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From an Early Draft of Joe Biden’s Speech at Morehouse College

KCK
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This commencement ceremony brings back so many memories for me.

I remember when I was marching next to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. He started limping, and soon he had to lean on my shoulder for support. Finally he said, “Joe, my old friend, I can’t go any farther. I have a really painful bunion.”

But I couldn’t let Martin quit. I said, “Hey man. You don’t have a bunion. You have a dream.” I think he later used the phrase in a speech.

I remember another time, when I was marching next to Malcolm X. Malcolm pointed out a white man driving slowly toward us in a new Plymouth. Malcolm said, “Joe, my old friend, I don’t like the look on that guy’s face.”

Sure enough, the driver intentionally bumped into us so hard that Malcolm and I flipped up and landed on the hood. The driver threatened to call the cops on us for denting his car.

But I said, “Hey man! We didn’t land on your Plymouth! Your Plymouth landed on us!”

I wish we had more time. I’d tell you about when I was a bus driver down in Montgomery, and my old friend Rosa Parks got on board.

True story.

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