In bid to 'heal,' unify, Biden meets with Blake family, as bigoted posts of Blake Sr. surface

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Thursday visited with members of the family of Jacob Blake Jr., a 29-year-old black man whose shooting last month by a white police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin has received national attention.

"Vice President Biden will hold a community meeting in Kenosha to bring together Americans to heal and address the challenges we face," the Biden campaign said on Wednesday ahead of the candidate's Wisconsin visit.

But prior to making his way to Kenosha for that event, Biden met with members of Blake's family, including Blake's father Jacob Blake Sr., whose history of social media posts rife with bigotry, ethnic and racial slurs, and conspiracy-minded hate has recently come under scrutiny.

A Sept. 2 story from the conservative website Breitbart News highlighted a Facebook account that appears to belong to Blake Sr. — images of Facebook posts published by Breitbart show him having posted comments such as:

• "A jew can't tell me shit period"
• "The same pink toe Jewish people that control the interest rate control the media they control Minds and money"
• "The Jewish media picks and chooses who is a terrorists and is not"
• "A cracker jew can do whatever to a white woman for years but let a jig try it"

The term "jig" is described on dictionary.com as "Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive." The term is defined as "a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person."

He called those at a Young Black Leaders Summit at the White House "Young black coons." That word carries an identical definition as the term defined above.

Blake Sr. has expressed support for Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

Heavy has also reported about Blake Sr.'s social media postings, including one that reads, "Fresh out of Facebook penitentiary I say f*** the white man" and another that declares, "Dear crackers I am at my limit of cracker friends sorry."

"What we want to do is we've got to heal," Biden told reporters in Wilmington, Del. on Wednesday before leaving for Wisconsin. "We've got to put things together, bring people together."