Joe Biden rewrites history again. Literally...
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-biden-strom-thurmond-civil-rights-act-808498993375CLAIM: President Joe Biden "literally" convinced segregationist U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond to vote in favor of the
Civil Rights Act.
AP'S ASSESSMENT: False. Biden had not yet been elected to the U.S. Senate when the landmark law was passed in 1964, and Thurmond was among the prominent southern Democrats to vote against the bill. A White House spokesperson confirmed the president misspoke in his remarks. He said Biden intended to refer to his efforts in the 1980s to get Thurmond and other Senate Republicans to vote for legislation renewing the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
THE FACTS: Biden made the claim during a White House event on Monday celebrating the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, a legal organization formed in response to the tumultuous push to end racial segregation and discrimination in the 1960s.
The president used the moment to reflect on the state of race relations in the U.S.
In a clip that was widely shared on social media, Biden noted that a racist white gunman killed
three Black people in Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday, the same day the nation marked the
60th anniversary of the historic March on Washington where Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream Speech" at the Lincoln Memorial.
"I thought things had changed. I was able
literally, not figuratively to talk Strom Thurmond into voting for the Civil Rights Act before he died. And I thought, 'Well, maybe there's real progress'," Biden said, according to the
official White House transcript. "But hate never dies. It just hides. It hides under the rocks. And when someone breathes a little oxygen in it, it comes out roaring out."
Many social media users quickly noted that Biden's timeline didn't add up.
"Strom Thurmond served until 2003 in Congress," wrote one user on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. "Civil rights act was passed in 1964. Obviously a made up story by Biden once again. Pretty soon he'll say he rode with Paul Revere."
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