Can you remind me when your boss "marched in the civil rights movement"?

Was it before or after he was "arrested" trying to see Nelson Mandela? https://twitter.com/AndrewBatesNC/status/1271447381880569857
Maybe it was around the time he said de-segregation would cause his kids to grow up in a "racial jungle"? https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-said-desegregation-would-create-a-racial-jungle-2019-7
Joe Biden worried in 1977 that certain de-segregation policies would cause his children to grow up...

"Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle," Biden said.

https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-said-desegregation-would-create-a-racial-jungle-2019-7
Could it have happened just before he accepted an award from George Wallace in 1974?
Could it have happened just before he accepted an award from George Wallace in 1974?
Could it have happened just before he accepted an award from George Wallace in 1974?
Maybe it was the following year when he said the Democratic Party needed a "liberal George Wallace - someone who's not afraid to stand up and offend people"?

(BTW, is that your boss saying "law and order is a traditional liberal issue"? I thought that was a racist dog whistle?)
Could it have been in 1981, when he said that George Wallace was "right about some things"?

(Bonus points for lying about marching for civil rights in the same breathe as touting George Wallace and calling busing "stupid" though, it's impressive)
Maybe it was right after he eulogized staunch segregationist Strom Thurmond in 2003?

Could have been around one of the other eulogies he gave for segregationists though, I know he's done it a lot.
Maybe he went out and marched to burn off a few calories one day after a meeting of his segregationist meal club?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/19/joe-biden-james-eastland-herman-talmadge-segregationists-civility/
Could it have been right after he compared himself to a "token black" in 1974?
Was probably just before he criticized people on the "far left" for legally defending "colored guys" instead of "rednecks" in 1970, right?
Was probably just before he criticized people on the "far left" for legally defending "colored guys" instead of "rednecks" in 1970, right?
Was probably just before he criticized people on the "far left" for legally defending "colored guys" instead of "rednecks" in 1970, right?
Could it have been just after this passionate 1993 Senate floor speech, where he called black youths "predators" "without any conscience" and said "we have no choice but to take them out of society"?
Maybe it was around 2007, when he said schools in Iowa did better than schools in Washington, D.C. because there were fewer minorities who came from "dysfunctional homes," right?

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2007/10/biden-says-hes-best-prepared-s.html
Maybe he squeezed in a couple marches in 2006, when he repeatedly bragged about being from a "slave state"?

https://www.starnewsonline.com/article/NC/20061129/News/605127008/WM/
Could he have gone out and marched between when he voted to restore the citizenship of Robert E. Lee in 1975 and Jefferson Davis in 1977?

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/joe-biden-voted-to-give-robert-e-lee-his-us-citizenship https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/biden-voted-to-restore-citizenship-to-confederate-president-jefferson-davis
Biden voted to restore citizenship to Confederate president Jefferson Davis

Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden once voted to restore the U.S. citizenship of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/joe-biden-voted-to-give-robert-e-lee-his-us-citizenship
Did he ever march in the early 1970s, when he lived in a house with a racially restricted deed that barred ownership by black Americans?
Did he ever march in the early 1970s, when he lived in a house with a racially restricted deed that barred ownership by black Americans?
Did he ever march in the early 1970s, when he lived in a house with a racially restricted deed that barred ownership by black Americans?
Maybe he marched right before this Judiciary Committee hearing in 1977, when he opposed two black nominees to be the Solicitor General and head the Justice Department's civil rights office, simply because he opposed busing? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-busing-nominees_n_5ca3c03de4b03174b92904f7
Biden Opposed Historic Black Carter Administration Nominees In Anti-Busing Crusade

As Joe Biden considers a run for president, his long history in the Senate continues to come under scrutiny.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-busing-nominees_n_5ca3c03de4b03174b92904f7
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