Biden Courts Black Voters, Calls Republicans ‘Fiscally Demented’ During Remarks at Martin Luther King Jr. Day Breakfast
In his keynote address on Jan. 16 at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast organized by civil rights activist Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, President Joe Biden courted black voters, discussed the stalled voting rights legislation, and referred to some House Republicans as “fiscally demented.”
Biden’s breakfast talk took place a day after he became the first sitting president to deliver a Sunday morning sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where King ministered.
Born on Jan. 15, 1929, King was a minister and civil rights activist whose efforts helped pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He was shot and killed in Memphis on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39….