Image via WikipediaVice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden welcomed over 120 elected African-American officials and their guests to their official residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory this Tuesday in honor of Black History Month.
Biden, who had just returned from a trip to Ft. Campbell Kentucky, was in a very reflective mood, as his wife Dr. Jill Biden welcomed several distinguished members of the Congressional Black Caucus, mayors, state legislators, county officials and former elected leaders such as Wellington Webb who served three terms as Mayor of Denver Colorado.
The vice president talked about the importance of Black History Month as he recounted his recent meeting with young pre-teen African-American football players at Ft. Campbell (who are the offspring of deployed U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq), to his becoming an attorney in 1968 just after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. (and the subsequent riots), and finally to his train ride with then President-elect Obama in January 2009 as the newly elected vice president-elect to the nation's first ever black Commander-in-Chief. CONTINUE....
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