BTS visit White House to discuss anti-Asian hate crime – video

BTS visited the White House to discuss hate crimes targeting Asians with the US president.

The band members J-Hope, RM, Suga, Jungkook, V, Jin and Jimin joined the White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, at her briefing with reporters before their meeting with Joe Biden.

Jimin said the group had been 'devastated by the recent surge' of hate crime and intolerance against Asian Americans and others that has persisted since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

'It's not wrong to be different,' Suga said through an interpreter. 'Equality begins when we open up and embrace all of our differences'

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