On Sunday, President Joe Biden attended a worship service at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, to join in a celebration of the national holiday honoring civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. – King was co-pastor of the church from 1960 until his assassination in 1968.
While delivering remarks, Biden had trouble saying (remembering?) the name of his historic Supreme Court Justice appointee Ketanji Brown Jackson; a woman can be seen shaking her head behind Joe as he stumbles through it.
C’mon man!
Watch the clip above.
Biden also revisited one of his greatest hits.
“Let’s lay one thing to rest. I may be a practicing Catholic, but [I] used to go to 7:30 Mass every morning in high school and then in college before I went to the Black church,” Biden said. “Not a joke.”
“When I was a teenager in Delaware, for real, I got involved in the civil rights movement,” Biden said at Bethlehem Baptist Church in South Carolina in January 2020. “I’d go to 8 o’clock Mass, then I’d go to Rev. Herring’s church where we’d meet in order to organize and figure where we were going to go, whether we were going to desegregate the Rialto movie theater or what we were going to do.”
According to Fox News, “while Richard ‘Mouse’ Smith, the former president of the Delaware NAACP, defended Biden in a 2019 op-ed, claiming, “We know Joe as the ally who was there beside us to protest the Rialto Theater’s discriminatory policy to segregate moviegoers based on race,” his claim about attending Herring’s church was disputed.”
While at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Joe Biden once again claims he was a civil rights activist: “When I started off as a 22-year-old kid on the east side in the civil rights movement.”
This is a debunked lie. pic.twitter.com/CY6x07IN2N
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