President Joe Biden, who declared a re-election challenge in the 2024 presidential election, visited a prestigious black university to criticize racial discrimination, including white supremacy, and started courting black and young voters.
Referring to the 2017 white supremacist violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, he said, “Neo-Nazis came out with angry faces, literally carrying torches and Nazi flags, shouting the same anti-Semitic remarks heard in Europe in the 1930s.” “The activists came out in broad daylight from dark rooms and internet anonymity to confront the decent Americans who stood in their way.” “This is something I never thought I would see in America,” he said.
“At the time, you heard the famous remark that ‘both sides are great people’,” he said. “That was when I knew I had to go back to public office,” he said. indicated that there was President Biden said, “We must vote for democracy and reject political extremism and political violence,” and “protect basic rights, women’s freedom to choose, and the freedom of transgender children.”
Previously, former President Trump said at a press conference immediately after the Charlottesville incident at the time, “I condemn the hatred and violence that appeared on many sides,” and “both sides are responsible,” and white supremacists as well as protest rallies at these rallies. The leftist group that staged the riot was also controversial when it said that it was responsible.
Howard University, which President Biden visited on this day, is a traditional black university (HBCU) established during the implementation of the US racial segregation policy.
There are about 100 HBCUs in the United States, and the Biden government is being evaluated as actively providing financial support to these universities.