Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has made several statements in recent years that can be seen as racist. The use of ambiguous language seems to be rooted in the former vice president’s family. According to recently released documents, some ancestors of the politician were slaveholders.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s racist comments during an interview this May have triggered a huge scandal across the United States. Biden said “if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” Ironically, reporter Charlamagne tha God – co-host of The Breakfast Club, a popular radio show – happens to be black.
This was not the first time that Biden, Barack Obama’s vice president, has made statements with racist and even white supremacist overtones.
At an event in 2019 he said “we have this notion that somehow if you are poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.”
Following the speech, his campaign staff published a statement in an attempt to explain what Biden was saying.
In 2012, when Mitt Romney was Barack Obama’s challenger for the presidency, Biden told a crowd of mostly African American people at a campaign event that the Republican candidate would “put you all back in chains.”
In 2017, he made derogatory comments about Barack Obama himself.
“You got the first… sort of… mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and nice-looking guy. I mean that’s a storybook, man.”
The leftist press in the US tends to sweep these statements under the rug, especially now, in the final stretch of the election campaign. Glenn Beck, a conservative political commentator and a former Fox News host, however, has revealed documents which put the above statements in a completely different light.
Accordingly, the full name of the former vice-president is Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. He was named Robinette after his father, and having this middle name appears to be a family tradition.
The documents published by Beck trace ancestors to the sixth generation in Biden’s family tree. They include records of official US federal censuses and go back as far as 1776, to a certain Jesse Robinette.
The documents show that Jesse Robinette owned several slaves.
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According to records, Biden’s ancestor had 12 slaves in 1820:
- 5 male slaves, aged 14-25;
- 2 male slaves, aged 26-44;
- 3 female slaves, aged 0-13;
- 1 female slave, aged 14- 25;
- 1 female slave, aged 45+.
According to a document dated 1832, Jesse Robinette refused to free his slaves after he passed away. Instead, he passed them on to his family.
Dorcas Robinette was given a boy named Benjamin worth 450 dollars. She also received a girl named Nancy, who was also worth 450 dollars. Another girl called Mary was valued at 250 dollars, while Nathan was worth 600 dollars. Jno Davis and his wife Alice (Jesse Robinette’s daughter) got Bob valued at 600 dollars. Jas Robinette received Tom valued at 600 dollars, while George Robinette was given two boys, Charles – valued at 350 dollars – and Solomon, who was worth 250 dollars. Moses J Robinette, a minor, inherited Joshua who was valued at 600 dollars, while Eliza Ann Robinette, also a minor, received Pero worth 300 dollars and Elin, worth 200 dollars.
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(Photo: V4 Agency)Glenn Beck says the documents come from research by a renowned genealogy research company but did not disclose the name of the firm.