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Biden says if that were BLM they would have been treated very differently.
- Thread starter KtotheRoc
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Hopefully something is actually done as punishment to the terrorists who did all of that yesterday. I do like that Biden is saying this, but hopefully in two weeks we actually start to see change in this aspect.
have our standards fallen so low that this is worthy of applause? this shouldnt even be the bare minimum that we should expect
It's really good that this is being said. And it can't be said enough.
Glad he didn't mince words on this. This needs to be blasted as far and wide as possible. I hope yesterday was a wake up call to at least some people out there that think there isn't a difference in the law between whites and minorities. God yesterday was pathetic.
House seargeant-at-arms resigned, Senate sergeant-at-arms either going to resign or be fired when Dems take over, Pelosi called for Capitol Police chief resignation... Yes, things are happening.
Even if what's in Biden's heart hasn't changed since the 90s (I think it has), it's great to hear this kind of thing said aloud by the next President. This and the way he gives a shout out to Native American tribes suggests to me at the least that he has inclusive speech writers.
10000000% This can not be said enough. It's like people forgot the last few terrible years when you had an orange turd say shit like BOTH SIDES!!!
Our current president just egged on a failed coup. You tell me.
Yeah, even my parents who are more moderate and tended to be a bit more on the sides of the cops during the BLM protests (mostly just playing devil's advocate and trying to see their side of things) were calling out the disparity of treatment between the BLM and Trump cultist riots. Everyone noticed, and skeptics are starting to realize that the minorities actually are being oppressed by the police for their skin color instead of their actions.
I have a strong hopeful feeling that defund the police movements will start to gain a lot more traction after what happened yesterday, and it's good to see Biden straight up say what everyone was thinking. Let's hope that his actions and the actions of the democratic congress will allow for change, even if I have my doubts that will actually happen
I have a strong hopeful feeling that defund the police movements will start to gain a lot more traction after what happened yesterday, and it's good to see Biden straight up say what everyone was thinking. Let's hope that his actions and the actions of the democratic congress will allow for change, even if I have my doubts that will actually happen
Granted, I had to stop watching around 8pm last night because I was getting too mad, but the only thing I saw last night was the police lying about the efforts made to keep those people out of the capitol building. I want action beyond people dropping out of the system so they can go somewhere else "without a stain of shame" on their resumes.
I'm not gonna applaud him for this when he just spent his entire campaign dodging and downplaying the issue.
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"He unleashed an all-out assault on the institutions of our Democracy from the outset, and yesterday was the culmination of that unrelenting attack," said Biden, who then unleashed an all-out assault on Trump's tenure, outlining four years of examples of Trump's attempts to undermine institutions.
Then Biden said that his granddaughter Finnegan sent him a picture Wednesday showing scores of law enforcement officials lined up on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the Black Lives Matter protest last summer — a stark contrast with the smaller, less armored law enforcement presence than the one that confronted what Biden called "a riotous mob" and "domestic terrorists" at the Capitol Wednesday. Biden said Finnegan told him the difference "wasn't fair," and he agreed.
"You can't tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday they wouldn't have been treated very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol," Biden said, before beginning to hammer his fist against the lectern.
"We all know that is true. And it is totally unacceptable. Totally unacceptable. The American people saw it in plain view."
It is profound hearing it from someone who is just about to be president, after running on a campaign of reaching across the aisle to heal divides. Obama never brought up the systemic racism in American policing while president, as far as I know. And Clinton straight up empowered police forces from what I understand.
In a country where half the population insists that BLM is a terrorist organisation and have to create conspiracies and lies about how the terrorists yesterday were antifa secret agents intending to make Trump look bad, even after Trump sympathised with them and told them he loved them, it is a profound statement. It's a rejection of white supremacy, of claims that they were peaceful patriots and a warning shot at republicans that they can't keep provoking those kinds of scenes.
Imagine the spear-carrying shirtless Viking man were black.
or the guy stealing the podium...
or the dude sitting in Pelosi's office...
None of them would have made it so far. But the reaction of the Trump sympathizers would've been vastly different.
or the guy stealing the podium...
or the dude sitting in Pelosi's office...
None of them would have made it so far. But the reaction of the Trump sympathizers would've been vastly different.
I was not, at all, expecting him to call out the hypocrisy in action, and it is the first sign of hope I have seen from Government that they are finally listening to us.
Needed to be said flat out, unavoidably for the nation to hear.
Stating the obvious has been SORELY missing for the last 4 years.
Stating the obvious has been SORELY missing for the last 4 years.
I'm glad we've gotten to the point that a mainstream white male politician can just say that without mealymouthing around it. Good for Biden for saying this, but also this is a testament to how far BLM has managed to shift the discourse on police brutality over the last few years. The bump in support from George Floyd's murder may have mostly dissipated but they're still dragging the country forward inch by painful inch.
This dude is my spirit animal of 2021 I've watched this like 10 times in the last day.
I don't know who homeboy is, but he can take 2 plates home from the cookout
The words of a president, as we've come to learn these past days especially, have meaning.
Good on Joe for saying what we all know to be true!
Good on Joe for saying what we all know to be true!
Would you prefer that he not say it? Given the election results from November, alot of people need to hear this from a president.
its a true statement and he should say it! i dont have to applaud him for it and i can expect more from him than just that
Biden's first executive order is to grant all people legal whiteness.
However you want to rank it, nearly no major national mainstream political figure has ever reached it. Should a student not celebrate raising their grade from an F to a D-?