{"id":1806593,"date":"2023-01-15T17:50:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T22:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1806593"},"modified":"2023-01-15T17:51:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T22:51:20","slug":"biden-falsely-claims-he-fought-apartheid-was-in-civil-rights-movement-in-mlk-day-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-falsely-claims-he-fought-apartheid-was-in-civil-rights-movement-in-mlk-day-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Falsely Claims He Fought Apartheid, Was in Civil Rights Movement in MLK Day Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-falsely-claims-he-fought-apartheid-was-in-civil-rights-movement-in-mlk-day-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1806593&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/original_BidenMLK.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>On Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-joe-biden-calls-anti-socialist-protesters-in-illinois-idiots\">Joe Biden<\/a> In Atlanta, he gave a speech to the Ebenezer Baptist Church in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He repeated false claims about his supposed involvement with the slayings. <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/biden-admin-memo-hints-at-stripping-office-for-civil-rights-oversight-of-religious-liberty-violations\">Civil rights movement<\/a> Protesting against apartheid South Africa<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve two political heroes. My entire life. When I started off as a 22-year-old on the east side of the civil rights movement,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;I got elected to the United States Senate when I was 29 and wasn&#8217;t old enough to take office.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I had two heroes, Bobby Kennedy. I admired John Kennedy, but I could never picture him at my kitchen table. But I could Bobby and no malarkey, Dr. King, Dr. King,&#8221; Biden added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden made numerous references to his involvement in civil rights movements. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/20\/politics\/fact-check-biden-false-claims-first-year-2021\/index.html\">CNN Reports False Claims<\/a>. He stated at a press conference in 2021 that he was &#8220;arrested&#8221; At a civil right event in his youth, but no evidence exists.<\/p>\n<p><span>Biden reiterated the claim during a speech in Atlanta in January 2022. <a href=\"http:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/fact-checking-organization-furious-that-twitters-fact-checking-tool-wasnt-biased-against-tim-pool\">l<\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/fact-checking-organization-furious-that-twitters-fact-checking-tool-wasnt-biased-against-tim-pool\">eft-leaning <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2022\/jan\/13\/joe-biden\/evidence-scant-joe-biden-was-arrested-protesting-c\/\">PolitiFact<\/a><span> rated the comments as &#8220;false.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I took on apartheid in South Africa and a whole lot else,&#8221; Biden later claimed in the speech.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2020, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/joe-biden-not-arrested-apartheid-south-africa-campaign-story-2020-2\">Insider reports<\/a>, Biden repeated a story for weeks that he was arrested in South Africa while trying to meet with Nelson Mandela. He later admitted the story was not true.<\/p>\n<p>During the speech Biden also said, &#8220;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. Not a joke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/12\/members-of-black-delaware-church-dont-recall-biden-being-raised-there\/\">As the New York Post reports,<\/a>\u00a0no members of Biden&#8217;s local Delaware black church have any memory or record of the president ever attending their congregation.<\/p>\n<p>In his gaffe-filled speech Biden also said to an unknown attendee during a non sequitur, &#8220;What&#8217;s your name honey? It&#8217;s good to see you. Maybe I can have a picture with you before I leave, ok?&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden also tried to reference Justice\u00a0Ketanji Brown Jackson and said, &#8220;Hearing these words and I quote: &#8216;It took just one generation of segregation to the Supreme Court of the United States,&#8217; end of quote. Those are the words of Kaja&#8230; Kajan.. Katanji Drown Jackson. Our Supreme Court Justice, took just one generation of segregation to Supreme Court of the United States. As I told folks at the time, she&#8217;s smarter than you are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday Joe Biden In Atlanta, he gave a speech to the Ebenezer Baptist Church in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He repeated false claims about his supposed involvement with the slayings. Civil rights movement Protesting against apartheid South Africa &#8220;I&#8217;ve two political heroes. My entire life. 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