Racial Controversies And Volatile Behavior
IN ORDER TO PRESERVE HIS POLITICAL CAREER, JOE BIDEN ACTIVELY FOUGHT SCHOOL INTEGRATION THROUGH BUSING
In the early-70’s, Joe Biden was a freshly elected Senator from Delaware. Wilmington (Delaware’s largest city) was facing action from federal court (Evans v. Buchanan 1974) as a result of it’s largely segregated schools. One of the remedies cities used was desegregation busing. Senator Biden opposed busing and integration in an effort to preserve his political career.
“He emerged as the Democratic Party’s leading anti-busing crusader — a position that put him in league with Southern segregationists, at odds with liberal Republicans and helped change the dynamic of the Senate, turning even some leaders in his own party against busing as a desegregation tool. “No issue has consumed more of my time and energies,” Mr. Biden declared with a flourish as he opened a Senate hearing in 1981, adding, “We want to stop court-ordered busing.”
“In the summer of 1974, the freshman Senator Joe Biden found himself under siege from white suburbanites at a meeting just south of Wilmington, Del. The possibility that their children would be bused into “black schools" in the city and that black children would be bused to their schools had sent a wave of consternation through the white community. Civil rights activists had recently won a lawsuit in which a federal District Court recognized that state-sponsored discriminatory education and housing policies had led to segregated metropolitan-area schools. The court was then poised to demand a two-way busing program that would transfer students between the city and suburban districts to advance racial balance. For two hours, Biden paced the auditorium stage and absorbed the ire of the 250-member audience. Unable to offer them any assurance on the court ruling, he made a promise to oppose busing when he returned to Washington for the next legislative session. And he did: Biden spent the next four years pushing legislation to thwart the implementation of busing schemes like the one demanded by the courts in Wilmington around the country.” - Politico
JOE BIDEN HAS A HISTORY OF CONTROVERSIAL RACIAL COMMENTS
“Amid the fallout from comments by former vice president and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden about a lack of diversity of thought and heritage within the African American community, some worry that a pattern of blunders could impact support within the Black community. Biden drew criticism on Thursday when he compared the diversity of African American and Latino communities at a pretaped virtual talk with the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. "What you all know, but most people don't know. Unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things," Biden said.”
- MSN
Joe Biden made waves Friday (May 22, 2020) when he said that African-Americans unsure of whether they should vote for President Trump or him “ain’t black,” but it was hardly the first time the 77-year-old has come under criticism for a racially charged remark. Here's a look at past controversies over Biden's comments:
May 2020: “You ain’t black.”
In an interview with “The Breakfast Club,” the presumptive Democratic nominee told host Charlamagne tha God, “I tell you if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black,” before defending his record with the black community.
August 2019: “Poor kids” just as bright as “white kids.”
At a campaign event in Iowa, Biden told supporters “poor kids are just as bright and talented as white kids.” He quickly corrected himself after some applause by adding: “Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids.”
August 2012: “Put y’all back in chains.”
Then-Vice President Biden told a Virginia audience that then-Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s financial regulation lifts would "put y'all back in chains." "He said in the first 100 days, he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules," Biden said. "Unchain Wall Street! They're gonna put y'all back in chains."
February 2007: Obama is "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean.”
Biden, while running for the 2008 presidency, issued what he thought was praise of then-Senator Barack Obama, saying he was "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean." - Fox News
Among stories readers widely shared was a July 15, 2019, Business Insider story that reported, “Former Vice President Joe Biden is facing increased scrutiny over his record on busing and racial issues, and this week old comments resurfaced in which he said, in 1977, that busing for the purpose of desegregation would cause his children to ‘grow up in a racial jungle.
The quote is accurate as reported and reads in full:
“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.” - Snopes
JOE BIDEN IS KNOWN TO LASH OUT AT INDIVIDUALS WHO QUESTION HIM
Biden told a Detroit autoworker they are “full of sh**!” and told him to not be “such a horses a**!” - Fox News
Biden lashed out at a New Hampshire voter calling her a “lying dog-faced pony soldier.” - The Gateway Pundit
Biden tore into an Iowa democrat voter over his question about Hunter Biden’s shady Ukraine work. “Former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday (12/5/19) got in a tense back-and-forth with an audience member during an Iowa campaign stop after the man made debunked claims that the former vice president sent his son Hunter Biden to work for an energy company in Ukraine. "You're a damn liar, man. That's not true," Biden shot back at the man, who said the claims, which have been circulated by some on the right, were backed up by reporting on television. After some cross-talk, Biden told the man, "By the way ... I'm not sedentary," before going on to challenge him to a push-up contest and other physical tests.” - The Hill
