A defiant Joe Biden on Wednesday refused to apologize for citing two Southern segregationist senators as people he “got things done” with in the U.S. Senate.
A defiant Joe Biden on Wednesday refused to apologize for citing two Southern segregationist senators as people he “got things done” with in the U.S. Senate, emphasizing his record on civil rights at a pair of fundraising stops and striking a confrontational tone when asked about the controversy swirling around his comments.
“I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland,” Biden said, briefly imitating the Mississippi senator’s accent. “He never called me ‘boy,’ he always called me ‘son.’” “Men like James O. Eastland used words like that, and the racist policies that accompanied them, to perpetuate white supremacy and strip black Americans of our very humanity,” the New Jersey senator continued. “Frankly, I’m disappointed that he hasn’t issued an immediate apology for the pain his words are dredging up for many Americans.”
As a crowd of 150 enthusiastic supporters packed shoulder-to-shoulder in Tim Shriver’s Chevy Chase, Md., living room, Biden spoke about his time on the Senate Judiciary Committee and said: “We had to put up with the likes of, like, Jim Eastland and Hermy Talmadge and all those segregationists and all of that. And the fact of the matter is that we were able to do it because we were able to win — we were able to beat them on everything they stood for.
poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201906/1007/1155968404_6050196518001_6050201622001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404"Both Eastland and Talmadge were high-profile segregationists in the Senate. Eastland, a former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was a plantation owner who spoke of black people as “an inferior race.
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