Biden calls on Americans to reject 'poison' of white supremacy

Published 05/17/2022, 12:45 PM
Updated 05/17/2022, 01:36 PM
© Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden pay their respects to the 10 people killed in a mass shooting by a gunman authorities say was motivated by racism, at the TOPS Friendly Markets memorial site in Buffalo, NY, U.S. May 17, 2022. REUTERS/Lea

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S President Joe Biden on Tuesday called on all Americans to reject the "poison" of white supremacy, addressing families and local officials at the Buffalo, New York, site of what police say is a racially motivated mass shooting over the weekend.

© Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks, after paying respects and meeting with victims, family, first responders and law enforcement who were affected by the mass shooting committed by a gunman authorities say was motivated by racism, at Delavan Grider Community Center in Buffalo, NY, U.S. May 17, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis

"White sumpremacy is a poison. It's a poison - it really is - running through our body politic," Biden said.

He said the white gunman who killed nine Black Americans and a white security guard trying to protect them was fueled by "hate that through the media and politics, the internet has radicalized angry alienated, lost and isolated individuals into falsely believing that they will be replaced …by the other. By people who don’t look like them."

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