That’s not what that phrase means. At all. That might have been the majority opinion.
When you say something like “the majority persuasion,” it means white people.
And you are putting the entirety of the civil rights movements on the words of one man, which is incredibly unfair to the huge number of very hard-working Americans, including some who eventually were in the U.S. government and endorsed that horrible, evil, racist Joe Biden you hate so much- notably these two: