, outside of need. Leaders like Johnnie Tillmon expressed this demand as a logical extension of the idea, enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, of universal rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Beulah Sanders extended the call that the poor thrive—not barely survive—to religious institutions, “We expect the churches to spread the truth about the welfare problems in this country. We expect the churches and their members to oppose local, state and federal legislation that oppresses poor people…If we fail in our struggle, Christianity will have failed.”

NWRO and their demand for a Guaranteed Adequate Income became a leading force in the Poor People’s Campaign, which was launched in Washington D.C. with a Mother’s Day March led by welfare rights leaders.

It’s in this context that the renewed debate around a Universal Basic Income is a welcome development. But, the welfare rights movement teaches us that the devil’s in the details and that welfare policies have to be examined critically for their moral foundations. The NWRO found itself in fierce opposition to a basic income plan put forward by the Nixon administration in 1969 because its restrictive nature, low benefit levels, work requirements, and the intention to eliminate other hard-won entitlement plans in exchange, meant that it actually amounted to a further attack on the poor.

In the early weeks of this pandemic, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival (full disclosure: I am a PPC co-chair), which includes in its leadership welfare rights leaders from the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign, has demanded the immediate establishment of a permanent Guaranteed Adequate Income for all, as a part of a broader moral agenda that is the only-long term solution to this crisis.

This demand, made by poor people of all backgrounds, runs counter to solutions that propose a temporary fix to maintain consumption and corporate profits. In fact, welfare rights leaders have shaped many of the demands, now being picked up by people across the country, that reject the manipulation of the welfare system as a means of extending the control of the wealthy over the labor and lives of the poor.

With the anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination having just passed, our society cannot forget his final call for a movement to end poverty, led by the poor. Political and religious leaders today could do no better than to follow what Rev. Dr. King did in the last months of his life: listen to and follow the fierce leadership and genius of the welfare rights movement and the poor women who began ringing the alarm well before the coronavirus.

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pipelinelaserraygun · 4 years

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Horcrux is an object formed by DARK MAGIC that is used by a wizard, or witch, in the Harry Potter series. THIS ⬆️, is what it has come, TO: demo-🐭-rat plotters are turning to SORCERY, for answers. Many of you are unaware of SPELLS being cast by Harry Potter fanatics, buying into the fictional franchise as WITHIN the realm of possibility, summoning witchcraft AGAINST the Trump Administration. I witnessed this FIRSTHAND ⬇️ at last year's Comic-Con in San Diego.

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NO forbidden "knowledge" compares with God's Sophia Wisdom. The issues concerning FUTURE election results is high atop OUR triage prayer board, in terms of high priority.

There are NO stupid questions.

Ultimately, WHO'S in charge? What ALL of the godless communists around the world are FINDING out, the HARD way, is that the Creator of EVERYTHING "ain't going anywhere". There is NO EXIT STRATEGY that gets past God's watchful eye.

Through hacking, maybe, joey biden might be getting MERCIFUL, DOCTORED VOTE TOTALS in Iowa, fraudulently. Thus, making it NOT look as bad as it was.

California has removed ALL paper ballots, ahead of November 2020.

E-voting is a tool that helps STEAL elections. Make this a high-priority PRAYER concern.

They ⬆️ cry "FALSE claims". ⬇️ I've gathered facts to prove PRIOR ELECTION RIGGING:

Definition of MALFEASANCE: "wrongdoing, especially by a public official".

Potential, MASSIVE voter fraudulence, NATIONWIDE, is being downplayed. But I pray that THIS electronic "glitch" is exposed for what it REALLY is: a backdoor-channel for all kinds of MANIPULATIONS, behind the scenes. MUST WATCH ⬇️‼️

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Paper-trail of ballots were FAR MORE trustworthy. E-votes are FAR MORE susceptible to hacking and rigging. Troops, lay THIS ⬆️ concern at the altar-footstool of the Almighty, ahead of the November elections.

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Another FIX, is in the works!!

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"WOKE" JOKE.

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Crop/crap 💩 DUSTED‼️

I pray that American Beulah is embraced across both sides of the aisle, OVER babylon.

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wausaupilot · 5 years

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Wausau area obituaries: Aug. 9, 2019

Obituaries are a service of Brainard Funeral Home & Cremation Center, with locations in Wausau and Weston. Obituaries for Friday, Aug. 9, 2019: Beulah Mae “Geri” Treu MaryAnn Townsend Michael William Chrudimsky George E. Larzelere Sharon Raymond Cherek

Obituaries are a service of Brainard Funeral Home, with locations in Wausau and Weston.

Beulah Mae “Geri” Treu

Beulah Mae “Geri” Treu, 92, of Freeport, Illinois, formerly of Wausau, Wisconsin, passed away on Sunday, July 7, 2019 at FHN Memorial Hospital in Freeport, Illinois.

She was born on April 26, 1927 in Wausau, Wisconsin, the daughter of Elgard and Ruth (Sanders) Ristow. Beulah married…

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#death notices #obituaries

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maddiesplaybills · 7 years

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Hi friends!

Me again with a new batch of audio masters from my arsenal. I’m definitely willing to gift these to anyone who asks nicely, so send me a message if you’re interested in any of the following:

Groundhog Day 06/14/17 eve Cast: Andy Karl (Phil Connors), Barrett Doss (Rita Hanson), Rebecca Faulkenberry (Nancy), John Sanders (Ned Ryerson), Andrew Call (Gus/Billy the Bartender), Raymond J Lee (Ralph), Michael Fatica (Chubby Man), Heather Ayers (Mrs. Lancaster), Katy Geraghty (Debbie), Gerard Canonico (Fred), Sean Montgomery (Sheriff), William Parry (Jenson), Jordan Grubb (u/s The Hot Dog Seller), Vishal Vaidya (Larry), Joseph Medeiros (Deputy/Mr. Cleveland), Rheaume Crenshaw (Doris), Travis Waldschmidt (Jeff), Kevin Bernard (u/s Buster), Taylor Iman Jones (Lady Storm Chaser), Jenna Rubaii (Joelle/Doctor), Tari Kelly (Piano Teacher/Mrs. Cleveland)

Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 06/15/17 Cast: Josh Groban (Pierre), Denée Benton (Natasha), Brittain Ashford (Sonya), Gelsey Bell (Mary/Maidservant/Opera Singer), Nicholas Belton (Andrey/Bolkonsky), Azudi Onyejekwe (u/s Dolokhov), Amber Gray (Helene), Grace McLean (Marya D), Paul Pinto (Balaga/Servant/Opera Singer), Lucas Steele (Anatole), Ensemble: Sumayya Ali, Courtney Bassett, Josh Canfield, Kennedy Caughell, Ken Clark, Erica Dorfer, Lulu Fall, Ashley Pérez Flanagan, Alex Gibson, Billy Joe Kiessling, Blaine Alden Krauss, Reed Luplau, Brandt Martinez, Andrew Mayer, Mary Page Nance, Pearl Rhein, Heath Saunders, Cathryn Wake, Katrina Yaukey, Lauren Zakrin

Miss Saigon 06/16/17 Cast: Jon Jon Briones (The Engineer), Eva Noblezada (Kim), Alistair Brammer (Chris), Katie Rose Clarke (Ellen), Nicholas Christopher (John), Devin Ilaw (Thuy), Rachelle Ann Go (Gigi)

Come From Away 06/17/17 mat Cast: Petrina Bromley (Bonnie & others), Geno Carr (Oz & others), Jenn Colella (Beverley/Annette & others), Joel Hatch (Claude & others), Josh Breckenridge (u/s Bob & others), Kendra Kassebaum (Janice & others), Chad Kimball (Kevin T/Garth & others), Lee MacDougall (Nick/Doug & others), Caesar Samayoa (Kevin J/Ali & others), Q. Smith (Hannah & others), Astrid Van Wieren (Beulah & others), Sharon Wheatley (Diane & others)

