Wearing the clothes of chief comforter, Joe Biden met relatives of the victims of the shooting which left 10 dead – all blacks – following going to the memorial erected at the supermarket where the tragedy occurred on Saturday.
We have come to share your grief
later said the 79-year-old politician, whose life has been marked by several bereavementsspeaking at a community center.
Often moved, he paid tribute to each of the victims, for example this cancer survivor grandmother who went to buy strawberries, this father who came to get a birthday cake for his three-year-old son or this retired policeman who tried to stop the shooter.
President Biden also attacked thehateful ideology
presumably underlying the Buffalo massacre.
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« White supremacy is poison. It’s a poison, really, that runs through our body politic. And we let it fester and grow before our eyes. Never once more. I mean never once more. We need to say as clearly and forcefully as we can that white supremacist ideology has no place in America. »
Hatred will not prevail. White supremacy will not have the last word
promised the one who had explained by the white supremacist protest in CharlottesvilleVirginia, his decision to run for president in order to restore the soul of america
.
Mr. Biden also mentioned this march, during which neo-Nazis, torch in hand, had chanted: The Jews will not replace us
. It was in reaction to this episode that Donald Trump, then President, declared that there was good people on both sides
by refusing to condemn the extreme right.
Rejecting the “great replacement” lie
The Democratic president also denounced the conspiracy theory of the great replacement
mentioned by the Buffalo shooting suspect in a long manifest
posted online shortly before the tragedy and deemed authentic by the authorities.
This far-right ideology that elites, especially Jews, want to replace the white population among other things through immigration, has made its way into more conventional right-wing circles, in a watered-down version where evacuated overtly anti-Semitic themes.
« I call on all Americans to reject this lie, and I condemn anyone who spreads it to gain power, votes, money. »
Those who claim to love America have given too much fuel to hate and fear
he lamented, however refraining from specifically naming the culprits.
On Monday, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, for his part, pointed the finger at Trumpist Republicans, the Fox News network and its star host Tucker Carlson.
Republican Representative Liz Cheney meanwhile challenged the leaders of his own formation.
The management of [Parti républicain] of the House of Representatives has made white nationalism, white supremacy and anti-Semitism excusable. History has taught us that what begins with words ends with much worse.
tweeted the former number three of the formation in the House.
“domestic terrorism”
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The elected Democrat thus offered a marked contrast with his predecessor, Donald Trump, who according to Homeland Security officials neglected this threat and even prohibited the use of these terms.
Neighborhood residents interviewed by the New York Times said they wanted more than words, and wanted action.
After his meeting with President Biden, the Mayor of Buffalo, Byron Brown, quoted by CNN, for his part praised his compassion
. Adding to have perceived at Joe Biden a strong sense of purpose and commitment […] to try to make changes
he said they had discussed gun control and what to do to stop the shootings.
A major reform of firearms going to be very difficult, but i’m not going to give up trying
the president told reporters.
