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‘Hate Just Hides. It Doesn’t Go Away,’ Biden Says
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. visited Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Wilmington, Del., where parishioners shared their anguish over racism and police brutality.
The Band-Aid has been ripped off by this pandemic and this president. Nobody can pretend any longer what this is all about. Nobody can pretend who has been carrying this on their back. It’s been minorities. Hate just hides. It doesn’t go away. And when you have somebody in power who breathes oxygen to the hate under the rocks, it comes out from under the rocks. It matters what the president says. The bad news about democracy — the good news — is that it requires consensus. You’ve got to get people to agree on how to move forward.
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