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Joe Biden's "racial jungle" comment, as confirmed by none other than SNOPES!
Did Joe Biden Say He Didn’t Want His Kids Growing Up in a ‘Racial Jungle’?
The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate's history with busing has haunted him on the campaign trail.
10 March 2020
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-racial-jungle-quote/
The quote is accurate as reported and reads in full:
"Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point. We have got to make some move on this."
We contacted the Biden campaign for comment but received no response in time for publication.
Biden made the remark in 1977 during a hearing about busing school children in order to desegregate public schools. As The New York Times reported in a detailed delineation of Biden’s history with busing, Biden at the time had emerged as the Democratic party’s crusader against busing, taking the same side as segregationists. Biden “joined up with Jesse Helms, the segregationist senator from North Carolina, to offer his own anti-busing amendment to that year’s education spending bill.” Biden’s “advocacy made it safe for other Democrats to oppose busing,” The Times reported.
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