Anastasia 06/17/17 eve Cast: Nicole Scimeca (Little Anastasia), Mary Beth Peil (Dowager Empress) Caroline O’Connor (Countess Lily), Ramin Karimloo (Gleb), Derek Klena (Dmitry), John Bolton (Vlad), Christy Altomare (Anya), Ensemble: Zach Adkins, Lauren Blackman, Sissy Bell, Kyle Brown, Janet Dickinson, Constantine Germanacos, Wes Hart, Ken Krugman, Dustin Layton, Shina Ann Morris, James A Pierce III, Molly Rushing, Kristen Smith Davis, Allison Walsh

Bandstand 06/18/17 Cast: Jonathan Shew (u/s Donny Novitski), Laura Osnes (Julia Trojan), Beth Leavel (Mrs. June Adams), James Nathan Hopkins (Jimmy Campbell), Brandon J. Ellis (Davy Zlatic), Alex Bender (Nick Radel), Geoff Packard (Wayne Wright), Joe Carroll (Johnny Simpson), Ensemble: Mary Callahan, Max Clayton, Andrea Dotto, Ryan Kasprzak, Andrew Leggieri, Erica Mansfield, Morgan Marcell, Drew McVety, Kevyn Morrow, Jessica Lea Patty, Keven Quillon, Ryan Vandenboom, Jaime Verazin

#groundhog day #the great comet #miss saigon #come from away #anastasia #bandstand #broadway

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Hawaii Five-0 - Episode 8.22 - Kopi Wale No I Ka I'a A 'Eu No Ka Ilo - Press Release

FIVE-0 MUST HELP DUKE AFTER HE IS FORCED TO STEAL CRUCIAL EVIDENCE FROM THE POLICE LOCKER IN EXCHANGE FOR HIS KIDNAPPED GRANDDAUGHTER, ON “HAWAII FIVE-0,” FRIDAY, APRIL 27 “Kōpī wale nō i ka i'a a 'eu nō ka ilo.” – Five-0 must help Duke after he is forced to steal crucial evidence from the police locker in exchange for his kidnapped granddaughter. Also, Jerry goes undercover at a mental health facility in order to solve a murder, on HAWAII FIVE-0, Friday, April 27 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. (“Kōpī wale nō i ka i'a a 'eu nō ka ilo.” is Hawaiian for “Though the Fish is Well Salted, the Maggots Crawl.”) CHEAT TWEET: #H50 fans, Jerry finally gets his own case and goes undercover! @JorgeGarcia @HawaiiFive0CBS 4/27 9pm #CBS http://bit.ly/2q8GS6R REGULAR CAST: Alex O’Loughlin (Steve McGarrett) Scott Caan (Danny “Danno” Williams) Chi McBride (Lou Grover) Jorge Garcia (Jerry Ortega) Ian Anthony Dale (Adam Noshimuri) Meaghan Rath (Tani Rey) Beulah Koale (Junior Reigns) Taylor Wily (Kamekona) Kimee Balmilero (Noelani Cunha) Dennis Chun (Sgt. Duke Lukela) RECURRING CAST: Kunal Sharma (Koa Rey) GUEST CAST: Shi Ne Nielson (Carrie Nakahara) Cidni Romias (Akela Nakahara) Kanani Dias (Becky) Tongayi Chirisa (Don) Kendall Prochnow (Sgt. Frank Bellina) Devin Ratray (Harris Stubman) Michael Hake (Chris Kosaki/Dylan Shu) Joanna Sotomura (Mila) Konoa Goo (Chad) David Kaufman (Trent Sanders) Spike Jones Stedman (Kid) Reno David (Mr. Kalani) Kamakani De Dely (Lead Kidnapper) Wesley Cortez (Mark Tuilau) WRITTEN BY: Rob Hanning & Rachael Paradis DIRECTED BY: Ruba Nadda SOURCE:CBS

SOURCE: https://www.spoilertv.com/2018/04/hawaii-five-0-episode-822-kopi-wale-no.html

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Richmond tenants say apartments are unsafe, mold ridden and repairs aren’t being made

RICHMOND, Mo. — Falling ceilings, a rotting wall and black mold are just some of the conditions people living in a Ray County apartment complex say they’re being subjected to.

