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{"id":43435,"date":"2020-06-16T00:21:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T00:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/biden-called-confederate-heritage-group-fine-people\/"},"modified":"2020-06-16T00:21:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T00:21:15","slug":"biden-called-confederate-heritage-group-fine-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/virusreports.net\/biden-called-confederate-heritage-group-fine-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden called Confederate heritage group &#8216;fine people&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A recently resurfaced <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewBatesNC\/status\/1271533122606247936\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video clip<\/a> shows Joe Biden calling\u00a0members of a Confederate heritage group &#8220;fine people&#8221; in 1993 &#8212; nearly mirroring President Trump&#8217;s 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/article\/2019\/apr\/26\/context-trumps-very-fine-people-both-sides-remarks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">remarks<\/a> that some protesters opposing the removal of Confederate statues in Charlottesville, Va., were &#8220;very fine people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden declared\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VbOU2fTg6cI\">his 2020 presidential candidacy<\/a>\u00a0last year by charging that Trump, in those controversial comments,\u00a0had &#8220;assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it.&#8221;\u00a0Although Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/article\/2019\/apr\/26\/context-trumps-very-fine-people-both-sides-remarks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">noted<\/a>\u00a0at the time\u00a0that he was &#8220;not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists\u00a0because they should be condemned totally,&#8221; Democrats and some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/gop-leaders-criticize-trumps-response-to-charlottesville-violence-1502590777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top Republicans<\/a> were highly critical of his language.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?46064-1\/ginsburg-confirmation-hearing-day-3-part-4\">speaking at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on July 22, 1993<\/a>, during the confirmation process for Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Biden himself offered something of a positive endorsement for the\u00a0United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), which has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/10\/06\/7-things-the-united-daughters-of-the-confederacy-might-not-want-you-to-know-about-them_partner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">linked<\/a> to the\u00a0Ku Klux Klan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI, too, heard that speech and, for the public listening to this, the senator made a very moving and eloquent speech,&#8221; Biden said, referring to remarks by then-Alabama Democratic Sen. Howell Thomas Heflin. &#8220;As\u00a0a son of the\u00a0Confederacy, acknowledging that it was time to change and yield to a position that Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun raised on the Senate floor, not granting a federal charter to an organization made up of many\u00a0fine\u00a0people\u00a0who continue to display the\u00a0Confederate flag as a symbol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was a reference to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?c4504504\/user-clip-il-senator-carol-moseley-braun-argues-confederate-trademark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mosely-Braun&#8217;s remarks<\/a>\u00a0earlier in the day concerning the UDP, an organization that Salon has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/10\/06\/7-things-the-united-daughters-of-the-confederacy-might-not-want-you-to-know-about-them_partner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;keeps Confederate statues standing\u00a0and spreads lies\u00a0about America\u2019s history of slavery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[S]ince the UDC was founded in 1894, it has maintained a covert connection with the Ku Klux Klan,&#8221;\u00a0Heidi Christensen, the former president of the Seattle\u00a0chapter of the UDC, told Salon.\u00a0&#8220;In fact, in many ways, the group was the de facto women\u2019s auxiliary of the KKK at the turn of the century. It\u2019s a connection the group downplays now, but evidence of it is easily discoverable \u2014 you don\u2019t even have to look very hard to find it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Salon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/10\/06\/7-things-the-united-daughters-of-the-confederacy-might-not-want-you-to-know-about-them_partner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">noted<\/a> that the UDC has published pro-KKK books and established pro-KKK monuments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery clubhouse of the United Daughters of the Confederacy should have a memorial tablet dedicated to the Ku Klux Klan; that would be a monument not to one man, but to five hundred and fifty thousand men, to whom all Southerners owe a debt of gratitude,&#8221; wrote Annie Cooper Burton, then the president of the Los Angeles chapter of the UDC, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=IS4KAAAAIAAJ&#038;pg=PR6&#038;source=gbs_selected_pages&#038;cad=3#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1916 publication.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/top-biden-surrogate-says-dems-preferring-that-former-vp-stay-in-the-basement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: TOP DEM RECORDED SUGGESTING BIDEN CAN STAY IN BASEMENT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his speech at the Ginsburg hearing, Biden went on to note that he went into public office to further the cause of &#8220;civil rights,&#8221; and said the organization&#8217;s behavior had &#8220;nothing to do&#8221; with the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>After Biden spoke, the Judiciary Committee refused to renew a design patent for the UDC&#8217;s insignia, by a 12-3 vote. The patent had come up for reauthorization every\u00a014 years since the UDC was founded in 1894, and had unanimously been approved each time, The Washington Times reported.