Last Updated on: 2nd July 2023, 08:35 pm
Biden Negro League – Twitter Breaks Out Over Joe Biden’s Use Of ‘Black’ In Veterans Day Speech
President Joe Biden called the late baseball player Satchel Paige a “big black” before making amends during his Veterans Day address Thursday at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Biden respected former US envoy to Hungary Donald Blinken, a veteran of the military and father of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, during his speech when he recounted an anecdote about Paige playing in the so-called “black leagues” before moving on. to the major’s Baseball in the second half of the 1940s.
Biden Black Speech
“I took the attitude of the big black at the time, a pitcher in the Negro leagues who, after Jackie Robinson, became a great pitcher in the pros, in the major leagues. Her name was Satchel Paige”.
Biden checked.
“And Satchel Paige won a victory over Chicago on his 47th birthday,”
Biden continued.
“And all the press came in and said, ‘Satch is amazing. Forty-seven years old. No one has achieved victory at the age of 47. How does it feel to be 47? He said, “Guys, that’s not how I see it.” And they said, “How do you see that, Satch? And he said, ‘I see it that way, how old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?'”
Biden, 78, joked that he was only 50 and Blinken, 95, over 47.
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Biden The Big Black
The second anomaly occurred during a speech he gave Thursday at Arlington Cemetery, Virginia.
In the 1920s, the black association consisted of groups of African Americans and, less importantly, Latin Americans.
A famous baseball player for over fifty years, Paige has played in both the Negro League and the Major League.
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