President Biden repeated the questionable claim that he helped organize protests at a Black church in support of the civil rights movement during his Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech Sunday.
at the time that they didn't recall Biden attending the church. The revelation came about the same time Biden was forced to admit his repeated claims about being arrested with Young in apartheid-era South Africa were untrue."I guess I wasn’t arrested, I was stopped," Biden admitted.
President Joe Biden walks to speak to reporters as he and first lady Jill Biden leave the White House on Dec. 27, 2022. Biden also acknowledged in the 1980s that he was not a civil rights activist and never marched during the movement. "During the '60s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement," Biden, who was running for president at the time, said during a speech in 1987."I was not an activist. I worked at an all-Black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, Delaware. I was involved in what they were thinking, in what they were feeling."Biden’s speech Sunday at Ebenezer comes as he is embroiled in controversy over the alleged mishandling of Obama-era classified documents.
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