Despite the name-calling endured by Donald Trump, it’s actually Joe Biden who has a decades-long history of making overtly racist remarks and taking discriminatory positions.
Within the past week, a video is going viral of President Joe Biden saying that the “workers without high school diplomas” in the U.S. are “African American and Hispanic workers.”
“We’ve created 13.4 million new jobs,” Biden claimed. “We not only recovered all the jobs we lost during the pandemic, we’ve added millions more.”
“We’ve seen record lows in unemployment, particularly — and I’ve focused on this my whole career — particularly for African Americans and Hispanic workers and veterans, you know, the workers without high-school diplomas,” he continued. “The lowest unemployment rate in 70 years for women now.”
BIDEN: "…particularly for African Americans and Hispanic workers and veterans — you know, the workers without high school diplomas" pic.twitter.com/CZyCx23M8Z
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 14, 2023
Biden’s offensive comments came during a speech at Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Maryland.
Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT), who is black, said, “Another day, another racist comment from Biden. Crickets from the mainstream media. I keep saying I am almost 51 years old and Joe Biden is the most explicitly racist president in my lifetime,” said attorney Aaron Walker. “Good lord.”
National GOP spokeswoman Madison Gesiotto Gilbert said, “Nooo, he didn’t.”
Later in the speech, Biden appeared to admit that he discriminated when hiring his cabinet and judicial nominations.
“You know, and, by the way, when I got elected, I promised that I wanted an administration that would look like America,” Biden said. “I got more women in the Cabinet than any president has ever in history. And I got more women — more women than men in the Cabinet,” he said.
“And I put more black women on the appellate court and the Supreme Court than every other president combined in American history.”
The mainstream media is accuse of giving Biden a “free pass” by failing to scrutinize these remarks. Here’s a look at some of Biden’s other racially-charged comments:
• In August 2020, Biden told black and Hispanic journalists that “unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.”
• In May 2020, Biden notoriously told a largely black audience that if they were unsure of whether to vote for him or Trump, then “you ain’t black!”
• In the same interview with Charlamagne Tha God, Biden said he won’t take a cognitive exam because that’s similar to asking a black person if they are a drug addict. Biden said, “That’s like saying you, before you got in this program, you’re take [sic] a test whether you’re taking cocaine or not. What do you think? Huh? Are you a junkie?”
• In 2010, Biden praised Sen. Robert Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan member, by saying he was “one of my mentors” and that “the Senate is a lesser place for his going.”
• In 2007, Biden said Barack Obama was “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean.”
• In 2006, Biden said, “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”
• Back in 1977, Biden said that forced busing to desegregate schools would cause his children to “grow up in a racial jungle.”
