Biden: “Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point!” the Delaware senator thundered on a 1977 senate floor. In 1975 Biden sponsored legislation that limited courts’ authority to integrate schools, and also an amendment that prohibited the federal government’s withholding tax monies from segregated institutions. During that era, chroniclers note, he maintained friendships with ardent office-ensconced segregationists James Eastland, Herman Talmadge, John Stennis, Strom Thurmond, and erstwhile KKK leader and long-serving Democrat Robert Byrd. During his later eulogizing of Byrd, Biden lauded him as a "mentor." https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/recalling_segregationist_biden.html