Former US Vice President Joe Biden delivered a passionate rebuke of the “domestic terrorism of white supremacy,” on Sunday morning at the 56th memorial observance of the 1963 bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four African American girls.
“We must acknowledge that there can be no realization of the American dream without grappling with the original sin of slavery, brought to these shores over 400 years ago. And the centuries-long campaign of violence, fear, trauma wrought upon black people in this country.”
Biden also acknowledged that white people, no matter their efforts, can never truly understand how racism and hate have affected African Americans throughout the country’s history. He also warned that despite all people being equal was one of the truths America held as “self evident” as a nation still “we have not relegated racism and white supremacy to the pages of history.” Read more here.
