Posted on 05/17/2022 7:00:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Joe Biden talks about his decision to run against President Donald Trump in 2020, the story always starts with Charlottesville. He says it was the men with torches shouting bigoted slogans that drove him to join what he calls the “battle for the soul of America.”
Now Biden is facing the latest deadly manifestation of hatred after a white supremacist targeted Black people with an assault rifle at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and left 10 people dead, the most lethal racist attack since he took office.
The president and first lady Jill Biden are to visit the city on Tuesday, where their first stop will be a makeshift memorial outside the supermarket. They’re also expected to meet privately with families of the victims, first responders and local officials before the president delivers public remarks.
In a speech at a nearby community center, Biden plans to call for stricter gun laws and urge Americans to reject racism and embrace the nation’s diversity, the White House said.
It’s a message that Biden has delivered several times since he became the first president to specifically address white supremacy in an inaugural speech, calling it “domestic terrorism that we must confront.” However, such beliefs remain an entrenched threat at a time when his administration has been preoccupied with crises involving the pandemic, inflation and the war in Ukraine.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, told a Buffalo radio station that she invited Biden to the city.
“I said, ‘Mr. President, it would be so powerful if you came here,’” Hochul said. ”‘This community is in such pain, and to see the president of the United States show them the attention that Buffalo doesn’t always get.’”
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How can shootings be racist when no one ever uses a white gun?
Blah blah blah -
How about going after the black & Hispanic caucuses? Or is that kind of racism OK?
Black lives, Hispanic lives don’t matter, when they are shot in gang fights and ongoing violence in the ghettos of our cities.
These lives only matter, when they are shot by someone who is white and/or a police officer.
Not to mention ‘the Squad’...
Joey doesn’t care about the black people getting killed in Chicago? Why not visit there Mr. Resident? Do you not care? Or are you a white supremacist?
Buffalo needs Joe there as much as the Bills need another Superbowl loss.
I think Biden should blame it all on the shooter’s atheism, which he expressed in his written statement.
Why would an atheist select a supermarket rather than a church to shoot up?
Chris, did you remember to wipe your chin after writing this screed ?
Yeah. Lethal racist attacks by Democrats are really piling up:
The only thing I get from this is that young children, mentally ill, and Leftists (same thing) shouldn't be allowed to own firearms.
Nearly 200 mostly black and Hispanic murder victims in Chicago this year already, less than 10 white murder victims. Brandon care? Nope. No visits planned to mourn there. No power or money to be gained from black initiated crime.
I’m sure that Ol’ ShizzPantz will confront his adult diaper - hopefully not onstage...
Ive been listening to National propoganda radio and it’s non stop black leaders calling this a racist attack.
They have plenty of sob stories to go around with non stop racist stories about 60 years ago and how it’s happening again
Sniff sniff smells like ASS.💩 Press.
He could choose any place that he wants. My point was not that the shooter was trying to kill Christians but that Biden’s choice of what to blame was selective. He wants to talk about racism, but one could also argue that the “If there is no God, all is permitted” might have influenced the shooter’s behavior. He wants to blame conservatives for, in his mind, supporting racism, but not atheists for supposedly undermining basic morality. Blaming either of those groups is equally unfair, but he gets a lot more political capital by blaming conservatives.
That’s different. It was an “SUV crash.” This poor man was a victim of another renegade SUV.
Yes, the gunman killed 10 people and that’s horrible. But that’s about average for ONE weekend in Chicago. Does he go to Chicago every week?
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