Biden thinks that Blacks are monolithic. He has no idea about the animus that exists between light skinned and dark skinned “African-American women.
When a teen in the 1950s, I read several paperback novels about slavery, like “Mandingo’, et al.
While fictional, the books also revealed a lot of history.
Octaroons (1/8 black) brought the highest prices at the slave markets due to their light skin. Quadroons (1/4 black) were next highest.
My grandparents lived in South Dallas in the ‘50s and there were many shootings of “high yellows” by the darker blacks, only because they often lived in nicer homes and had better jobs.