President Joe Biden has kicked off a series of actions and public appearances aimed at selling his record to Black voters, a key bloc that typically votes Democratic but could tip the election by staying home in November in big numbers.
“We have a whole group of people out there trying to rewrite history, trying to erase history,” Biden said during a speech Friday at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which is a few blocks from the White House. “We hold these truths self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights and should be treated equally. … We never fully lived up to that idea, to state the obvious.”
He warned of what he called a “resistance” to that ideal “led by my predecessor and his MAGA Republican allies, backed by an extreme Supreme Court [that] gutted affirmative action in college admissions.”
