Biden goes incoherent in speech on schools

 Nick Arama:

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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.

Yikes. What is the point of making these cringeworthy 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.

But Biden said his mother would drive him to Holy Rosary Catholic Elementary School in Claymont, Delaware, and where he saw black kids on a bus near the Section 8 housing.

“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.”

Now, walking through any Biden story for sense is perhaps a futile effort, because frequently there is so little sense or reality to it. So, if I can dissect it a little bit, it sounds like he’s saying he was sent to a segregated private school. Yikes again. That would have been after they moved to Claymont, DE, from Scranton when he was about 10.

Then yes, Joe Biden, Scranton did have black people. 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 then talks about Section 8 housing? Section 8 housing didn’t start until 1974. So, what is he saying here? It sounds like he’s using the term as a dog whistle to describe the housing.

Now, as I said, the chances of this story being true is probably little to none. But, he seems to think it makes him look more ‘woke’ rather than cringeworthy.

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Biden is older than I am, but I know there was no Section 8 housing until around the time I was in law school and that is after coming back from being an officer in the Marine Corps in Vietnam.  I suspect Biden was a Senator when Section 8 housing came about.  He is not even in the right state with this story.