Biden says George Floyd's death had a bigger impact than MLK"s death. Has he completely lost his little mind?

[Anonymous]

Just like all the other BLM "heroes". None of their deaths should've had any impact. Social media totally blew it up with those BLM bullshit. All of them were convicted criminals! For George Floyd, that cop was wrong. But George was no hero or even respected! He still was a criminal.
I don't know about MLK, but I don't care either.

[Gal67]

Joe Biden has a mind?

[Киттйлинк]

He is right about the impact regardless of what one man did compared to the other... There was not any social media back then as there is today, which is the reason why Floyd's death was a world wide impact, the entire world knew about it in an instant. Everyone lives in the internet now. It's not about comparing a thug to an honorable man, but simply the fact that the death did cause a bigger impact World Wide simply due to the information being spread more quickly as it happens. Duh. Common sense. Use it.

[BCA6010]

Well to be fair... MLK's death didn't result in six+ months of violent rioting nationwide, and he wasn't really celebrated until well after the fact (about 18 years later when the Reagan administration officially recognized it), while Saint Floyd of Fentanyl was practically canonized by the media within a couple days and there are now marble and bronze statues of him on the streets, and also streets and buildings named after him. This is even though he did exactly nothing that could be feasibly spun as an accomplishment, unlike MLK. That's even after taking the "dark side of MLK Jr" stories into account, he's still far more deserving in comparison.

[demonics]

I tend to agree with him actually. How many zoomers have actually heard an MLK speech? How about your average activist group? Dude would be called all kinds of uncle Tom's and coons nor NOT caring about race. Meanwhile its considered racist to not care about a persons race.

https://collectiveliberation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/catalyzing%20liberation%20toolkit.pdf

I mean my God its right there in their literature.

[NYlatefun]

You're taking his statement out of context. And just to clarify, I do not like Biden. But he clearly said Floyd's assassination had a bigger WORLDWIDE impact than that of King's, and it's true, it may be a function of how connected is the world today vs. back then. I'm pretty sure he didn't mean that Floyd's was a better person or had such a positive impact ask MLK had, but the way he was killed had a profound impact. I'm sure he didn't mean either that Floyd was an exemplary citizen, because he wasn't!

[Youryeodongsaeng]

How would you know if Floyd was a thug? You can't just assume that without a source.

Every time someone big like MLK tries to make this world a better place, they end up getting murdered.

As far as I am aware, Floyd was just a citizen. MLK was also a citizen, but he tried to change the world and he did, but at what cost? His life?

I'm guessing Biden assumed that because Floyd's death started a movement, which shouldn't even exist because we blacks too, kill each other as well.

[JasM0]

No life is a wasted one.


Lessons and moving the understanding of the human condition forward was a consequence of Floyd’s death has benefited society in a way. “An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” - Martin Luther King, Jr.


I disagree with the President. MLK should have more significant distinction than Floyd as he was pivotal in the Civil Rights Era. Entire buses of people disappeared, and Americans were waking to it. King also won the Nobel Peace Prize. Yes, Dr. King is more distinguished but not of greater value.


Reflect on the following if you pluck ether man and circumstance into each other’s time and state of technology. In the ’60s, Mr. Floyd would just be another Black man killed by a white cop. Today MLK would still die for a movement he led and leave a legacy of achievement.


Cheers!

[CasaNorba]

"Has he completely lost his little mind?"

No, since you obviously can't lose what you never had.

till then I'm not surprised that he would go as far as saying such nonsense. MLK was a civil right leader who did nothing but fight for freedom in a peaceful and civilized manner. he was also a pastor that used to pray for sick people and help them and their family keep their hopes up.

and wtf did George Floyd do? he was nothing but a lowlife who did drugs and rob people (even pregnant women.) whoever sees this scum of the earth as a hero is just as lost and demented as Joe Biden's old pedophile ass himself.

but yeah think MLK would of definitely be the first president if he remained alive longer; he would of definitely be a true president alright; unlike that fake piece of shit Obama

[BeMuse]

Democrats killed MLK. MLK was a church going man. Obviously communists would downplay his death and attempt to rewrite history superimposing a crackhead in his place. They've been trying to do that sort of shit constantly for the past several years non stop with all the statue attacks. They have even implemented segregation by race on some playgrounds and in schools. They are widening the scale of their segregation via vaccine passports and shit like that. Obviously MLK's moral lessons conflict with their agenda. They want to erase him from history.

