Biden’s Troubling Past Concerning Racial Inequality

Democrat Presidential candidate Joe Biden has spent decades in government, and his track record on racial inequality is troubling. For example:

• Biden has spent decades lying that he was a part of the Civil Rights movement, falsely claiming he marched and helped desegregate businesses
• Even after admitting he never marched, Biden has started repeating this lie again and claimed he came out of the Civil Rights movement
• Biden even invented a story this year that he was arrested trying to see Nelson Mandela, a lie he had to walk back because there is “no evidence” this ever occurred
• Biden spent his early years in the Senate actively opposing integration efforts
• Biden worked with segregationists to oppose busing to help desegregate schools, saying he did not want his children growing up in a “racial jungle”
• In 1979, Biden voted to protect the tax-exempt status of segregated private schools
• In the early 1970s, Biden even lived in a home with a racially restricted deed

Biden has bragged about working with segregationists and racists, praising his relationships with them

• Biden eulogized multiple segregationists, including Strom Thurmond and former KKK member Robert Byrd
• As recently as last year, Biden bragged about his positive relationship with segregationist Senators like James Eastland and Herman Talmadge
• In 1987, Biden bragged about receiving an award from Alabama Governor George Wallace
• In 1975, Biden said the Democrats needed a “liberal George Wallace, someone who’s not afraid to stand up and offend people”

Biden bragged about Delaware being a slave state and honored Confederate leaders

• In 2006, Biden said Delaware did not fight as part of the South during the Civil War “because we couldn’t figure out how to get” there
• In 1993, Biden said those who display the Confederate flag are “fine people”
• In the 1970s, Biden voted to restore U.S. citizenship for Confederate leaders Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis

Biden has a long history of race baiting and racially offensive comments

• In May, Biden told Black Americans “you ain’t Black” if they do not support him
• Biden has repeatedly equated being a minority with being poor and illiterate
• Biden has referred to Black Americans as “boy,” “colored,” and “predators” who are “beyond the pale”
• In 2012, Biden said Republicans would put Black Americans “back in chains”
• During the 2008 election, Biden called Barack Obama “articulate” and “clean”
• In 2007, Biden talked about going into the “black sections” of town
• In 1985, Biden referred to Black singer at a Democratic fundraising dinner as “Michael Jackson” and “Prince”
• In 1974, Biden compared himself to a “token black”
• In 1973, Biden referred to slaves as “brothers”