Cory Booker Speaks About White Supremacy and Gun Violence in Charleston

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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey delivered perhaps the most important speech of his presidential campaign on Wednesday morning, speaking at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, where he hoped to rally Americans against gun violence and the rise of violent white supremacy.

Mr. Booker, who is one of the two leading black Democrats running for president, has been among the forceful voices calling for a national reckoning on racist mass killings since last weekend’s massacre in El Paso, Texas, where a white supremacist gunman murdered 22 people in an attack that targeted Hispanics.

Like a number of other leading 2020 hopefuls, Mr. Booker has described President Trump as bearing responsibility for a national crisis, citing Mr. Trump’s practice of deliberately worsening racial divisions and demonizing immigrants and other minorities. Mr. Trump, he said last weekend, had been “sowing the seeds of hatred.”

In Charleston, Mr. Booker called for legislative action to restrict the sale of certain firearms, and for federal security agencies to take an aggressive approach to investigating white nationalism and hate crimes.

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