President Biden marks the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as the first sitting president to deliver a Sunday sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church.
President Biden made a historical pilgrimage Sunday to “America’s freedom church” to mark the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, saying democracy was at a perilous moment and that the civil rights leader’s life and legacy “show us the way and we should pay attention.”
As the first sitting president to deliver a Sunday morning sermon at King’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, Biden cited the telling question that King himself once asked of the nation. “He said, ‘Where do we go from here?’” Biden said from the pulpit. ”Well, my message to this nation on this day is we go forward, we go together, when we choose democracy over autocracy, a beloved community over chaos, when we choose believers and the dreams, to be doers, to be unafraid, always keeping the faith.”In a divided country only two years removed from a violent insurrection, “the battle for the soul of this nation is perennial. It’s a constant struggle ...
He spoke out against those who “traffic in racism, extremism, insurrection” and said the struggle to protect democracy was playing out in courthouses and ballot boxes, protests and other avenues. ”At our best, the American promise wins out. … But I don’t need to tell you that we’re not always at our best. We’re fallible. We fail and fall.’’I was 9 years old when my mom took me to hear Dr. King speak. It changed the way I saw myself and the world.
The stop at Ebenezer comes at a delicate moment for Biden after Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland on Thursday announced the
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