US President Joe Biden has insisted that white supremacy of all kinds, fueled by violence, has no place in the US, amid a surge in hate-related incidents across the country against Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims.
Biden said in his address, “Regardless of our background, our beliefs, we have to stand united against hate-filled violence, which you know from anyone, forever an attack on one group of us literally an attack on all of us.” Is.” At the “United We Stand” summit hosted by the White House on Thursday.
Addressing a gathering of participants from across the country in the East Room of the White House, Biden said he decided to run for president after such incidents.
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“I had no intention of running. I promise you. I was teaching and I thought it was the best thing for me, as Chris knows, my colleague from Delaware. But Charlottesville changed everything because my believed that our story is about uniting as one nation and one people of America,” he said.
“When those people came out of those – the area carrying torches, the United States, carrying torches, chanting the same anti-Semitic bile they had with white supremacists holding Nazi flags in Germany in the early 30s , and I thought to myself, My God, this is the United States, said how could that be?” The President said.
In 2020, hate crimes in the US were the highest in more than a decade, and the Justice Department has pledged to step up efforts to combat it.
The idea of America, he saw, guarantees all, everyone is treated with respect and equality, an idea that ensures an inclusive, multiracial democracy, an idea that we have no reason to hate. Do not provide a safe haven.
“While we’ve never, as I said, completely lived up to the idea, we’ve never run into it before. Look, Kamala (Harris) and I traveled to Atlanta to mourn with Asian-American residents Violence against the community increased during the pandemic, many people were simply afraid to walk the streets of America,” he said.
Noting that the summit is being attended by presidents of historically black colleges and universities, who should be able to focus on providing the best possible experience for their students, he said, instead, they should be held against and against their institutions. More bomb threats to worry about. Often Native Americans, Americans with disabilities face persecution, discrimination, and violence and persecution.
“Unfortunately, this kind of hate-filled violence and threats is not new to America. From the genocide of indigenous peoples to the original sins of slavery, the terror of the Klan, to anti-immigration violence against Irish, Italians, Chinese, Mexicans, through the line of hatred, many of them through our history,” he said. Told.
“Through the line of violence against religious groups, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, anti-Mormon, anti-Muslim, anti-Hindu, anti-Sikh. Look guys, that line of hatred never goes away completely. It only hides,” Biden said.
He saw that hatred could be defeated. “It just hides. When you give it any oxygen, it comes out from under rocks. And over the years it’s been given a lot of oxygen in our politics, in our media and on the internet, for power and profit.” There is so much hatred for everyone,” he said.
“You need to explicitly and forcefully say white supremacy, all forms of hatred driven by violence, has no place in America. One barrier that is called collusion, my dad would say. If your silence has collusion, So we cannot remain silent,” he said.
Biden said his administration would use every federal resource available to help communities combat hate-mongering violence, build resilience and promote greater national unity.
For example, training in identifying, reporting and combating hate violence from local law enforcement agencies, workplaces and places of worship. Partnerships with schools that help them combat bullying and harassment. “And I’m calling for a new era of national service for organizations like AmeriCorps, to foster strong communities and bridge the divide in our society,” he said.
Biden called on Congress to play its part, and raised the living allowance for national service positions to US$15 an hour. It would make national service an accessible path to success for more Americans of all backgrounds. “Pass my budget and raise funds to protect nonprofits and houses of worship from hate-filled violence,” he said.
“Hold social media platforms responsible for spreading hatred and promoting violence. I am calling on Congress to get rid of special exemptions for social media companies and to impose more transparency on all of them for crime,” the president said.
Recently, Indian-American Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal said that she has been receiving derogatory and hateful messages on the phone from a male caller who also asked her to go back to India.
Jayapal, 55, is the first Indian-American Congressman to represent Seattle in the US House of Representatives.
Usually, political figures do not show their vulnerability. I chose to do this here because we cannot accept violence as our new norm. In a tweet, the Democratic Party’s Jayapal said, “We cannot even accept the racism and sexism that drives so much of this violence.”
There have also been incidents of hatred against the Indian-American community in the US.
An Indian-American man was racially abused on September 1 by a compatriot in California who hurled racist abuses that he was a “dirty Hindu” and a “disgusting dog”. Community in Texas.
NBC News reported that Krishnan Jayaraman was verbally assaulted by 37-year-old Singh Tejinder at Taco Bell on Grimmer Boulevard in Fremont, California, on August 21.
On August 26, four Indian-American women were racially abused and thrashed in Texas by a Mexican-American woman who hurled racist slurs at them that they were “ruining” America and called them “Must go back to India”.
The incident took place in a parking lot in Dallas, Texas. A woman named Esmeralda Upton has been arrested.
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