Former VP Joe Biden is not taking his strong support in South Carolina for granted, he was back there on Sunday attending church service.
Standing before the 1300 congregants gathered at Bethlehem Baptist Church to hear him speak, Biden talked about his late son Bo's work to combat sex trafficking and then read from the book of Hebrews, before telling the audience that we need faith now more than ever.
The former VP then went on to say that it sometimes feel like the 1920's, before going into his personal testimony of being involved in the civil rights movement.
"Folks some mornings I wake up and I think it's more like what it must've been like in 1920 than 2020."
He then shared his story of being a teenager in Delaware, going to Mass and then a black church, where he was part of the civil rights movement.
"I would go to 8 o'clock mass then I would go to Rev. Herron's church where we'd meet in order to organize to figure where we were going to go. If we were going to desegregate the Rialto Movie Theatre or what we were going to do."
He continued,
"I got my education for real, in the Black church!"
Biden seemed right at home, leaving his seat to shake hands with church members, joining them in worship and praise. "It's contagious when you're in a black church," he told the congregation when he first got up to speak, to laughter.
Biden was seated in the front pew with his sister, Valerie Biden Owens, and Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., who introduced Biden and spoke about her recent endorsement of him.
He also picked up the endorsement of the Rev. Anthony A. McCallum, the congregation's pastor, who compared him to former President Barack Obama. "Let's get behind this soldier," McCallum told his congregation. "Someone who could touch all people, not just a 1%, but to the common folk."
