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President Joe Biden slipped up on Thursday and revealed what can only be described as his racist side when he referred to baseball legend Satchel Paige as a “great negro” while giving a speech at Arlington National Cemetery to commemorate Veterans Day.
Biden was attempting to wish Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s dad and veteran Donald Blinken a happy birthday when his speech derailed as he began fumbling his words.
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“I know you’re a little younger than I am,” Biden said, referring to Donald Blinken, according to The Daily Caller. “I’ve adopted the attitude of the great negro at the time, pitcher in the Negro Leagues who went on to become a great pitcher in the pro’s in Major League Baseball after Jackie Robinson. His name was Satchel Paige.”
“And Satchel Paige, on his 47th birthday, pitched to win against Chicago, and all the press went in and said, ‘Satch, it’s amazing, 47 years old,” he continued. “No one’s ever ever pitched a win at age 47. How do you feel about being 47?’”
“He said, ‘boys, that’s not how I look at it.’ They said, ‘how do you look at it, Satch?’ [and he said] ‘I look at it this way, how old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?’ I’m 50 years old, and the ambassador is 47,” Biden added in the bizarre speech. “But all kidding aside, Mr. Ambassador, thank you for your service during World War Two as well as your service as an ambassador.”
The Negro National League for baseball was formed in 1920 after Jim Crow laws prevented black players from playing on white teams. The legendary Jackie Robinson was the first player from the Negro National League to be recruited in the Major League roster, which signaled the end of the Negro Leagues, according to Negro Leagues History.
Paige launched his professional baseball career in the Negro Leagues in the early 1920s and was later signed to the Cleveland Indians in 1948. He would go on to be elected to the Hall of Fame in 1971 as the first player chosen by the Committee on Negro Baseball Leagues, according to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Paige passed away in 1982 at the age of 75.
Had Donald Trump referred to Paige as a “great negro,” the media would have lost their minds and ensured that it was the top news story for weeks. Since their precious Biden is the one who said it, however, don’t expect him to be held accountable for his racist words by the “woke” left.
The hypocrisy of the left never ceases to amaze.
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