They’re frustrated more’s not being done to fix the problems.

Chris Graham said soon after moving into C & L Apartments in Richmond, everyone in his family got sick. The baby was the worst.

“She was diagnosed with RSV and bronchitis, and we explained we didn’t know where it was coming from,” Graham said.

He started exploring his apartment building and couldn’t believe what he saw in the units directly below.

“This is all mold,” Graham said.

Soon after, the city condemned that entire building. The Grahams and another family moved to other units in the complex. But they couldn’t understand why inspectors didn’t review those other buildings for health and safety issues, too.

“This is mold — one thing he’s tried to paint over, and it’s come back through,” said Graham, looking at the bathroom of his new apartment.

The shower leaks water, and the ceiling above is saturated.

“It’s unsafe conditions for anybody,” said Graham, who has three children and his girlfriend is pregnant.

Beulah Sanders lives a few doors down. Every time it rains, she said water pours into her bedroom and runs down the utility closet doors. The ceiling inside the closet is collapsed. Water stains and what looks like mold coat walls and ceilings and a white fungus is growing from the carpet.

“Nobody should live like this,” Sanders said.

She and other residents said the landlord just won’t fix the problems.

FOX4 reached out to the building owner. He called back and declined an interview, but insisted some work’s already been done, foundation repairs will start this week, and a new maintenance person will be hired.

Residents said they’ll believe it when they see it.

“I can’t afford to move. I have to live here. I don’t have any place to go,” Sanders said.

The city said its hands are tied. Richmond doesn’t have “property maintenance codes,” which would allow it to inspect rental units. Right now, it has to get a complaint about unsafe conditions, then ask the landlord’s permission to check for dangerous building violations.

The city administrator believes the ongoing concerns surrounding C & L Apartments may ultimately spark renewed discussions about property maintenance code and keeping owners accountable within the city council.

Richmond also only holds administrative hearings on dangerous building code violations once a year.

The owner of C & L Apartments won’t have a hearing on the condemned building until March 2020. Right now, no utilities are running to that building, and it can’t be rented out.

from FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV | News, Weather, Sports https://fox4kc.com/2019/07/29/richmond-tenants-say-apartments-are-unsafe-mold-ridden-and-repairs-arent-being-made/

from Kansas City Happenings https://kansascityhappenings.wordpress.com/2019/07/29/richmond-tenants-say-apartments-are-unsafe-mold-ridden-and-repairs-arent-being-made/

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Grampa Simpson runs for president

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Grampa Simpson runs for president

Former Vice President Joe Biden, in 48 years on the national scene, has never had an especially strong ideological profile | Drew Angerer/Getty Images

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The concern, as articulated by his Democratic rivals and a wave of harsh online commentary, is that Biden sees contemporary America through a distorting haze of nostalgia.

As thunderbolts crash around him, Joe Biden is facing an urgent question: What exactly is the rationale for his presidential candidacy?

The answers given by Biden sympathizers usually are rooted in character and personal history. Here is a decent man who has lived long and seen a lot, through setbacks and tragedy, and knows enough to understand and defend the timeless virtues that are so absent but also so needed in modern Washington. Late in life, the man and moment are in harmony at last for a heroic final chapter.

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The hope is that voters will embrace Biden as a kind of American Churchill.

The past 24 hours raise, not for the first time, a more painful possibility: Grampa Simpson is running for president.

“There’s not a racist bone in my body,” Biden bristled indignantly on Wednesday evening. But that wasn’t the primary concern about a 76-year-old’s paean to his youthful past, in which conscientious senators like himself supposedly could work productively and with “civility” even with segregationists like James Eastland and Herman Talmadge.

The concern, as articulated by his Democratic rivals and a wave of harsh online commentary, is that Biden sees contemporary America through a distorting haze of nostalgia, that his values and assumptions were shaped by the last generation or even the one before that, that after many years in public life he still lacks the self-awareness or self-discipline to wonder whether modern voters will find his vagrant ruminations about the past as interesting or relevant as he does.

