President Joe Biden is marking Martin Luther King Jr.\u0027s birthday with a sermon Sunday at Atlanta\u0027s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church
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He spoke out against those who “traffic in racism, extremism, insurrection” and said the struggle to protect democracy was playing out in courthouses and ballot boxes, protests and other avenues. ”At our best, the American promise wins out. But I don’t need to tell you that we’re not always at our best. We’re fallible. We fail and fall.”.
Warnock, like many battleground state Democrats who won reelection in 2022, kept his distance during the campaign from Biden as the the president’s approval rating lagged and the inflation rate climbed. The White House has tried to promote Biden’s agenda in minority communities. The White House has cited efforts to encourage states to take equity into account for public works projects as they spend money from the administration’s $1 trillion infrastructure bill. The administration also has acted to end sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses, scrapping a policy widely seen as racist.
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