Joe Biden is scheduled to deliver a speech on hate-motivated violence in the United States at a White House conference Thursday, a way for the president to once again denounce political extremism in the United States.
The United We Stand conference is designed to highlight “the devastating impact of hate-motivated violence on our democracy and public safety,” according to a White House statement.
The American executive is citing the killings in Charleston in 2015 (nine African Americans killed in a church), El Paso in 2019 (23 dead, most of them Hispanic), and Buffalo, where ten African Americans were killed. were killed by a white man in mid-May as an example of “hateful attacks” threatening the country.
This conference comes just eight weeks before the general election and two weeks after the President delivered a landmark speech in Philadelphia.
On September 1, in a rare direct attack on his predecessor, Joe Biden denounced the “extremism” of Donald Trump and his supporters and accused them of shaking the “foundations” of American democracy.
Thursday’s conference will welcome elected Republicans and Democrats and will not be political, a White House official assured the press. It must “show that we can unite across partisan divisions,” he added.
Civil rights activists, religious leaders, academics and elected officials are expected at the White House on Thursday.
In his speech, Joe Biden must emphasize “the fact that the vast majority of Americans are prepared to reject hate-motivated violence,” the White House said.