Joe Biden's History of Racial Remark and Relationships

 Submitted by: Terry Payne

The question that Trump and MSM should asking Biden before and during the next debate  “Joe are you still a “White Supremacist?”

 

• Biden has exaggerated at best and lied at worst claims about his civil rights activism. He has often said that he marched in civil rights demonstrations, but fact checkers remind him that he did not personally participate.

• Earlier in 2020, he claimed that he was arrested in South Africa in the 1970s while trying to see Nelson Mandela, but his campaign later clarified that he was just separated from them at the airport.

• Biden’s many racial blunders include: calling Obama "articulate and bright and clean,” telling a largely black audience that Republican 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney would “put you all back in chains," and saying that he can’t go into a 7-Eleven without hearing “a slight Indian accent."

• A 1977 quote by former Vice President Joe Biden discovered by University of Southern California Law School is facing increased scrutiny over his record on busing and racial issues: In 1977, he said -"orderly" racial integration policies would cause his children to "grow up in a racial jungle." In the quote related to anti-busing legislation, Biden emphasized wanting to "insure we do have orderly integration of society," adding he was "not just talking about education but all of society."

• Further in the 1977 quote he said: "Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point. We have got to make some move on this."

• Former Vice President Biden, who has been emphasizing his civil rights record, in 1975 praised notorious segregationist George Wallace and later claimed to have received an award from him in 1973.

• The Washington Examiner reported in February 2019 that Biden embraced segregation in October 1975, the same month he said Democrats could do with "a liberal George Wallace," stating that it was a matter of "black pride."

• During 1987 fundraising trips across the South for his unsuccessful 1988 presidential bid, he sought to appeal to white voters, telling audiences that he had received an award from Wallace in 1973 and that the segregationist had lauded him as "one of the outstanding young politicians of America."

• Biden told the Philadelphia Enquirer on Oct. 12, 1975, referring to the racist then-Alabama governor George Wallace: "I think the Democratic Party could stand a liberal George Wallace — someone who's not afraid to stand up and offend people, someone who wouldn't pander but would say what the American people know in their gut is right,”

• Biden's 1975 comments above came after his legislative victory in the Senate, when he sponsored an amendment to prevent the federal government enforcing busing policies to desegregate school districts.

• Biden’s 1975 amendment appalled civil rights activists who claimed it set back desegregation efforts and struck down parts of the Civil Rights Act. “The pro-busers and the civil rights lobby were dumbstruck … although I had put them on notice months earlier,” said Biden in the interview. “I think I’ve made it possible for liberals to come out of the closet … If [anti-busing] isn’t yet a respectable liberal position, it is no longer a racist one.”

• Biden stressed his anti-busing legislation while campaigning for white votes in Southern states for his campaign for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination.

• During a campaign trip to Alabama in 1987, he boasted about an award he supposedly received from Wallace in 1973 and claimed his state of Delaware supported the Confederacy during the Civil War. Delaware, a border state, fought on the Union side of the war.

• Biden helped lead the charge for a landmark 1994 crime bill, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which created "three strikes" mandatory life sentences for repeat offenders and increased prison funding by about $10 billion, among other provisions. He warned of "predators on our streets" who were "beyond the pale." He elaborated they must be cordoned off from the rest of society because the justice system did not know how to rehabilitate them.

• And he was friendly with segregationist senators such as Jesse Helms, James O. Eastland, and Herman Talmadge. "All these men became my friends,” Biden said in his 2008 farewell address to the Senate. He called South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond one of his “closest friends.”

• Biden boasted of his ability to work with the likes of Mississippi racist Senator Eastland at a campaign rally for Senator Doug Jones of Alabama in 2017. "I’ve been around so long, I worked with James Eastland,” Biden said.

• In the early 1940s, West VA Senator Robert Byrd, the longest serving senator in history, recruited 150 of his friends and associates to create a new chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Sophia, West Virginia. Byrd was a member of the wing of the Democratic Party that opposed federally mandated desegregation and civil rights and he filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964. During Byrd’s funeral, Vice President (and thus President of the Senate) Joe Biden eulogized Byrd: "A very close friend of mine, one of my mentors, a guy who was there when I was a 29-year-old kid being sworn into the United States Senate.

