President Joe Biden called Monday for action to end the type of “hate-fueled violence” that authorities said motivated a white man to fatally shoot three Black people at a Florida store over the weekend. Biden said people must speak out about injustice.
“We can’t let hate prevail, and it’s on the rise. It’s not diminishing,” Biden said at the White House as he met with civil rights advocates and the children of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington.
“Silence, I believe, we’ve all said many times, silence is complicity,” Biden said. “We’re not going to remain silent and, so, we have to act against this hate-fueled violence.”
Silence is not the only way to be complicit. Cheap talk without action will do the job.
The problem is that Biden can only do so much. We like to imagine that the President is the ultimate leader of the land, but he really isn’t. If Congress refuses to act (or can’t due to filibusters in the Senate and a Republican controlled House), then the President can only do so much.
It also doesn’t help when one of the two major parties tossed their dogwhistles aside and whips out the bullhorns instead. It’s wrong to imply that both sides are equally to blame when one side is actively encouraging the racists and the other side is trying but failing to stop them.
Please point out where I suggested the blame was equal. I don’t want to eat a shot sandwich, but it’s self-evidently better than a shit-and-glass-shard sandwich. That’s how I see the Dems and GOP. Bothsidesism is for fools.
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Tbf you don’t know what they’re doing in addition to this. I’d get this comment on facebook or somewhere that you know the poster, but for all we know, Izzent is actually out there marching and more.
You don’t know me, what I do, or what I have done. And because I do know what I’ve done, I don’t have to justify myself to you. Just because you sit on your ass all day arguing on the internet doesn’t mean that’s what everyone’s doing. Any more projection, you could run a movie theater.
I mean if hurricanes are an indication of anything it’s that God hates the racists and their wealthy donors that live in central florida.
Hopefully this current one will wash a lot of them away because if there’s a Nazi nest that needs a cleaning it’s definitely in that area.
The action, which won’t be taken, is sorely needed.
It will only get worse.
Maybe start with the inciters of racism and violence, your colleagues across the aisle.
Remember when trump sent a bunch of military and goons into Portland Oregon over BLM protests that up to that point had merely resulted in a little bit of damaged property? Yeah, I don’t think I’d have much to complain about if Biden sent troops into a few conservative states to sort some hate-crime stuff out.
Unfortunately we need more militantly anti-white-supremacy institutions to make a dent in the problem, and what we get is an occasional report acknowledging the issue and candle vigils to ‘raise awareness’.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden called Monday for action to end the type of “hate-fueled violence” that authorities said motivated a white man to fatally shoot three Black people at a Florida store over the weekend.
Biden also addressed a reception Monday evening to mark the 60th anniversary of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a nonpartisan, nonprofit legal organization that was established at President John F. Kennedy’s request to help advocate for racial justice.
Biden told the civil rights lawyers in the crowd that the country still needed them “badly” and called them “critical partners” in his administration’s fight for equity.
In an opinion piece written for the Washington Post, Biden said the administration is working to advance King’s dream of a society in which people don’t judge others by their skin color.
Biden’s meeting with King’s family and his remarks at the reception will give the president, who is running for reelection, an opportunity to appeal to Black voters by talking about what he and the broader administration have done to help make their lives better.
He kept a promise to put a Black woman — the first to serve — on the Supreme Court, but has been unable to follow through on pledges to shore up voting rights or enact changes to policing to help stop violence against people of color by law enforcement.
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