Opinion: Is Biden the White Moderate MLK Jr. Warned Us About?
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In Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From a Birmingham Jail,” the civil rights leader warned that one of the biggest hurdles to racial equality was actually the “white moderate”—someone who feigns outrage at injustice yet pushes back on those who seek to upend the status quo in the name of social justice.
When presented with the question of whether President Joe Biden is acting like the white moderate in King’s letter on this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, author Eddie Glaude Jr., the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, replied by saying: “At times? Yes, absolutely, to be honest with you.”