Biden chides GOP for 'trying to hide the truth' about Black history in marking Bloody Sunday

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Biden on Sunday called out Republicans for efforts to limit teaching parts of Black history as he marked the 58th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.

“History matters,” Biden said at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. “The truth matters, notwithstanding what the other team is trying to hide. They’re trying to hide the truth.”

Biden highlighted the importance of teaching African American studies, which comes amid a growing debate over Republicans pushing to prevent the teaching of certain subject matters such as African American studies in schools.

“No matter how hard some people try, we can’t just choose to learn what we want to know but not what we should know. We should learn everything, the good, the bad, the truth of who we are as a nation. And everyone should know the truth of Selma,” Biden said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-chides-gop-trying-hide-215426951.html

[elleng]

1. They're trying to hide the truth."

[Cha]

2. Damn Maga Putin Puppet caucus

Mahalo PJB!💙😋🕊🕯

[sheshe2]

3. He is right.

“No matter how hard some people try, we can’t just choose to learn what we want to know but not what we should know. We should learn everything, the good, the bad, the truth of who we are as a nation.

[IbogaProject]

4. A multiple

They kick in some amount more per each one cut from benefits. After all it's patriotic to reduce the deficit.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

5. The American media does mass amnesia very well, and excellent at white washing black history.

Isnt all the fascism in America and abroad a direct consequence of mass amnesia?

Memories need to be jogged, would do wonders. How about it mass media, a little history lesson on fascism, with concentration on the ultimate fascism, history of human slavery and colonialism?

Lots of stuff on the Civil War…not so much on the slave wars ever since to this day.

[republianmushroom]

6. thank you, Joe

[LeftinOH]

7. Republicans can -and do- tell the "truth" about black history..

..which is that the Democratic Party policy was responsible for segregation - and that Democrats fought bitterly against civil rights advances for many decades. Of course, they regard the historical distinction between Dixiecrats and the larger Democratic party as irrelevant. They also disregard the prevailing ideologies of the past, preferring to concentrate solely on the names of political parties..as if ideology and party affiliation are inseparable.

It is an extremely *exhausting* discussion -- because the topic of historical American political parties and their associated ideologies over time requires both significant historical knowledge as well as intellectual effort. The modern GOP and its followers are simply not p to it.

[Caliman73]

8. Their "truth" is just dressed up lies...

The reality is that Conservatives, have been at the forefront of every backlash to progress in the United States. During the Civil War period, the newly formed Republican Party was the more liberal party while the Democratic Party was agrarian and Conservative, though that term had not been fully integrated into American political ideology.

The reason why the Dixiecrats switched allegiance from the Democratic to Republican parties is simply because of the Kennedy's and LBJ's embrace (though reluctant) of Civil Rights.

You can still lie when you state "facts", which Conservatives excel at. Reality does not typically fit the Conservative narrative so they have gotten really good at embellishing.