During his speech at a recent White House event in honor of Black History Month, President Biden described how he used to attend Catholic Mass early Sunday morning before participating in the service at the local Black church when he was younger. In his remarks, he explained that this is what had helped him become so familiar with Black Christian clips.
In the clip which was posted on social media by the RNC Research account, Biden states that when he was in high school in Delaware as someone who was involved in the Civil Rights Movement, he used to attend a Black service by 10 o’clock in the morning as he attended Catholic Mass earlier.
However, Twitter users have questioned whether Biden is actually lying about previously visiting Black Churches and have also questioned whether he was actually an activist in the desegregation movement during his youth.
Fox News Digital also questioned the accuracy of these claims. In 2020 during the presidential campaign, Biden claimed that helped with the organization of “anti-segregation protests at Union Baptist Church in Delaware.” However, according to Fox, longtime congregants of the church had told the Washington Free Beacon that he could not “recall Biden attending the church.”
Furthermore Fox news Digital also pointed out that in the 1980s Biden had said that he had not been a civil rights activist, but that he had been “very concerned about the civil rights movement.” He had added that “I was not out marching, I was not down in Selma. I was not anywhere else.”
