JOE BIDEN/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I made a mistake about something. I thought you could defeat hate. Hate only hides. It only hides. And when someone in authority breathes oxygen under that rock, it legitimizes those folks to come on out, come out in front of the rocks… I saw those people coming out of Charlottesville, […]
Tag: Charlottesville
8/27/2020
JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Have you ever heard this president [Trump] say one negative thing about white supremacists? Have you ever heard it? That’s the reason I got back in this race because of what happened in Charlottesville. People coming out of the woods carrying torches, their veins bulging… and a young women gets killed […]
8/27/2020
JOE BIDEN/RACISM: “What got me involved in this [2020 election] race when I hadn’t planned on running was what happened in Charlottesville… these guys don’t use a dog whistle, they use a bullhorn… This is not who we are, this is not who America is. They wanna bring about some order and safety and security […]
8/23/2020
JOE BIDEN/KAMALA HARRIS/RACISM: [Robin Roberts: “So when you have a running mate who makes a comment like, ‘you ain’t Black,’ and leads some people to say, ‘he just doesn’t get it.’ Have you been able to speak truth to him about that?”] “Listen, when Joe and I talk about, and frankly have talked about, over […]
8/20/2020
ANTI-SEMITISM/JOE BIDEN/NEO-NAZI: “Just a week ago yesterday was the third anniversary of the events in Charlottesville. Remember seeing those neo-Nazis and Klansmen and white supremacists coming out of the fields with lighted torches? Veins bulging? Spewing the same anti-Semitic bile heard across Europe in the ’30s? Remember the violent clash that ensued between those spreading hate […]
8/18/2020
JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Think about what happened when those folks came out in Charlottesville, carrying those torches. Close your eyes and remember what you saw, chanting the same anti-Semitic bile that was chanted in the streets of Germany in the ’30s, accompanied by the Ku Klux Klan. And a young woman gets killed protesting […]
8/12/2020
2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN: “As we look ahead to the choice we must make as a country this November [in the 2020 election], let Charlottesville be a reminder of the national imperative we all share: to weed out the division that the president has created over the last four years and to come together — as […]
8/12/2020
ANTI-SEMITISM/JOE BIDEN/NEO-NAZI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Three years ago today, the world watched in horror as neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and far-right extremists with torches in hand descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, spewing the same anti-Semitic bile that was heard in Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s… And then our president claimed that there were ‘very fine people on both […]
8/12/2020
JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Three years ago today, white supremacists descended on Charlottesville with torches in hand and hate in their hearts. Our president said they were ‘very fine people.’ It was clear then, and it’s clear now: We are in a battle for the soul of our nation, and we must win. Heather Heyer […]
5/29/2020
JOE BIDEN/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “You know, I used to think that you can defeat bigotry. But it only hides. It only hides. And when it’s given oxygen, like it has happened since Charlottesville with this president and in fact brings up the worst and sort of condones activity that is across the board totally inappropriate. […]
8/7/2019
JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When he [Donald Trump] said after Charlottesville there were, and I quote, ‘very fine people on both sides’, I said, then it gave license and safe harbor to white supremacists and Neo Nazis and the Klu Klux Klan. These words not only stunned America, but they stunned the world and in […]
8/15/2017
PROTESTS/NEO-NAZI/STATUES: “Okay, what about the alt-left that came charging at — excuse me, what about the alt-left that came charging at the, as you say, the alt-right? Do they have any semblance of guilt? Let me ask you this: What about the fact that they came charging with clubs in their hands, swinging clubs? Do […]