Posted on 01/27/2020 1:57:24 PM PST by conservative98
DES MOINES, Iowa — Joe Biden spoke of his connection to black voters at an NAACP event Sunday afternoon and claimed his “political identity” was molded by minorities in his home state of Delaware.
“I have a lot of black support because that’s where I come from. I was raised in the black church, politically, not a joke,” the former vice president said in Des Moines. “When I got into politics, I was the only white guy working on the east side, in the projects, because these were the guys I grew up with. These were the guys I worked with.”
Biden addressed a packed room of roughly 100 people, mostly white, at a minority outreach organization called Urban Dreams. Although he appeared roughly 30 minutes after his start, attendees continued trickling in before he addressed the crowd.
He spoke extensively on his consistent support from black Democrats, which a number of polls show back him by double-digits over his rivals. That consistent support, Biden said, was because of his decades-long relationship with black voters that started when he was a city council member in Wilmington, Delaware. During his time as a local politician, Biden said he would “go to a black church after regular mass every Sunday.”
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I have little doubt that this is BS, but you have to carefully read what he said: “I was raised in the black church, politically...when I got into politics, I was the only white guy working on the east side, in the projects”. He’s not saying he was raised in the black church, but when he started looking for votes he went to black churches to find them.
Get read for the quadrennial Democrat “Black churches are burning” fake news campaign.
Reminds me of the opening line in the Steve Martin movie The Jerk... I was born a poor Black child.
Oh yeah, Delaware was such a hotbed of racial activism in the ‘60s....NOT!
Was the black Reverend ‘Articulate’ And ‘Clean’?
Yep! And Hillary was bawn a po Black chile. One almost has to feel sorry for the Blacks because of the misery the Democrats heaps upon them. And likewise the Indians for Elizabeth Warren.
Virtue signaling vulture was there to sniff around. What a sorry excuse for American politics. No sale, Joke.
Give Biden a break. He lost his son Kobe yesterday.
I thought Kobe was 0bama’s son.
In a boring meeting in a big conference room when i read that. Geez, you almost got me busted.
Rev. Wright’s church? Maybe.
Is this where he met Corn Pop? Is that Corn Pop’s mother?
I wish I could triple like your comment. Truer words were never spoken!
.....while politicking for segregation?
It’s a real hell hole!
100 people in packed room - way to go, Joe!
We are both correct. ;)
Yeah, I heard those projects on the east side of Scranton are pretty tough. Lots of paper salesmen fight for turf over there.
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