Posted on 05/31/2020 3:47:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
... Former vice president Joe Biden released a paper statement just after midnight eastern on the ongoing unrest and protests currently gripping several major American cities, urging an understanding of the trauma many people of color in America are facing in the wake of George Floyd’s death, but also speaking out against the “needless destruction,” that is playing out as a result of the protests.
“These last few days have laid bare that we are a nation furious at injustice. Every person of conscience can understand the rawness of the trauma people of color experience in this country, from the daily indignities to the extreme violence, like the horrific killing of George Floyd,” Biden wrote.
“Protesting such brutality is right and necessary. It’s an utterly American response. But burning down communities and needless destruction is not. Violence that endangers lives is not. Violence that guts and shutters businesses that serve the community is not,” he added.
“The act of protesting should never be allowed to overshadow the reason we protest. It should not drive people away from the just cause that protest is meant to advance,” Biden wrote.
Biden also acknowledged the widespread pain across the country, but implored the country to use the current anger to “compel our nation across this turbulent threshold into the next phase of progress, inclusion, and opportunity for our great democracy.”
“I know that there are people all across this country who are suffering tonight. Suffering the loss of a loved one to intolerable circumstances, like the Floyd family, or to the virus that is still gripping our nation. Suffering economic hardships, whether due to COVID-19 or entrenched inequalities in our system. And I know that a grief that dark and deep may at times feel too heavy to bear,” Biden said.
“I know.”
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Released a “Paper statement....”
That says it all, couldn’t actually speak a coherent sentence, so a staffer wrote up some predictable Democrat recycled tripe.
How many stores that have been damaged-—looted-—burned-— are owned by Democrat voters?
How many Democrat voters just lost their jobs at Target stores in Minnesota?
Will all of those voters be supportive of Slo Joe & his comments?
How many Democrat voters will vote differently in November???
His power hungry bitch wife writes them.
For an “utterly American response” it sure looks a lot like Somalia.
I do what the police and the NG won't do. I shoot looters. They may give us a chance to whittle down their numbers by increased destruction.
Does he know his staff is contributing bail $$ to them?
Re-open protestors weren’t violent, though some of them carried guns. They were accused of murdering grandma and being so selfish they’d let innocent people die. But they didn’t burn anything. They didn’t loot. Cops weren’t afraid of them.
The difference is the ideology of the protestors. Liberal protestors are violent. That’s why they’re a threat to our safety.
Translation: You are black enough to vote for me.
This will finish him! The middle class voter will not tolerate violence. The Democrats are now on the side of anarchy.
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