"White supremacy has no place in America."
President Biden spoke out against white supremacy following a racist shooting in Buffalo, New York.
President Biden spoke out against white supremacy following a racist shooting in Buffalo, New York.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00White supremacy is a poison.
00:02We need to say as clearly and forcefully as we can that the ideology of white supremacy
00:08has no place in America.
00:11Evil will not win, I promise you.
00:14Hate will not prevail.
00:16And white supremacy will not have the last word.
00:21For the evil did come to Buffalo, and it's come to all too many places, manifesting gunmen
00:30who massacred innocent people in the name of hateful and perverse ideology, rooted in
00:36fear and racism.
00:39It's taken so much.
00:43Ten lives cut short in a grocery store, three other wounded by a hate-filled individual
00:48who had driven 200 miles from Binghamton and that range to carry out a murderous, racist
00:55rampage that he would live stream, live stream to the world.
01:03What happened here is simple and straightforward, terrorism, terrorism, domestic terrorism,
01:12violence inflicting in the service of hate and the vicious thirst for power that defines
01:18one group of people being inherently inferior to any other group, a hate that through the
01:25media and politics, the Internet has radicalized angry, alienated, lost, and isolated individuals
01:34into falsely believing that they will be replaced, that's the word, replaced by the other, by
01:42people who don't look like them.
01:44I and all of you reject the lie.
01:47I call on all Americans to reject the lie, and I condemn those who spread the lie for
01:53power, political gain, and for profit.
01:58White supremacy is a poison.
02:01It's a poison running through our, it really is, running through our body politic, and
02:10it's been allowed to fester and grow right in front of our eyes.
02:14No more.
02:15I mean, no more.
02:17We need to say as clearly and forcefully as we can that the ideology of white supremacy
02:22has no place in America, none, silence is complicity, it's complicity.
02:32We cannot remain silent, hate and fear being given too much oxygen by those who pretend
02:38to love America, but who don't understand America.
02:42To confront the ideology of hate requires caring about all people, not making distinctions.
02:49We are the most multiracial, most dynamic nation in the history of the world.
02:54Now is the time for the people of all races, from every background, to speak up as a majority
03:01in America and reject white supremacy.