Biden's Controversial Moments: From 'Say Her Name' to Mocking Confrontations
Marjorie Taylor Greene wore a "Say Her Name" T-shirt to Biden's State of the Union address, co-opting a rallying cry originally used by Black racial justice activists to draw attention to extrajudicial deaths of Black women at the hands of police and vigilantes. The phrase was popularized by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 2015 following the death of Sandra Bland, and is meant to highlight cases of police brutality against Black women. Greene's use of the phrase to goad Biden into mentioning Laken Riley, a nursing student whose death is central to the U.S. immigration debate, has been criticized as an appropriation of civil rights movements.