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Biden tells Polish leader he wanted to add ‘s-k-i’ to end of his name | New York Post
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0:42Now PlayingPresident Biden joked with his Polish counterpart on Tuesday that he wanted to add “ski” or “o” to the end of his last name because he purportedly lived in an area of Delaware with a large population of Poles and Italians and wanted to fit in.
Biden, 80, who was in Warsaw to mark the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, talked after his bilateral meeting with Poland President Andrzej Duda about his family’s big move.
“As a young man, I was born in a coal town of Scranton, Pa., in northeastern Pennsylvania, in an Irish Catholic neighborhood. Then when coal died, we moved down to Delaware, to a town called Claymont, Del., which was a working-class town,” Biden recalled. “But everyone in town was either Polish or Italian. I grew up feeling self-conscious my name didn’t end in an ‘s-k-i’ or an ‘o.'”
The comment was similar to other remarks Biden has made about his supposed connection to other racial, national or minority groups.
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