CBC invites suspended students to Biden’s State of the Union speech

President Biden delivered his State of the Union address on Thursday, two days after Super Tuesday, which essentially cemented his position as the Democratic presidential nominee.

Famous guests included Darryl George, a black student from Texas who was suspended from school for refusing to cut his hair, who Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) invited as a guest.

CBC Chairman’s representative Steven Horsford (NV-04) stated in a press release:

We applaud Darryl and his mother Darresha George for his or her courage to rise up for what is true, and Dr. Adjoa B. Asamoah for leading the national movement to ban hair discrimination based on race. CBC fully supports Darryl’s personal right to wear his hair as he chooses, and we call on the Barbers Hill Independent School District to put an end to this discriminatory charade and immediately allow him to return to the classroom and proceed his education.

As CBC noted, “The ruling and the circumstances surrounding George’s months-long sentence have renewed a national conversation about race-based hair discrimination in schools and the workplace.”

“Moreover, the situation exemplifies the widespread experience of discrimination faced by Black Americans and the need to pass the CROWN Act at the federal level to end race-based hair discrimination across the country,” the press release continued.

Other surprise guests? Jerzy Santosthe former New York representative, expelled from Congress last December, wearing a crystal-encrusted collar.

Santos took advantage of “lifetime privileges granted to former members of the House – even those who have been removed from office,” which contradicted his last words before his departure, during which he declared, “To hell with this place.”

Biden began his remarks with a comparison President Franklin Roosevelt The State of the Union Address in 1941, when World War II was going down in Europe. Facing criticism for his response to the mass killings of Palestinians in Gaza and several other progressive congresswomen calling for a ceasefire, the President stated that “this is not an ordinary moment” and that “freedom and democracy have been attacked.”

More than two years after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Biden spoke about the importance of staying on the sidelines Ukrainecalling on “Congress to pass the bipartisan Ukraine aid bill currently pending in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.”

Other issues discussed included reproductive rights and Biden’s presumptive challenger in the November presidential election, Donald Trump.

“While Mr. Biden did not mention Trump by name, he frequently chided ‘my predecessor,’ highlighting the upcoming unusual race in which two presidents are pursuing starkly different agendas,” he noted. CBS.

President Biden also promised to “keep it protected,” adding a caveat “if the American people send me a Congress that supports the right to choose.”

Despite concerns about Biden’s advanced age and fitness for office, he added some energetic notes podium. “When you get to be my age, some things will become clearer than ever,” Biden cheekily observed.

“The problem facing our nation is not how old we are, but how old our ideas are,” he said. President he added and later mentioned that “we cannot be guided by ancient ideas.”