“In America, evil will not win, I promise you,” Biden said. “Hate will not prevail, white supremacy will not have the last word.”
PUBLISHED 7:42 AM EDT May. 17, 2022President Joe Biden on Tuesday condemned the "poison" of white supremacy and said the nation must “reject the lie” of the racist “replacement theory” espoused by the shooter who murdered 10 Black Americans in Buffalo.
Saturday's shooting was the deadliest racist attack since Biden took office last year, and it's another manifestation of the bigotry that he vowed to confront while running for president President Biden, a devout Catholic, made the sign of the cross before stepping aside to let other members of the delegation traveling with them – including Gov. Kathy Hochul and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. – lay flowers as well.
"Ten lives cut short in a grocery store," he said. "Evil did come to Buffalo. It's come to all too many places.""White supremacy is a poison. It's a poison ... running through our body politic. And it's been allowed to fester and grow right in front of our eyes," the president said. "We need to say as clearly and forcefully as we can that the ideology of white supremacy has no place in America.
"It is going to be very difficult, but I am not going to give up," he said on the tarmac at Buffalo's airport. On Monday, Biden paid particular tribute to one of the victims, retired police officer Aaron Salter, who was working as a security guard at the store. He said Salter "gave his life trying to save others" by opening fire at the gunman, only to be killed himself. Payton Gendron, 18, was arrested at the supermarket and charged with murder. He has pleaded not guilty.
The racist ideology is often interwoven with antisemitism, with Jews identified as the culprits. During the 2017 "Unite the Right" march in Charlottesville, the white supremacists chanted "Jews will not replace us." "The people who spread this filth, they know who they are and they should be ashamed of themselves but I’m not going to give them or their noxious ideas they are pushing the attention that they desperately want," she said.
"So because a mentally ill teenager murdered strangers, you cannot be allowed to express your political beliefs out loud," he said. Stefanik is the third-ranking leader of the House Republican caucus, replacing Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who angered the party with her denunciations of Trump after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
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