This is such phony outrage. Hunter Biden isn't the president, you're only bringing this up because Joe Biden doesn't have scandals. And judging from what an NPC you are, you probably voted for Trump because you like his racism. So why is racism only good when Republicans do it?
@Rolexeo Trump regularly says racist things in order to rile up his base. His whole political career began by lying about Obama being born in Africa and then lying about most Mexican immigrants being rapists. These are the things that his supporters love about him, so he continued saying what they wanted to hear.
@PrincessAwesome Nothing you said makes sense. Democrats are the real racist. You think they care about you? All they want to do is call everyone else racist. Look back at Biden's history. He was friends with a KKK leader, even praised him at his funeral
@ron122 Do you mean Robert Byrd? Biden only became friends with Byrd after he left the KKK and devoted his life to fighting for civil rights. That's why Republicans hate Byrd so much. He turned his back on racism.
No dear. There’s evidence. Not only evidence but it gets worse.
Joe Biden’s long history of friendships with segregationists in the U.S. Senate is suddenly emerging as a political issue after the presidential candidate this week fondly recalled working with two racists who were his fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill in the 1970s.
Through his nearly five decades in politics, Biden, 76, has praised or reminisced about working cordially with every major segregationist who served alongside him in the Senate, according to a Washington Examiner analysis based on a list of key segregation proponents compiled by the Equal Justice Initiative. In all, Biden has spoken warmly of or boasted about his ability to work with six men on the list.
He has lauded South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond — who Biden called “one of my closest friends” — and Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina, who Biden worked with on legislation to prevent court-ordered desegregation busing. He has also expressed admiration for Sens. John Stennis, James O. Eastland and Herman Talmadge. He has even praised George Wallace, an Alabama governor and segregationist presidential candidate.
Now, nearly 50 years after Biden was first elected to political office, all six men are dead, but the former vice president's wistful reminiscences of them over the years has suddenly brought them to the fore of the 2020 campaign. He worked with some of them to oppose busing (a way of forcing the desegregation of schools) and others on anti-crime legislation that disproportionately affected African Americans.
Biden’s fondness for these segregationists drew renewed scrutiny this week after he invoked two of his 1970s segregationist colleagues on the campaign trail, drawing condemnation from 2020 rivals Sens. Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, the only two black candidates among the 23 Democrats running.
@stratosranger None of this has anything to do with Robert Byrd. So once again, no evidence that Biden was friends with him while he was in the KKK. The dishonesty of fascists is disgusting.
@stratosranger First of all, there's no link here, so this doesn't prove anything. It is true that Biden worked with segregationists and was probably friends with them, but you have to consider the time. Biden worked with segregationists when segregation was the norm. I'm pretty sure the abolitionists had friends who owned slaves too. The Democrats have been moving away from racism with the times, and sure they don't always move fast enough, but at least they're trying. The Republicans are trying to move us back to racism, slavery, and fascism.
Biden also worked with West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 but later renounced his racist past, to push forward an anti-busing amendment in the 1970s. He gave a eulogy at Byrd’s funeral in 2010, calling the late senator the “dean of the United States Senate” and "a dear friend.”
Early in his career, Biden developed a close friendship with Stennis, the Mississippi senator who was a leading opponent of school desegregation and rejected the Supreme Court's order to integrate classrooms. In a 1988 letter, Biden told Stennis that he viewed him as a “hero” and was honored to move into his office after Stennis left the Senate, according to correspondence published by CNN.
"I have bittersweet feeling about moving into an office of such distinction. The bitterness relates to the knowledge that you will no longer be in the Senate and the sweetness to the knowledge that I will have a constant reminder of the man I viewed as a hero from the time," Biden wrote. "I sat next you at your conference table on my second day as a U.S. senator. You are a great man Senator Stennis and I will try to live up to the great and honorable tradition of the man who last occupied the office.”
In a 2016 speech in Pittsburgh, Biden discussed his fond memories of Eastland, a staunch segregationist who once said: “Those who would mix little children of both races in our schools are following an illegal, immoral, and sinful doctrine.” Eastland said before his death that he did not regret anything in his political career and “voted my convictions.”
Biden recalled that at the height of the desegregation busing debate, Eastland offered to help him win his reelection in Delaware. “I looked at Eastland. He said, ‘What can old Jim Eastland do for you in Delaware?’" Biden recounted. "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.’”
At a rally in Alabama in 2017, Biden said: “Even in the days when I got [to the Senate], 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.”
Talmadge, a vocal segregationist who died in 2002, once proclaimed, “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.” Biden’s warm remarks about controversial Southern politicians was not confined to his Senate colleagues.
During his 1988 presidential campaign, Biden praised one of the most infamous segregationists in the United States, former Alabama Gov. George Wallace, and claimed that Wallace had given him an award in 1973 as one of the “outstanding young politicians in America.”
@PrincessAwesome He absolutely knows you’re right. He knows who’s flying and fighting for the right to fly the Confederate battle flag, (the KKK’s symbol) in the 21st century. And it’s certainly not Biden voters.
@bijouxbroussard I can't help but find it funny. Conservatives will support Trump because he acts racist, while also claiming the Democrats are racist. The conservative brain is soup.
