“President Biden drew a parallel on Friday between Donald Trump ‘and his MAGA Republican allies’ and segregationists in the 1950s who tried to prevent Black and white Americans from going to school together,” Time reports.
“Biden said the same animus that drove segregationists to try to block those students from attending high school with white students is now emerging in ‘other insidious forms’ such as the efforts to gut affirmative action in college admissions and strip away corporate initiatives trying to bring more people of color into workplaces.”
Said Biden: “The Little Rock Nine were met with vitriol and violence. Today the vitriol comes in other insidious forms—an extreme movement led by my predecessor and his MAGA Republican allies, backed by an extreme Supreme Court that gutted affirmative action in college admissions. My predecessor and his extreme MAGA friends are now going after diversity, equity and inclusion all across America. They want a country for some —not for all.”