[Lionman95]

I'm not always agreeing with him but I think Biden could be right on that. Yes George Floyd wasn't a good person to say the least BUT no one cares because he didn't get his fame because of his life but because of his death.
Plus times are different George Floyd's death made the news nearly all over the world.
BLM was founded and it led to a talk about racism and different cultures that was at least comparable to MLK.
The injustice people felt when seeing George Floyd die was comparable to what MLK talked about.

[RationalMale]

I love comparing white martyrs vs black martyrs.

Like Trump talked about Kate Steinle, martyr of White People. An innocent woman shot dead on a pier in broad daylight by a convicted felon illegal alien with a stolen cop gun.

Meanwhile George Floyd, martyr of black people--petty thug who tried to spend counterfeit money (federal crime by the way) and then collapsed after he downed the drugs he had on him and resisted arrest.

Really says a lot about White people and black people in the USA.

[SarahP28]

Yup Biden's gone nuts. Martin Luther King was an amazing human rights figure and we all wish he had lived longer. George Floyd didn't deserve to be killed, but he committed a crime and was not a hero. That cop was corrupted, but that doesn't mean every police officer is a racist. If George Floyd had been white in the same situation, he would have been forgotten by now. Black and white people, and all people, ARE EQUAL. I just don't get why this is still such a huge debate. Let's deal with criminals fairly and justly and elect someone with more than 5 brain cells.

[Investigator]

The only way in which this is true is A) it is more relevant (because of its recency) and more importantly, B) the reaction and aftermath of George Floyd's death was a forecast for what our culture has become--an explosive release of many years of pent-up anger, on both sides of the political aisle.

So, in that regard, Joe Biden is correct that Mr. Floyd's death is more impactful than that of MLK Jr--just not in the positive way he probably believes it is.

[Razp_Sorbet]

I mean the George Floyd protests reached world wide with up to 26 million people being involved.

MLK did great things and made an impact while alive but George Floyds death made an impact. There wasn't really any outcomes from kings assassination but there was for Floyd.

[Fuentes]

Biden is special needs comparing an irractic druggy to a great man, who lead a million man march for peace & civil rights & Biden says this? Also the same man who signed bills to put masses of blacks in prison & the same guy who disagreed on giving black kids bus rides during segregation to school. But remember

"Republicans & Trump are all racist" - Clown Liberals

[MCheetah]

I guess he would know, being the self-appointed King of the Black People and all.

"Let's glorify a career felon and spit in the face of an actual hero. Them house n*ggers will eat sh*t that up like chicken and w

[OpenClose]

I mean yeah. I voted for the guy but he isn't mentally all there, so I believe it when he puts his foot in his mouth.

Mostly I figured "the car might be missing an engine, but at least it isn't actively driving backwards."

[jshm2]

No, your little mind is too overwhelmed to understand the gravity of what he is saying.

Maybe Biden needs to use less syllables and more repetitive language to reach you rednecks, like Trump does.

Derek Chauvin by killing George Floyd released a global movement that not even MLK managed. This is partially due to Internet and global connectivity - not merely the message.

[Avicenna]

Biden is a dummy being told what to say by his ventriloquists. His administration is screwing over African Americans like everyone else so his handlers want him to give what they think is lip service.

MLK's death marked the end of the initial phase of the civil rights era and is therefore more significant. Floyd is a merely a propaganda figure who will one day be unknown to most people.

[FR_Ruby]

Where does he say "bigger impact"? Do you think "world wide impact" means bigger or of more importance? I don't have enough context for this. Even if it did, or if he thinks it did: it's not his fault if the impact is or seems bigger, nor does it have anything to do with their impacts upon the world while alive. Obviously MLK was a much better person anyway.

[SlightlyEccentric]

This is coming from the same party who supported the removal of all non-white mascots from food products.

But he isn't technically wrong tho. Because more people reacted violently to his death than MLKs death. It had a devastating impact on communities across the country. Floyd was a nobody PoS compared to MLK, not even worthy enough to kiss Kings feet, but the ultimate reaction from Floyd's death really speaks volumes about the kind of society we live in.