BDKJMU wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:14 am
Caribbean Hen wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2025 6:09 am
You should of heard what came out of his mouth in the 70’s
https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/ ... st-remarks
Biden’s History of Getting Away With Racist Remarks
Jul 7, 2021 4 min read
COMMENTARY BY
Tim Murtaugh
Way back in 1977, he said that forced busing to desegregate schools would cause his children to “grow up in a racial jungle.”
1960s through the 1990s he was friendly and hung out with Southern segregationist Democrat Senators like Harry KKK Byrd, James Eastland (MS), Herman Talmadge (GA). Heck, he gave the eulogy for SC’s Fritz Hollings.
Those were the guys who were really good to him when he did enter the Senate after just losing his wife and daughter and while his sons were hospitalized. He never forgot that and was very close to those guys throughout his first decade or two in the Senate.
As for education, Biden was always very anti-busing. He was all for desegregation, but he didn't want to do anything to make it happen, and he certainly didn't want it for his own family. He purposely had his two boys go through private schools in Delaware (St Edmond's for instance) specifically to avoid his boys having to go to school in largely Black Wilmington.
He was always a product of his times, always following rather than leading. Heck, Cokie Roberts, when talking about Biden and his handling of the Clarence Thomas confirmation, pointed out that Biden originally wasn't going to give air to Anita Hill and her allegations because he, and most of the Judiciary Committee, probably acted just like Clarence Thomas had with their female counterparts and certainly with their female subordinates. His hand was forced to go down the path they did.