President Joe Biden said Thursday that white supremacy is what motivated supporters of Donald Trump to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6 and accused his predecessor of appealing to racists.
spoke at the 10-year anniversary of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C.,
where he said he believed that “the violent, deadly insurrection on the Capitol nine months ago” was about white supremacy. He then mentioned the “through-line” of American racism, from enslaved Black people to the Ku Klux Klan, to far-right white supremacists and neo-Nazis. That timeline includes other recent episodes of racism in America, with Biden bringing up the spike in hate crimes against Asian Americans, police brutality against Black and brown people, the 2017 deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the Jan. 6 insurrection.
“The through-line is that hate never goes away. In all the years I’ve been involved, I thought once we got through it, it would go away. But it doesn’t; it only hides,” he said. “It only hides until some seeming legitimate person breathes some oxygen under the rocks where they’re hiding, and gives them some breath.”,” Biden continued. He later added: “We cannot and must not give hate any safe harbor.
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