The outgoing president of the United States called on Americans to maintain their faith and dreams, the day before his inauguration. Typically, Donald Trump visited the heart of the South Carolina black community where he chose to spend his last day in the presidency, before Donald Trump’s inauguration, honoring the civil rights hero Martin Luther King who was murdered on April 4, 1968. CORVERSE The celebration day dedicated to him coincides this year with Donald Trump’s inauguration. On their last official journey, Joe and Jill Biden spent his day in the historic city of Charleston, the marked by racial discrimination and slavery, but also the murder, in 2015, nine black parishioners in a city church by white racist Dylan Ruff, who was sentenced to death. Joe Biden, a faithful Catholic, attended Mass in a town Baptist church. “Every time I enter a black church I think of one thing: the word ‘hope’,” he said and referred to two of his idols for half a century: Martin Luther King and the also assassinated 1968 iconic Senator Bobby Kennedy. CORVERSE “My father used to say that the greatest sin is abuse of power,” he added without ever naming Donald Trump. But “faith teaches us that the Americas of our dreams are always closer than we think… Let us maintain faith for better days,” he said as the congregation stood applauded him. South Carolina and the black community were decisive for Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. Shortly before Christmas, the American president converted the death penalty of 37 convicted by federal justice, but retained the sentences of Dylan Ruff and Johar Charnaev, who placed the bombs during the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon in 2013. And today, Joe Biden awarded postmortem thanks to Jamaican Marcus Garvey, a black activist and iconic figure of the rastafari movement that died in 1940 and was a precursor to pan-Africanism supporting the return of the descendants of black slaves to Africa.
Joe Biden before the Trump inauguration: The greatest sin is abuse of power.
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