Members of black church refute Biden’s assertion that he was ‘raised’ there
Oct 15, 2020 12:45:08 #
By Marie Finn—american action news
October 13, 2020
stingrayschuller via Wikimedia Commons
Joe Biden’s campaign rally claim that he was “raised in the black church politically” and “involved in the civil rights movement” as a teenager has been contradicted by church officials.
During the Democratic primary in January, Biden proclaimed at an NAACP event in Iowa that his political identity was molded by time spent attending a black church. “I was raised in the black church politically — not a joke,” he said to the audience. “That’s what I’m part of. That’s where my political identity comes from. And it’s the single most loyal constituency I’ve ever had.”
Days later at Bethlehem Baptist Church in South Carolina, Biden detailed his involvement with the black community as a youth. “When I was a teenager in Delaware, for real, I got involved in the civil rights movement,” he claimed. “I got my education, for real, in the black church, and that’s not hyperbole, it’s a fact.”
Biden went on to cite specifics about the church and anti-segregation protests he became involved with. “I’d go to 8 o’clock Mass, then I’d go to Reverend Herring’s church where we’d meet in order to organize and figure where we were going to go, whether we were going to desegregate the Rialto movie theater or what we were going to do.”
Civil rights activist Shaun King wrote that the former Vice President’s “absurd” assertions were untrue. He claims that Biden is “falsely claiming” that Reverend Herring was his mentor in 1960. “Four different people in Wilmington expressed to me that these claims of Biden are so outrageous and dishonest that it caused them to truly worry for his mental health.”
Now members of Union Baptist Church, formerly run by Herring, have gone on record to contradict the Democratic nominee’s claims. Herring’s decades-long assistant, Phyllis Drummond, told The Washington Free Beacon Biden didn’t attend church there in the sixties. “No. Not at our building.”
Another longtime member of the church, Juanita Matthew, said Biden had become “a great friend of the church and pastor,” years later after his wife and daughter were k**led in a 1972 car accident.
Biden himself has contradicted his own claims in a 1987 press conference, noting that he was concerned about the civil rights movement in the “60s, but “I was not an activist.”
He cited a 1962 job at an all-black swimming pool in Wilmington as the first time he got a “dose of exposure” to racial disparity. “It was an incredible awakening to me.”
It was also when he was 20-years-old, and not during his teenage years as he claimed. The former church members who spoke to King might be right to worry about Biden’s mental health.
Source: By Marie Finn—american action news
October 13, 2020
stingrayschuller via Wikimedia Commons
Joe Biden’s campaign rally claim that he was “raised in the black church politically” and “involved in the civil rights movement” as a teenager has been contradicted by church officials.
During the Democratic primary in January, Biden proclaimed at an NAACP event in Iowa that his political identity was molded by time spent attending a black church. “I was raised in the black church politically — not a joke,” he said to the audience. “That’s what I’m part of. That’s where my political identity comes from. And it’s the single most loyal constituency I’ve ever had.”
Days later at Bethlehem Baptist Church in South Carolina, Biden detailed his involvement with the black community as a youth. “When I was a teenager in Delaware, for real, I got involved in the civil rights movement,” he claimed. “I got my education, for real, in the black church, and that’s not hyperbole, it’s a fact.”
Biden went on to cite specifics about the church and anti-segregation protests he became involved with. “I’d go to 8 o’clock Mass, then I’d go to Reverend Herring’s church where we’d meet in order to organize and figure where we were going to go, whether we were going to desegregate the Rialto movie theater or what we were going to do.”
Civil rights activist Shaun King wrote that the former Vice President’s “absurd” assertions were untrue. He claims that Biden is “falsely claiming” that Reverend Herring was his mentor in 1960. “Four different people in Wilmington expressed to me that these claims of Biden are so outrageous and dishonest that it caused them to truly worry for his mental health.”
Now members of Union Baptist Church, formerly run by Herring, have gone on record to contradict the Democratic nominee’s claims. Herring’s decades-long assistant, Phyllis Drummond, told The Washington Free Beacon Biden didn’t attend church there in the sixties. “No. Not at our building.”
Another longtime member of the church, Juanita Matthew, said Biden had become “a great friend of the church and pastor,” years later after his wife and daughter were k**led in a 1972 car accident.
Biden himself has contradicted his own claims in a 1987 press conference, noting that he was concerned about the civil rights movement in the “60s, but “I was not an activist.”