<\/p>\n<div source=\"\">\n<div><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" ><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Members of the Ku Klux Klan yell as they fly Confederate flags during a rally at the statehouse in Columbia, South Carolina July 18, 2015. A Ku Klux Klan chapter and an African-American group planned overlapping demonstrations on Saturday outside the South Carolina State House, where state officials removed the Confederate battle flag last week. REUTERS\/Chris Keane? TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - GF10000163673\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/640\/320\/clan-members-rt.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\"><\/img><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n<p>\n      Members of the Ku Klux Klan yell as they fly Confederate flags during a rally at the statehouse in Columbia, South Carolina July 18, 2015. A Ku Klux Klan chapter and an African-American group planned overlapping demonstrations on Saturday outside the South Carolina State House, where state officials removed the Confederate battle flag last week. REUTERS\/Chris Keane? TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY &#8211; GF10000163673<br \/>\n      <span>(REUTERS\/Chris Keane)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Reached for comment by Fox News, the Biden campaign pointed to\u00a0tweet from its rapid response director, Andrew Bates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t want to bring up the phrase &#8216;fine people&#8217; in any context,&#8221; Bates said, responding to the Trump campaign&#8217;s post including the video of Biden&#8217;s remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Bates appended a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/news\/press-releases\/adl-condemns-president-trumps-remarks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a> from the\u00a0Anti-Defamation League (ADL) condemning Trump for not standing up to &#8220;bigotry and hate&#8221; in Charlottesville.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/paul-krugman-professors-demand-top-economist-lose-his-job-for-criticizing-black-lives-matter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>INSIDE A MASSIVE EFFORT TO DEPLATFORM &#8216;BLACK LIVES MATTER&#8217; CRITICS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Trump campaign tweeted Biden&#8217;s remarks amid a newly resurfaced debate over racism following the in-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-scrub-confederate-names-military-bases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said on Friday\u00a0he\u2019s backing a push<\/a> to the remove the names of Confederate leaders from the Civil War from all U.S. military assets \u2013 marking a contrast to the president&#8217;s fierce opposition earlier this week to scrub those names from 10 military bases.<\/p>\n<div source=\"\">\n<div><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" ><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An inspection crew from the Virginia Department of General Services takes measurements as they inspect the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue Monday June 8, 2020, in Richmond, Va. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has ordered the removal of the statue. (AP Photo\/Steve Helber)\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/640\/320\/AP-Confederate-statue-4.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\"><\/img><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n<p>\n      An inspection crew from the Virginia Department of General Services takes measurements as they inspect the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue Monday June 8, 2020, in Richmond, Va. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has ordered the removal of the statue. (AP Photo\/Steve Helber)\n      <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe names affixed to our military installations must honor the diverse heritage of leadership and sacrifice in our country\u2019s history,\u201d Biden said in a statement. \u201cI fully support Senator Warren\u2019s bipartisan effort to form a commission to rename Defense Department facilities named after Confederate leaders in the next three years, and look forward to implementing the commission\u2019s work as president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump, however, tweeted last week\u00a0that his \u201cAdministration will not even consider the renaming of these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s record on the matter has changed over time. In 1975, Biden and all of his Senate colleagues voted to restore citizenship to Confederate Army leader Robert E. Lee. Ten members of the House of Representatives voted against the measure.<\/p>\n<p>The former vice president, however, also has a record of emphasizing the importance of taking on pro-Confederate institutions. In 2001, he grilled President George W. Bush&#8217;s nominee for attorney general, John Ashcroft, for giving an interview praising Robert E. Lee to the neo-confederate publication Southern Partisan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI should probably do more due diligence on it,&#8221; Ashcroft responded. &#8220;I know they\u2019ve been accused of being racist. \u2026\u00a0I would rather be falsely accused of being a racist than to falsely accuse someone of being a racist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Separately, in 2006, Biden told Fox News&#8217; Chris Wallace that he had good prospects of winning southern states in the Democratic presidential primary, even though he was a liberal from the northeast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetter than anybody else,&#8221; Biden said of his chances. &#8220;You don\u2019t know my state, my state was a slave state. My state is a border state. My state is the eighth largest black population in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<div source=\"\">\n<div><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" ><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee on Monument Ave in Richmond, Va.\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/640\/320\/richmond-statue-3-barnini-chakraborty.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\"><\/img><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n<p>\n      Statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee on Monument Ave in Richmond, Va.<br \/>\n      <span>(Barnini Chakraborty\/Fox News)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Also that year, Biden commented that Delaware&#8217;s history as a slave state helped explain how it stayed out of some partisan fights.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This state is not a homogenous state,&#8221; Biden remarked.\u00a0&#8220;We\u2019re a border state, a slave state that fought on the side of the North. 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