 He would spend some time at the pool in the summer letting young black children play with his hair on his legs. They just love that stuff, man. They just absolutely love that stuff. So Joe Biden was raised in the Puerto Rican community while going to a black church and a synagogue. And, of course, he was raised as a Catholic. And he also was very proud to feel out of place because he didn't have an O as the last syllable of his name or an I as the last syllable of his name. In other words, he wasn't either Irish or Polish.