• In June 2019, Joe Biden, singled out two notorious segregationists who were his party colleagues in the Senate in the 1970s as examples of politicians he could work with. Speaking at his third New York fundraiser with wealthy donors on Tuesday, Biden talked about Senators James O. Eastland of Mississippi and Herman Talmadge of Georgia.

• Biden said Aug. 9, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa “Poor kids are just as bright, just as talented, as White kids.” So, Biden sees White boys and girls as bright, talented and affluent and considers their non-White counterparts poor.  

• Further in June 2019, “I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland (D-MS),” Biden, 76, said, according to a pool report, imitating the dead Southerner's drawl. “He never called me boy, he always called me son.”

• Again in June 2019, he brought up another segregationist Democrat, "a guy like Herman Talmadge (D-GA), one of the meanest guys I ever knew, you go down the list of all these guys. "Well guess what? At least there was some civility. We got things done. We didn’t agree on much of anything. We got things done.

• James Eastland (D-MS), who died in 1986 aged 81, said many times that he thought black people belonged to “an inferior race.” When later asked if he would change anything in his political career, he said that he “voted my convictions on everything.''

• Talmadge (D-GA), who died in 2002 aged 88, once denounced the 1954 Supreme Court decision on school desegregation, saying ''there aren't enough troops in the whole United States to make the white people of this state send their children to school with colored children.'' He denounced civil rights legislation as "sanctions aimed at the white Southerner" and mocked Democrats who battled segregation, saying: "It's easy to pontificate on race relations when your biggest ethnic minority is Swedes."

• Biden served with Eastland and Talmadge when he began his 36-year stint in the Senate in 1973. He was then aged 30 and joined a chamber of 99 white men and one black man, Senator Edward Brooke, a Republican. Biden again quoted: “Even in the days when I got there, the Democratic Party still had seven or eight old-fashioned Democratic segregationists. You’d get up and you’d argue like the devil with them. Then you’d go down and have lunch or dinner together. The political system worked. We were divided on issues, but the political system worked.”

• When Biden faced a reelection in 1978, Eastland even offered to help Biden’s Senate campaign. “I looked at Eastland. He said, ‘What can old Jim Eastland do for you in Delaware?’" Biden recounted at a 2016 Labor Day event in Pittsburgh, Pa. "I said, ‘Mr. Chairman, some places you’d help and some places you’d hurt.’ He said, ‘Well, I’ll come to Delaware and campaign for you or against you, whichever will help the most.’”

• Biden also formed friendships with Republican segregationists Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) of North Carolina and Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina (D-R-SC).

• Thurmond, a Southern Democrat who later switched parties, ran for president in 1948 as an independent on a segregationist platform and led a record-setting filibuster to block the Civil Rights Act in 1957. He later softened his stance on civil rights issues but never fully renounced his position on segregation or the racially inflammatory comments he made during his presidential campaign.

• Biden delivered a eulogy at Thurmond’s funeral in 2003 after he had died aged 100, calling him a "brave man, who in the end made his choice and moved to the good side." Biden said: "I disagreed deeply with Strom on the issue of civil rights and on many other issues, but I watched him change. We became good friends."

• On May 22, 2020, Biden told radio host Lenard “Charlamagne tha God” McKelvy: “I tell ya, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t Black.”

• From his Delaware basement on Aug. 6, 2020, Biden told Black and Hispanic journalists: “…unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.”

• ​​​​​Later that Aug 6^th day, Biden told the National Association of Latino Elected Officials that his administration would display “the full diversity of the Latino communities.” Biden then wandered off into the ethnic quicksand. “Now what I mean full diversity, unlike the African American community and many other communities, you're from everywhere,” he observed. “They're from Europe, from the tip of South America, all the way to our border in Mexico, and the Caribbean. And different backgrounds, different ethnicities, but all Latinos.” 

• Being Hispanic is a many-splendored thing, Biden marveled. And, for the third time since May, Biden said, in so many words, If you’ve seen one Black, you’ve seen ’em all.

 

Soo…..“Joe are you still a “White Supremacist?”