Article 6HQ50 "Complete Hypocrisy": Activist Bree Newsome Bass on Biden Fighting Racism While Funding Gaza Genocide

"Complete Hypocrisy": Activist Bree Newsome Bass on Biden Fighting Racism While Funding Gaza Genocide

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President Biden delivered his second campaign speech of the year Monday at the historic Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where a white supremacist gunman killed nine people in 2015. Biden remembered the victims, spoke of the poison of white supremacy" and assailed his Republican rivals for not taking racism seriously, but Biden's speech was interrupted at one point by protesters demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, where Israel's U.S.-backed war has killed over 23,000 people. There's no way we're fighting white supremacy ... in the midst of genocide," says artist and activist Bree Newsome Bass, who criticizes Biden for using the Black church as a political prop. The last thing that we need is to carry on business as usual." In 2015, Newsome Bass climbed a 30-foot flagpole outside the South Carolina Capitol to remove the Confederate flag following the church massacre.

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