https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-segregationist-senators-civility_n_5d0a352ae4b0e560b70c6f46
From the article:
Joe Biden, the 76-year-old former vice president who hopes to secure the Democratic presidential nomination, invoked a time of more “civility” in politics at a Tuesday night fundraiser by naming two unapologetically racist past colleagues.
Speaking at a New York City hotel, Biden recalled his working relationships with the late Sens. James Eastland (D-Miss.) and Herman Talmadge (D-Ga.), who served under a much more uneven Democratic party platform. Both men fiercely opposed desegregation.
One of the senators reportedly advocated for genocide of black Americans.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Robert Caro reported that Eastland once publicly stated that pro-segregation efforts were being stymied by “black, slimy, juicy, unbearably stinking n****rs.” According to Caro, Eastland essentially called for black American genocide: “When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to abolish the Negro race, proper methods should be used. Among these are guns, bows and arrows, slingshots and knives.”
First elected in 1942, Eastland voiced open derision for black people, once calling the Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education ― which led to public school desegregation ― a “monstrous crime.” His 1986 New York Times obituary stated that he was “best known nationally as a symbol of Southern resistance to racial desegregation” and noted that he frequently complained about “possible ‘mongrelization’ of the races” on the Senate floor.
Yet he wielded considerable power in the Senate Judiciary Committee, serving as its chairman for 22 years. According to an obituary in the Los Angeles Times, Eastland once forced President John F. Kennedy to name an ally of his to the federal bench in exchange for backing Kennedy’s Supreme Court pick, Thurgood Marshall.
From the Los Angeles Times:
I still think he'll fizzle out in the primary like he did before.
From the article:
Joe Biden, the 76-year-old former vice president who hopes to secure the Democratic presidential nomination, invoked a time of more “civility” in politics at a Tuesday night fundraiser by naming two unapologetically racist past colleagues.
Speaking at a New York City hotel, Biden recalled his working relationships with the late Sens. James Eastland (D-Miss.) and Herman Talmadge (D-Ga.), who served under a much more uneven Democratic party platform. Both men fiercely opposed desegregation.
One of the senators reportedly advocated for genocide of black Americans.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Robert Caro reported that Eastland once publicly stated that pro-segregation efforts were being stymied by “black, slimy, juicy, unbearably stinking n****rs.” According to Caro, Eastland essentially called for black American genocide: “When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to abolish the Negro race, proper methods should be used. Among these are guns, bows and arrows, slingshots and knives.”
First elected in 1942, Eastland voiced open derision for black people, once calling the Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education ― which led to public school desegregation ― a “monstrous crime.” His 1986 New York Times obituary stated that he was “best known nationally as a symbol of Southern resistance to racial desegregation” and noted that he frequently complained about “possible ‘mongrelization’ of the races” on the Senate floor.
Yet he wielded considerable power in the Senate Judiciary Committee, serving as its chairman for 22 years. According to an obituary in the Los Angeles Times, Eastland once forced President John F. Kennedy to name an ally of his to the federal bench in exchange for backing Kennedy’s Supreme Court pick, Thurgood Marshall.
From the Los Angeles Times:
By one account, which originated with the late Robert F. Kennedy, Eastland told the then-attorney general: “You tell your brother if he gives me [Harold] Cox, I will give him his n****r.”
This is more baggage than Hillary's emails.. infact it threatens the very base. But if people think the far left is too extreme (according to main stream media which is why they're fawning over Biden).. so I might be wrong.. LOLs.I still think he'll fizzle out in the primary like he did before.