President Joe Biden speaks during the United We Stand Summit in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022.
The summit is aimed at combating a spate of hate-fueled violence in the U.S., as he works to deliver on his campaign pledge to"heal the soul of the nation." WASHINGTON — “The car that struck her ruptured her abdominal aorta in four places at once,” Susan Bro said, describing the horrific crash that killed her daughter Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Va., five years ago.
Ahead of the event, titled “United We Stand,” the White House unveiled a raft of initiatives intended to “ renew civic bonds and heal divides.” “That’s not America, not who we are,” Biden said of the period bookmarked by those two events, even as the threat persists today. The steps outlined by the White House on Thursday reflected the recognition that in a digitized society where isolation is quickly becoming the norm, extremists have a ready audience, especially among disaffected young men.
Biden also called on Congress"to get rid of special immunity for social media companies and impose much stronger transparency requirements on all of them," a reference to