Joe Biden called Jesse Jackson 'boy' in 1984
| June 20, 2019 02:57 PM
Joe Biden referred to racial activist Jesse Jackson as "boy" when complimenting the African-American politician and then Democratic presidential candidate at a 1984 news conference.
"He is one of the brightest guys around," Biden said in Lexington, Virginia, after a reporter asked him about how Jackson's presidential campaign could shape the Democratic Party in the future. "That boy ain't no dummy, just like Gary Hart, that boy ain't no dummy either."
Jackson, 77, who ran for president in both 1984 and 1988, is a year older than Biden, 76, who was born in 1942. At the time, Biden denied that his comments were "racially derogatory" and noted how he also referred to Hart, then a Democratic senator for Colorado, who is white, the same way.
The episode was reported in the Washington Post at the time.
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