In his return to the spotlight, former President Joe Biden made unusual claims about both Social Security and race when speaking Tuesday in Chicago.
Biden’s speech to the Advocates, Counselors, and Representatives for the Disabled Conference was his first major address since leaving office in January.
Here are three unusual points the 46th president made that warrant a closer look.
1. ‘Never Seen Hardly Any Black People’
The one-term president had professed during his successful 2020 campaign that he was raised in the black church—though he didn’t specify an age—and said he worked with black people in the “projects,” because “these were the guys I grew up with.”
In his Chicago address Tuesday, the 82-year-old Biden said that until the fourth grade, he didn’t see anyone who was “colored,” a term rarely used in modern times.
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