President Joe Biden marked the anniversary of a landmark Supreme Court case on segregation, but quickly drew fire for his past statements on the issue.
Speaking on the 70th anniversary of the 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of EducationBiden pointed to the importance of the fight against school desegregation, but recalled earlier comments that some saw as racist.
“The work of building a democracy … worthy of our dreams begins with opening the doors of opportunity to everyone, without exception,” he said Friday at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington.
Vice President Kamala Harris had called out Biden for his stance during a 2019 Democratic presidential primary debate.
“You also worked with them to oppose the buses,” he said at the time. “You know there was a girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate public schools, and she was taken to school by bus every day. And that girl was me.”
“Biden has also been criticized in the past for comments about segregationists and KKK members,” Fox News reported. “He previously praised the late West Virginia Democratic senator Robert Byrd, a former KKK member who later regretted that affiliation and described it as a mistake, and Strom Thurmond, the former South Carolina senator and presidential candidate.” Dixiecrat” who supported segregation.”
The president was called out for his favorable speech this week and his previous stance on segregation issues as a U.S. senator.
“Too bad Joe Biden continued to fight for segregation (sic) decades after this wonderful decision,” wrote one X user.
interesting Isn't that the same guy who said he didn't want his kids going to school in a “racial jungle?”
— DoneWithYou (@MCAMaureen) May 17, 2024
— Eric T% (@EricT41208999) May 17, 2024
Is he going to lie about everything he's done for civil rights? And how was he “raised” in the black community?
— Justen Pardo (@TheManTheGuyTh1) May 17, 2024
Biden also posted a photo of himself with members of The Little Rock Nine, shooting political rivals with the group that was blocked from entering a Little Rock school in 1957 by then-Democratic governor Orval Faubus.
LOLOLOL. Much historical illiteracy? https://t.co/UAKb9YAhUy
— Methyl Head ️ (@tractordoctor79) May 18, 2024
I'll just leave this here since Joe is flexing https://t.co/07cjSEz302 pic.twitter.com/gnK62tdAXk
— (•_•) (@AsTheWorldBurnz) May 17, 2024
You said you were going to unite and heal the country.
But you and your friends have been endlessly infamous.
— DerekMondelli (@DerekMondelli) May 17, 2024
“Today we face an insidious few who want a country for some of us, not all of us”
BIDEN, THAT'S YOU! THAT'S LITERALLY YOU!— Cole Henrich (@cole_henrich) May 17, 2024
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