There is a lot of space between Winston Churchill and Abraham Simpson, and a fair reading of his career probably doesn’t place Biden at either pole. What’s more, there’s a decent chance the uproar over Biden’s stroll down memory-fogged lane will burn out in a day or two, just like an earlier uproar over how he made some women uncomfortable by being too handsy and familiar.

If so, this surely will reflect a familiar dynamic: A lot of Americans don’t give a damn about the momentary preoccupations of the media and political classes, and have a natural aversion to anything that looks like a pile-on.

But even if the horde moves on from this episode some of the strategic vulnerabilities it exposed will remain, to be exploited by opponents if Biden doesn’t close them first.

The essential point Biden seemed to be making with his discursive remarks about Senate civility between opponents is that he could usher in a return to norms of decency and functionality that have frayed over recent decades and been shredded entirely in Trump’s Washington. Progressive activists typically think Republicans have proved amply that they aren’t operating in good faith and it is folly to try to seek common ground with them. But there is some logic behind Biden’s appeal: A CNN poll in late April found that 77 percent of Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents think it is a top priority to have a nominee who is “willing to work with Republicans to get things done.”

There were a couple of big problems with the way Biden put it. One, the notion that Dixiecrats like Eastland or Talmadge represented civility, with their intransigence against civil rights and (in the case of Eastland) public use of the n-word, is highly suspect.

Two, in political terms, the notion that an older politician can restore the lost virtues of an earlier age has not exactly proved to be a winner. “Age has its virtues,” Robert Dole asserted as he accepted the Republican presidential nomination, offering himself as a “bridge to a time of tranquility, faith, and confidence in action.” Bill Clinton’s reelection team couldn’t believe the gift Dole had handed them and spent the rest of the campaign saying Clinton wanted to “build a bridge to the future,” not the past.

As Clinton knew, throughout history the great engines of American politics are generational change and ideological ferment. Often these two are harnessed closely together, as younger leaders and their supporters confront new problems and reject the premises of an earlier era.

This doesn’t mean, obviously, that older people can’t get elected president. But they typically must find a way to find the fountain of political youth even in a context of advanced chronological age. One way to do that is by offering oneself as the leader of an ideological movement. This is what Ronald Reagan, age 69, did in winning the presidency in 1980, and it is what Bernie Sanders, age 77, hopes to do this year. The other way older people spring to power is by offering their seasoned characters as perfectly suited to the moment, as Churchill did in wartime England upon becoming prime minster at age 65 and as Dwight Eisenhower in winning the presidency in 1952 at the (old by prevailing standards then) age of 62.

Biden, during 48 years on the national scene, has never had an especially strong ideological profile: He’s been a reasonably centrist Democrat for all of them. When he has deviated it was usually in right-leaning directions, as with his opposition to forced busing ing for integration in the 1970s or his support for expanding crimes covered by the death penalty in the 1990s.

This history means that the most likely answer to the “why Biden” challenge will rest on character. The evidence of the past couple days—redundant to evidence amassed over several decades—is that if voters are going to embrace Biden’s character they must also embrace or overlook his penchant for the cringe-worthy remark. And realize that often the most cringey remarks will flirt with racial themes.

The shower of criticism from the likes of Democratic nomination rivals like Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California and New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio has not accused Biden of racism but of cluelessness.

And Biden’s remarks did in some ways seem reminiscent of a holiday dinner in which some aging relative who would never think of themselves as racist gets to holding forth after a few glasses of sherry. (“You know, Aunt Beulah, I understand your point but some of those terms you use are not really acceptable in contemporary usage.”)

This is not a new phenomenon—nor, Democrats have concluded in the past, an unforgivable one. It was in January 2007 in which Biden offered what he meant as a compliment to Barack Obama by saying: “I mean, you got the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” And it was in August 2008 that Obama, in part seeking precisely that bridge to establishment Washington that Biden represented, selected him as his party’s vice presidential nominee.