COLUMBIA, S.C. -- In an on-camera address after a week of destructive protests, former Vice President Joe Biden pleaded with his audience to imagine life for black people in America. Imagine, he said, "if every time your husband or son, wife or daughter left the house, you feared for their safety
COLUMBIA, S.C. — In an on-camera address after a week of destructive protests, former Vice President Joe Biden pleaded with his audience to imagine life for black people in America. Imagine, he said, “if every time your husband or son, wife or daughter left the house, you feared for their safety.” Imagine the police called on you for sitting in Starbucks.Exhaustion. For many black Americans across the country, what a year this has been.
It dawned on Sierra Moore, 24, who attended the protests carrying a homemade sign that read “No Justice, No Peace,” that she and her grandmother have been protesting the same issues over the course of a century. Abrams described the events of the past week as what happens when people are desperate for “their pain to be validated.”
The moment may still test Biden’s priorities, as a weary black electorate desires far greater change than the promise of a return to normalcy that has fueled his campaign. Energizing those voters, activists and elected leaders say, means addressing their demands for change and the realities of racism.
On the policy front, a task force with criminal justice experts that supported Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont has already been convened. Biden recently released a “Plan for Black America” covering economic inequality and voting rights. Jackson, who supported Sanders in the primary, said Biden is “a consensus builder” and, if surrounded by the right people, the quality should serve him well.
“MAGA is Make America Great Again,” he said, discussing his voting base. “By the way, they love African-American people, they love black people. MAGA loves the black people.” “Part of the reason these are systemic inequalities is that they transcend not only party but time,” said Abrams, who is among those being vetted by Biden as a potential running mate. She also noted that: “We have to be very intentional about saying this is not about one moment or one murder — but the entire infrastructure of justice.”
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