He cited a 1962 job at an all-black swimming pool in Wilmington as the first time he got a “dose of exposure” to racial disparity. “It was an incredible awakening to me.”
It was also when he was 20-years-old, and not during his teenage years as he claimed. The former church members who spoke to King might be right to worry about Biden’s mental health.
Source: By Marie Finn—american action news
Oct 15, 2020 13:06:27 #
thebigp wrote:
By Marie Finn—american action news br October 13, ... (show quote)
“That’s what I’m part of. That’s where my political identity comes from. And it’s the single most loyal constituency I’ve ever had.”
That right there is the only thing he went there for...a foundering attempt to clutch the black-v**e-life-ring and he's missed it.
Too bad, so sad. Probably not the first time he's told that lie and they were ready for him.
Oct 15, 2020 13:12:04 #
thebigp wrote:
By Marie Finn—american action news br October 13, ... (show quote)
Today's Democratic Party apparently has a policy wherein its politicians are free to say wh**ever they feel they need to say for political expediency, up to and including fictionalizing their resumes, revising "facts" to meet the needs of the moment and making promises they have no intention of even trying to keep.
Biden is obviously a dedicated observer of this policy. If he says it's a beautiful, sunny day, bring an umbrella.
Oct 15, 2020 13:14:38 #
BigMike wrote:
“That’s what I’m part of. That’s where my political identity comes from. And it’s the single most loyal constituency I’ve ever had.”
That right there is the only thing he went there for...a foundering attempt to clutch the black-v**e-life-ring and he's missed it.
Too bad, so sad. Probably not the first time he's told that lie and they were ready for him.
That right there is the only thing he went there for...a foundering attempt to clutch the black-v**e-life-ring and he's missed it.
Too bad, so sad. Probably not the first time he's told that lie and they were ready for him.
He has nothing to say but more lies. Maybe his memory is so bad, he has to make it all up. Sad, but sometimes it’s better to forget. Yes?
Oct 15, 2020 13:14:41 #
Seth wrote:
Today's Democratic Party apparently has a policy wherein its politicians are free to say wh**ever they feel they need to say for political expediency, up to and including fictionalizing their resumes, revising "facts" to meet the needs of the moment and making promises they have no intention of even trying to keep.
Biden is obviously a dedicated observer of this policy. If he says it's a beautiful, sunny day, bring an umbrella.
Biden is obviously a dedicated observer of this policy. If he says it's a beautiful, sunny day, bring an umbrella.
...and a shotgun.
Oct 15, 2020 13:16:10 #
Carol Kelly wrote:
He has nothing to say but more lies. Maybe his memory is so bad, he has to make it all up. Sad, but sometimes it’s better to forget. Yes?
Only if you're not trying to keep your story straight.
Oct 15, 2020 13:23:09 #
Oct 15, 2020 13:37:53 #
Oct 15, 2020 13:39:46 #
Carol Kelly wrote:
He has nothing to say but more lies. Maybe his memory is so bad, he has to make it all up. Sad, but sometimes it’s better to forget. Yes?
Maybe he could take a shortcut and avoid having to tell tall tales by the simple expedient of "always carrying a bottle of hot sauce."
Oct 15, 2020 14:02:51 #
Seth wrote:
Maybe he could take a shortcut and avoid having to tell tall tales by the simple expedient of "always carrying a bottle of hot sauce."
It could work. When I lived in Jacksonville I always kept a pouch of Red Man on the dash in case I got stopped by the cops. Never got a ticket. Not even for doing doughnuts on Daytona Beach.
Oct 15, 2020 14:17:14 #
BigMike wrote:
It could work. When I lived in Jacksonville I always kept a pouch of Red Man on the dash in case I got stopped by the cops. Never got a ticket. Not even for doing doughnuts on Daytona Beach.
Instant ticket repellent.
Oct 16, 2020 06:37:44 #
thebigp wrote:
By Marie Finn—american action news br October 13, ... (show quote)
I think Biden was born lying.
Oct 16, 2020 12:49:59 #
Tug484 wrote:
I think Biden was born lying.
Reminds me of a joke the Cryptkeeper on Tales From the Crypt told once:
"What do dead liars do?
They lie still!
Oct 16, 2020 16:32:39 #
BigMike wrote:
Reminds me of a joke the Cryptkeeper on Tales From the Crypt told once:
"What do dead liars do?
They lie still!
"What do dead liars do?
They lie still!
Lol.
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