Embattled Assembly candidate Joel Young is now playing the race card. In a mailer from Young’s campaign that arrived in East Bay mailboxes yesterday, his mother, Carol Draizen, strongly implies that the numerous allegations against him, which range from violence to unethical behavior, are racially motivated. “Raising my African American sons,” Draizen writes, after addressing the allegations of domestic violence against Young, “I witnessed the harm that racial bias could create …”
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