{"id":1807390,"date":"2023-01-16T12:51:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T17:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1807390"},"modified":"2023-01-16T12:56:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T17:56:16","slug":"biden-claims-to-have-attended-black-church-in-high-school-and-college-no-parishioners-remember-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-claims-to-have-attended-black-church-in-high-school-and-college-no-parishioners-remember-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Claims to Have Attended Black Church in High School and College &#8211; No Parishioners Remember Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-claims-to-have-attended-black-church-in-high-school-and-college-no-parishioners-remember-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1807390&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Biden-Claims-He-Frequented-Black-Church-during-CRM-BUT-NOBODY-REMEMBERS-HIM.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Joe Biden made questionable claims that he went to a black church every day during the civil rights movement. This was in addition to his Sunday service honoring Martin Luther King Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden has frequently claimed he attended services at a black church as a teenager, but church members in Wilmington don\u2019t ever remember him attending.<\/p>\n<p>Biden celebrated Dr. King&#8217;s 94th birthday on Sunday with a tribute during the a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11637647\/Biden-rips-racism-extremism-insurrection-politically-charged-speech-church-MLK-led.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">speech<\/a> Atlanta, Georgia: Ebenezer Baptist Church<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s lay one thing to rest,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI may be a practicing Catholic, but [I] used to go to 7:30 Mass every morning in high school and then in college before I went to the black church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Not a joke, Andy knows this,\u2019 the president insisted, referencing former U.N. ambassador and former Southern Christian Leadership Conference executive director Andrew Young, who was in attendance,\u201d Biden added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAndy, it\u2019s so great to see you, man,\u2019 Biden continued. \u2018You\u2019re one of the greatest we\u2019ve ever had. Andy and I took on apartheid in South Africa and a whole lot else. They didn\u2019t want to see him coming. But we used to \u2013 that\u2019s when we would organize to march and to desegregate the city,\u201d Biden continued.<\/p>\n<p>Biden obviously couldn&#8217;t resist using the term \u201cinsurrection\u201d Condemning \u201cracism and extremism\u201d During his remarks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/damage-control-rob-reiner-calls-biden-a-decent-law-abiding-person-amid-classified-doc-scandal\/\">DAMAGE CONTROL: Rob Reiner Calls Biden a \u2018Decent Law Abiding Person\u2019 amid Classified Doc Scandal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would go sit in Reverend Herring\u2019s church, sit there before we\u2019d go out, and try to change things when I was a kid in college and in high school,\u201d Biden spoke of Wilmington&#8217;s prominent African-American Union Baptist Church.<\/p>\n<p>But long-time church members raised questions over Biden\u2019s account.<\/p>\n<p>According to some members, Biden was friends with Rev. Herring was an adult but did not attend their church when he was a teenager.<\/p>\n<p>Herring\u2019s long-time assistant Phyllis Drummond said he does not believe Biden attended in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, not at our building,\u201d Drummond said that Drummond had told the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/members-dont-recall-bidens-attendance-at-black-church-as-teen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Washington Free Beacon<\/a> In a 2020 interview. \u201cI think he was probably in Claymont, [Del.,] [or] in Pennsylvania then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden made a separate speech during the campaign trail, repeating the claim that he was raised within a black congregation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was a teenager in Delaware, for real, I got involved in the civil rights movement,\u2019 Biden said at Bethlehem Baptist Church in South Carolina in January 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d go to 8:00 Mass, then I\u2019d go to Reverend Herring\u2019s church where we\u2019d meet in order to organize and figure where we were going to go, whether we were going to desegregate the Rialto movie theater or what we were going to do,\u201d He said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden made many comments contrary to the account in pure gaffe fashion.<\/p>\n<p>When reporters questioned Biden\u2019s claim in 1987 that he marched in the civil rights movement, he admitted he \u2018wasn\u2019He wasn&#8217;t an activist, and his most important experience with civil right as a young man was when he worked in a swimming pool that had mostly black customers.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s claims that he attended a black church and participated in the civil right movement were revealed simultaneously with his campaign. He was forced to admit that his repeated claims of being arrested in apartheid-era South Africa with Young were false.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was never arrested, and I don\u2019t think [Biden] was either,\u201d Young stated that at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess I wasn\u2019t arrested, I was stopped,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden made questionable claims that he went to a black church every day during the civil rights movement. This was in addition to his Sunday service honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Biden has frequently claimed he attended services at a black church as a teenager, but church members in Wilmington don\u2019t ever remember him &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1807393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[15120,3620,4212,5458,5643,4856,4023,15119,3885,3819,3618,3924],"class_list":["post-1807390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-attended","tag-biden","tag-black","tag-bongino","tag-church","tag-claims","tag-college","tag-parishioners","tag-remember","tag-report","tag-riot","tag-school"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1807390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1807393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}