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TomCADem

(17,380 posts)
Tue Sep 29, 2020, 11:33 PM Sep 2020

Biden to Trump: 'All these dog whistles and racism don't work anymore'

Source: MSN

President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden hit each other Tuesday night on the issue of race, with Biden saying Trump had been "disastrous" for the country's Black communities and Trump responding by evoking the 1994 crime bill that Biden helped draft while he was in the Senate.

"This is not 1950. All these dog whistles on racism don't work anymore." Biden said to Trump. "There's systemic injustice in this country, in education, in work and law enforcement,"

The former vice president added that most law enforcement officers are "good, decent [and] honorable," but that the country's justice system has been soured by numerous "bad apples."

The summer saw nationwide protests demanding the end of police brutality and systemic racism following the police killings of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman, and George Floyd, a Black man.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-to-trump-all-these-dog-whistles-and-racism-don-t-work-anymore/ar-BB19ybIa?ocid=Peregrine

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Biden to Trump: 'All these dog whistles and racism don't work anymore' (Original Post) TomCADem Sep 2020 OP
Let's hope. Hoyt Sep 2020 #1
K&R bluewater Sep 2020 #2
Regrettably they do. Arthur_Frain Sep 2020 #3

Arthur_Frain

(1,836 posts)
3. Regrettably they do.
Wed Sep 30, 2020, 10:46 AM
Sep 2020

The right is trying to manifest a war between antifa and the proud boys. They’re hoping to generate enough fear to keep their candidate viable. They will be successful, but to what extent is the question? The question to ask right after that will be to wonder where law enforcement will throw in with.

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