Former Vice President Joe Biden is getting some help from civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), who defended him against accusations of racism and insensitivity toward blacks for praising Democrat segregationists as examples in civility.
“I don’t think the remarks are offensive,” Lewis said. “During the height of the civil rights movement we worked with people and got to know people that were members of the [Ku Klux Klan], people who opposed us, even people who beat us, arrested us and jailed us,” Lewis told reporters on Friday, according to Washington Examiner. “We never gave up on our fellow human beings. And I would not give up on any human being.”
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