Old age ... poor memory ... PTSS for era of segregation ... reverses perpetrator with victim ... mumbles as the lies need to be covered by an air of legitimacy.

Decryption ...

• served as VP under a black president
• picked a black woman as his VP
• succeeded to appoint the first black woman to the Supreme Court

First Negro federal judge Irvin C. Mollison, of Chicago, Ill., first Negro appointed to a federal judgeship within the continental U.S., was sworn into office this morning Nov. 3, 1945 at the 3rd Court of Customs building. His appointment by President Truman was confirmed by the Senate without a dissenting vote.

Certainly some truth ...

Most of Biden's appointed judges to date are women, racial or ethnic minorities - a first for any president

Not a selling point in today's divided America to win the next election.

'Sapere aude'

Remembering the Black Woman Biden Blocked from the Supreme Court | AEI - 1 Feb 2022 |

The following month, when Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement, Janice Rogers Brown was on Bush's shortlist to replace her. She would have been the first Black woman ever nominated to serve as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. But Biden appeared on CBS's "Face the Nation" to warn that if Bush nominated Brown, she would face a filibuster. "I can assure you that would be a very, very, very difficult fight and she probably would be filibustered," Biden said. Asked by moderator John Roberts "Wasn't she just confirmed?," Biden replied that the Supreme Court is a "totally different ballgame" because "a circuit court judge is bound by stare decisis. They don't get to make new law."

Joe Biden didn't just compromise with segregationists. He fought for their cause in schools, experts say. | NBC News - 25 June 2019 |

Joe Biden helped give America the language that is still used to oppose school integration today, legislative and education history experts say.

In a 1975 Senate hearing, the legendary civil rights lawyer Jack Greenberg had something to say to freshman Sen. Joe Biden.

Greenberg, longtime director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, took Biden to task for sponsoring a bill that would limit the power of courts to order school desegregation with busing. It was a move that followed the wishes of many of Biden's white constituents in Delaware.

The bill "heaves a brick through the window of school integration," said Greenberg, one of the lawyers who had won the Brown v. Board of Education case that ended legal school segregation 21 years earlier. And according to Greenberg, Biden was the man with his hand on the brick.

How a Young Joe Biden Turned Liberals Against Integration | Politico - 2015 |

Forty years ago, the Senate supported school busing--until a 32-year-old changed his mind.

... as a court-ordered integration plan loomed over Wilmington, Delaware, in 1974, Biden's constituents transformed their resistance to busing into an organized--and angry--opposition. So Biden transformed, too. That year, Joe Biden morphed into a leading anti-busing crusader--all the while continuing to insist that he supported the goal of school desegregation, he only opposed busing as the means to achieve that end.

This stance, which many of Biden's liberal and moderate colleagues also held, was clever but disingenuous. It enabled Biden to choose votes over principles, while acting as if he was not doing so.

• Another Long Civil Rights Movement: How Catholic Interracialists Used the Resources of their Faith to Tear Down Racial Hierarchies
• Progressives and conservatives are in a rare unity welcoming Pope Francis to the US, but anti-Catholicism was rampant before John F Kennedy was president | The Guardian - 12 Sept 2015 |

My maternal grandmother lived in The Hague (Fr. La Haye), was devout Catholic in a dominating, discriminating Calvinist society, took teacher nuns to task for showing preference for children of well to do parents in contrast to those considered poor and lower class. Around the year 1910.  A strong character ... she would have taken a Joe Biden to task for lacking backbone ... fifty years to preserve his seat in Congress and longer.

'Sapere aude'