At the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast hosted by the National Action Network in Washington, D.C., Vice President Biden advocated for racial equity and economic progress.
Biden addressed the gathering that he is committed to assisting Black Americans in fully participating in the nation’s wealth, switching between calls for civil rights advancement and everyday concerns.
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He said during the conference hosted by the Rev. Al Sharpton, “We face another inflection point in our history.” He added, “It’s a time for choosing. Will we choose democracy over autocracy, love over hate?
“The path is clear — to go there we need to go together,” he remarked.
He also blasted Republicans for criticizing his economic program.
“They’re gonna talk about big-spending Democrats again,” the President stated. “Guess what? I reduced the deficit last year by $350 billion … But so what? These guys are fiscally demented, I think. They don’t quite get it.”
Biden said that his administration has been successful in guiding the nation, particularly Black America, out of the economic depression caused by the COVID epidemic in addition to granting Black people voting rights and appointing Black judges.
Biden touted his bicameral infrastructure plan, the Inflation Reduction Act, and environmental policies intended to lessen pollution that disproportionately harms people of color as revolutionary economic boosts for Black universities and companies.
The majority of black voters supported his 2020 presidential campaign.
“We have to stand together,” Biden said. “You had my back and I’ve had yours.”
Biden was joyfully hailed by Sharpton as a president who kept his commitments to the African-American community.
“In the last two years Joe Biden and [Vice President] Kamala Harris have literally changed the lives of all our people,” Sharpton stated.
The nation will ” get there on voting rights,” according to King’s eldest son, who made the statement in honor of the event.
Aiming to make it more difficult for Americans to cast ballots, voter suppression legislation has drawn criticism from Martin Luther King III.
“It’s going to be quite difficult for any of that to happen with this Republican-led Congress, but we have to keep exerting pressure,” King shared with CNN news. While adding, “It may not be this year, but we’re gonna get there.”
In the Senate, Democrats attempted to implement comprehensive voting reform during Biden’s first two years in office, but their efforts were unsuccessful.
The performances took place the day after Biden made history by becoming the first president in office to offer a Sunday sermon at the Atlanta church where Martin Luther King Jr. previously delivered the sermon.
