6 minutes agoI miss Joe Biden. He calls Trump “the first racist president” even though some ancestors were slaves
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate for president of the United States, has called current President Donald Trump the first racist president of the United States”, even though several previous presidents were black slave owners. Beden's comments came during an online campaign organised by the International Public Service Workers Union when one [...]
Beden's comments came during an online campaign organised by the International Public Service Workers Union, when a participant complained to him about Mr. Trump over the Devi-19 crisis.
Mr. Beden then attacked Trump for his “decoupling racism”, citing the phrases he had used as the Chinese “virus” to describe the choreographer, reports The Guardian, translated Periscopi.
The way I treat people based on the color of their skin, of their national origin, of their backgrounds, is absolutely terrifying,” said Beden. No incumbent president has done this. ”
Never, ever, ever. No Republican president has ever done that. No Democrat president,” he went on. “We had racists, and they existed. They've tried to elect presidents. He's the first to make it. ”
In fact, the U.S. had previously also had slave presidents like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, but others who had had very racist attitudes like Woodrow Wilson among others. /Periscope
