Biden Starts Talking About Race Again, and It Goes off the Rails – Opinion

I want to tell the Biden people to just stop putting Joe Biden out there to speak because every time he does, it’s just so embarrassing and wearing on the country to deal with all his gaffes, lies, and confusion. Can’t they even stop him from repeating the things he’s been called out for lying about in the past? I realize that’s an ever-growing list, but it’s bad when he keeps telling the same lies — like the ones about guns that he told in NYC earlier on Thursday.

Then there is his ongoing issue with race.

Warning on the following clip: you might feel transported back to the 1950s because that’s where Joe Biden’s mind seems to be with one racial term he uses. When he’s not directly reading off the script or the teleprompter, he gets into trouble. But whenever he starts telling a story about his past, dollars to donuts, you’re going to get something that isn’t even close to being true.

BIDEN: “I said, ‘Mom, why are all those kids— it was then called colored— why are all those COLORED KIDS in that bus?”

It is a true quote. pic.twitter.com/w7ypNvWU2o

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) February 3, 2022

Yikes. These are snide comments. I’m not sure why he was telling this story — beyond the ramblings of a man whose mind is not all there — or why he felt the need to include the term, except that he’s stuck back in that time.

Biden, however, said that his mother would take him to Holy Rosary Catholic elementary school in Claymont, Delaware. There he met black children on the bus, which was near Section 8.

“I said, ‘Mom, why are all those kids— it was then called colored— why are all those colored kids in that bus?” He said he commented on it “because, in Scranton, there weren’t any, there were very few blacks.”

His mother told him that “they’re not allowed to go to school with us here in Delaware.”

It is difficult to make sense of any Biden story, as there are often so few truths or sense. So, if I can dissect it a little bit, it sounds like he’s saying he was sent to a segregated private school. It’s a bit scary. It would have been when they had moved to Claymont (DE) from Scranton, when he was around 10.

Joe Biden was correct, Scranton had black residents. Maybe you didn’t absorb it or maybe you lived in a more segregated area. Saying that there wasn’t, now when you’re an adult and should know better, is a denial of the history of the black people that did live in the area. Scranton even had a role in the “Underground Railroad.”

Biden speaks then of Section 8 housing. Section 8 housing didn’t start until 1974. What is he really saying? It sounds like he’s using the term as a dog whistle to describe the housing.

As I mentioned, there are very few chances that this tale will be true. But, he seems to think it makes him look more ‘woke’ rather than cringeworthy.

This is the man with a long history on race issues. You can recall his fight with Kamala Haris during the Democratic primary, in which he got into a heated argument over race and also for supporting segregationists. This is the same guy who said he didn’t want his kids to “grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle,” and who said, approvingly at the time, “we (Delawareans) were on the South’s side in the Civil War.”

Fast forward to the 2020 general election campaign, where he said that if black Americans didn’t know that they should be voting for him, they “ain’t black.” He also claimed that black people weren’t as “diverse” as Latino people, and that “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.”

I don’t know how they solve the problem they have with Joe Biden. You can’t hide him away and they can’t get him to stop being who he is: a racist old codger whose mind is no longer all there.