Plantation Joe Biden gave a eulogy for the racist Dixiecrat and segregationist Strom Thurmond in 2003

‘Strom Thurmond was also a brave man, who in the end made his choice and moved to the good side,’ Biden said. ‘I disagreed deeply with Strom on the issue of civil rights and on many other issues, but I watched him change. We became good friends.’

During the eulogy speech, Biden said that Thurmond, who was the only senator to ever reach 100 years of age while in office, had overcome his racist past through specific actions such as voting in favor of an extension of the Voting Rights Act and the establishment of Martin Luther King Day. This, he said, proved him to be a different man than the one who delivered the longest ever filibuster speech from a senator in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

‘I went to the Senate emboldened, angered, and outraged at age 29 about the treatment of African Americans in this country, what everything that for a period in his life Strom had represented,’ Biden said. ‘But then I met the man.’

Kumbaya! Cockburn is a strong believer in reconciliation, but he couldn’t help scoffing at the moment when Biden spoke fondly of his time working with the deceased senator on writing a crime bill that was later vetoed by President Ronald Reagan. The Biden-Thurmond crime bill would have expanded civil asset forfeiture and put an end to federal parole, meaning many more black people  stuck in prison. That’s bipartisanship at work in America!