The usage of the words “fine people” has been widely used to characterize President Trump as a racist by those who mistakenly think he was referring specifically to the white supremacists at the Charlottesville protest in 2017 when he stated there were “very fine people on both sides” of the protest. The Charlottesville protest was triggered by a movement to remove Confederate monuments after a white supremacist murdered nine black worshippers at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015.
Yet a newly-unearthed clip of former Vice President Joe Biden from 1993 when he was a senator and serving as the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman shows him using the words “fine people” to refer to a group that also supported preserving Confederate statues — the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC).
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