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Biden Sparks Backlash After Referring To Black Children As ‘Colored Kids’ During First Major Remarks Since Leaving WH
One America News ^ | April 15, 2025 | Abril Elfi

Posted on 04/16/2025 7:42:07 AM PDT by Navy Patriot

Former President Joe Biden made his first public remarks since leaving the White House, referring to Black children as “colored kids”—a comment that quickly sparked backlash online, including criticism from voices on the left.

On Tuesday, Biden told an anecdote about his childhood migration from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Wilmington, Delaware, in which he remarked that until his family moved to “The First State,” he had “never seen hardly any Black people.”

“I was only going in fourth grade,” Biden stated, as he recalled his mother driving him to Catholic school in Wilmington. “And I remember seeing kids going by, at the time called ‘colored kids,’ on a bus go by — they never turned right to go to Claymont High School.”

He went on to say that discovering Black children were banned from attending public schools with White students “sparked my sense of outrage as a kid.”

Meanwhile, many social media users were taken aback by the “colored kids” remark, with one user posting: “Imagine if President Trump referred to Black kids as ‘colored kids.’ The liberals would be fake outraged and they wouldn’t shut up for days. So, who’s the actual racist?”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; bidenlegacy; chat; chicago; racism
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To: 9YearLurker
But I can’t believe I might be defending Biden on something!

Yeah. Me too, see above...

21 posted on 04/16/2025 7:59:14 AM PDT by null and void (Start with the jab, end on a slab)
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To: ncfool

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22 posted on 04/16/2025 7:59:25 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: cgbg

Biden was certainty ni — I mean to say, parsimonious — with his discourse on Niger


23 posted on 04/16/2025 7:59:32 AM PDT by Old West Conservative
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To: Liz

It’s true about the long term memory being sharp but short term is a complete train wreck.


24 posted on 04/16/2025 8:02:30 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Navy Patriot
Biden's “colored kids” remark is OKKK with DemoKKKrats, and always has been

Biden is 80+ years old and demented.

I really don't see a problem with this language.

25 posted on 04/16/2025 8:03:19 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: ncfool

I remember what may have been Jerry Stiller’s last appearance on Fallon’s show. Anne Meara was there, and maybe Ben. It was obvious that Jerry was losing it. When he noticed, and started talking about the band, The Roots, things got awkward in a big hurry. Everyone was uncomfortable. I don’t think it was a racist thing...just that his (Biden’s) generation has a different perspective on these things. That said, I suspect Brandon harbors some racist tendencies.


26 posted on 04/16/2025 8:03:22 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Navy Patriot

the dems keep playing the race card. Orange man bad, and its racist is all they got. Pathetic.


27 posted on 04/16/2025 8:03:53 AM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: pepsi_junkie

I was going to say, but you already did.

Isn’t People of Color, i.e. non-whites, on the approved list?


28 posted on 04/16/2025 8:04:55 AM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: Navy Patriot

They’re pissed about what he called them, not that the story is an outright lie.


29 posted on 04/16/2025 8:05:50 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: null and void

“...colored was the polite term.” Yes, and now it has been decreed as ‘racist’. ‘Negro’ was also the polite term, and yet it too is now considered racist. More recently the word slave has been replaced with ‘enslaved person’. There is just no pleasing some people.


30 posted on 04/16/2025 8:06:13 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: null and void

I remember living in Richmond, CA in the Hilltop area—a new family moved in—It was I remember, Joe Banks, of the Harlem Globe Trotters. He had a couple of kids, girls maybe and I went over to ask if they could come out an play, which was appropriate at the time. Joe politely said no—I said I never saw chocolate people before, at at that point in my life, blacks did not live in that part of Richmond and we did not have any blacks in those area schools. We had kids of asian descent and mexican descent—but not black. Oh well I thought and went about my afternoon. I must have been pretty bored that day to seek out girls to play with as we all knew at that age—that girls had cooties and such...


31 posted on 04/16/2025 8:06:25 AM PDT by abigkahuna
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To: pepsi_junkie

Yup, that pronoun thing again with the left.


32 posted on 04/16/2025 8:06:49 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: ncfool

Exactly.


33 posted on 04/16/2025 8:07:08 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: ncfool

They probably used a different word to describe those kids on the bus, but Biden cleaned it up.


34 posted on 04/16/2025 8:07:28 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: Col Frank Slade
It’s true about the long term memory being sharp but short term is a complete train wreck.

Long term memory also vanishes eventually. My mom is at that stage now.

35 posted on 04/16/2025 8:07:38 AM PDT by null and void (Start with the jab, end on a slab)
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To: hanamizu

At all ever.


36 posted on 04/16/2025 8:07:44 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Jim Noble
Biden is 80+ years old and demented Degenerate.
37 posted on 04/16/2025 8:07:54 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: PGR88

Supposedly, WSJ is claiming that Pedo Joe paid for the time for his retarded rant at trash President Trump with all the “little colored kids” and probably some “breakfast tacos” watching. Somebody needs to tell Joe Pedo he helped get President Trump reelected.


38 posted on 04/16/2025 8:07:55 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Tonight! Vote With Your Remote! Watch Joe Pedo for TV President of the Liberal Disjointed States. )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Brandon. The Gift That Keeps Giving!

You misspelled 'grift'...

39 posted on 04/16/2025 8:08:53 AM PDT by null and void (Start with the jab, end on a slab)
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To: 9YearLurker

““And I remember seeing kids going by, at the time called ‘colored kids,’ on a bus go by — they never turned right to go to Claymont High School.””

To be fair he did say “at the time”.


40 posted on 04/16/2025 8:09:31 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Trump may be one of our greatest Presidents, if they don't kill him first.)
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