President Joe Biden, center, holds hands with Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., a senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, second from left, and Keisha Lance Bottoms, senior adviser to Biden for public engagement and former Atlanta Mayor, second from right, after Biden spoke at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023, during a service honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
ATLANTA — President Joe Biden made a historical pilgrimage Sunday to “America’s freedom church” to mark 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 ... between hope and fear, kindness and cruelty, justice and injustice,” Biden told congregants, elected officials and dignitaries.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.
Thank you for posting. Those in the peanut gallery that ignored the message to take cheap shots need to find a better way to leave a mark. Hence, study MLK's example of building communities. You could have picked your nose instead of responding, and gotten the same yield.
Did he stop to pay respects to his mentor the late Senator Byrd the leader of the VA chapter of the KKK
If only the alt-left wouldn't have thrown out all the MLK.Jr's teachings of non-violence and keeping the emotions above those you wish to persuade.
Baptist: slang for cults with a tithing calculator.
And told lie after lie
Lol another Biden fluff job by AP.
It’s great that our President shows a strength in defying the pathetic white nationalists on the Sunday before MLK day. It is a welcome change to the former guy’s pathetically unambiguous bigotry and hatred towards others not like him and toward our country. Restoring dignity.
Its not about the skin its about the sin. Gods laws don't change for your generation. Abortion is still murder. Jesus is the only way
MLK plagiarized his doctorate thesis and cheated on his wife. Why are we lionizing a man who had no moral character. In the present liberal climate, he should be cancelled.I am deeply offended by this honor to him.
Joe Biden and his family are the epitome of white privilege
His speech has touched me
Biden is a hypocrite and a pathological liar. he should never have been invited to speak there today. too little, too late addle brained old man.
Pandering
Biden looks like the White Ghost of Christmas Never!
Most definitely: to not be judged by the color of one's skin. But alas. That is not what this divisive president and his administration are doing.
Democrats always believe democracy is in trouble when republicans are elected.
Americans should pay attention to Hunter’s rent payments.
Thought better if AP News. Not knowing what a pilgrimage reflects. Then, what’s historic. Millions attend church every week. Maybe biden should attend more often. Maybe a humbling will reel him back in to reality.
And him and the rest of the left should as well ...
MLK plagiarized his doctorate thesis and cheated on his wife. Why are we making lionizing a man who had no moral character. In the present liberal climate, he should be cancelled.
It is very easy to signal virtue - but it is hollow for me. “The big guy” was getting his 10% from deals in China he set with his son, Hunter, while he was VP. He betrayed the trust of the people, he’s a scumbag.
'Pilgrimage'? The AP is just a mouthpiece, isn't it.
Give me a break!
Biden was strongly opposed to desegregation busing and a big ally of segregationists in Congress.
'Historic pilgrimage' 🤦🏻♂️
Biden & his hypocritical photo-ops.
With the hundreds of billions siphoned off under Macky Sall's sight and sweat, Farba Ngom could very well become a financial prospect for Ahmadu Kufa's Katiba Macina if he pledges his protection.
This man needs immediate psychiatric evaluation. Something about him seems very off.
And once again lied by claiming 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.” Media never points out Biden’s repeated lies!
A politician shouldn’t be delivering a sermon in any church unless it’s about God.
Hahaha- get on your knees sir to show more virtue.
He only mouthed the words written for him
LetsGoBrandon
MLK Jr would be ashamed of Biden. He's the most bigoted POTUS in modern history. Last time bigotry was such an obsession by a sitting POTUS was when progressive Democrat Woodrow Wilson was championing the KKK.
In contrast... the Trump can't figure it out...
The irony is so thick, you need a chainsaw to cut it.
Yeah, sure seems as though the very honest, integral and sincere Biden really cares about blacks. Profoundly so. Ha! pull the other one, why don't you.
Did all the churchgoers vote for him? Otherwise they aren’t really black according to grandpa hair sniffer.
Such brave
Do you not know what a pilgrimage is?
MLK carried a gun?
Yes we need to pay attention that Biden supports critical race theory and MLK would reject it for the racist ideology that it is .
Historical 😂🤡
End white supremacy.
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