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  • Biden Burnishes His Civil Rights Credentials at MLK Breakfast

    01/21/2014 9:07:05 AM PST · by IbJensen · 27 replies
    CNS News ^ | 1/21/2014 | Susan Jones
    (CNSNews.com) - "I don't need a teleprompter," Vice President Joe Biden said as he rose to speak at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day Breakfast in Washington on Monday. He then launched into a speech full of political anecdotes, memories of his early activism in the civil rights movement, and indignation about alleged attempts to curb voting rights. Biden said he got involved in the civil rights movement "when I was just a kid." "The issue that really got me involved in the first place -- I was the only white kid working in the East Side (of Scranton, Pa.)...I...