USA 2020 Elections: Thread

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> hypocrisy

https://www.theepochtimes.com/graham-elections-of-obama-harris-are-proof-that-our-systems-are-not-racist_3790919.html
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6250345942001?playlist_id=930909788001

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-26/texas-gains-house-seats-while-new-york-loses-in-census-count
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-26/biden-to-order-creation-of-pro-union-task-force-headed-by-harris

Graham: Elections Of Obama, Harris Are Proof That "Our Systems Are Not Racist"

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday pushed back against President
Joe Biden’s remarks that “systemic racism” exists in the United
States, saying that the elections of former President Barack Obama and
Vice President Kamala Harris prove otherwise.

Graham’s comments came in response to remarks made by the president on
April 20 following the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer
Derek Chauvin in the May 2020 death of George Floyd, who died in
police custody.

Biden at the time called systemic racism “a stain on our nation’s
soul—the knee on the neck of justice for black Americans—profound fear
and trauma, the pain, the exhaustion that black and brown Americans
experience every single day.”

Graham cited the elections of Obama, who is African American and was
in office from January 2009 to January 2017, and Harris, who is South
Asian and Black.

    “Not in my opinion. We just elected a two-term African-American
president. The vice president is of African-American-Indian descent.
So our systems are not racist. America is not a racist country,”
Graham responded during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.”

    “So this attack on police and policing—reform the police … You
know, America is a work in progress but [it’s the] best place on the
planet and Joe Biden spent a lot of time running the place down. I
wish he would stop it,” he told host Chris Wallace.

Chauvin, 45, who was found guilty by jurors of second-degree murder,
second-degree manslaughter, and third-degree murder in Floyd’s death,
is one of society’s “bad actors,” Graham suggested.

Floyd, 46, was restrained on the ground after resisting being placed
into a patrol car when he was arrested for allegedly using a
counterfeit $20 at a nearby store. Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck and
back to restrain him for over nine minutes. By the time an ambulance
arrived, Floyd had stopped breathing.

Chauvin faces the prospect of 40 years in prison. Under Minnesota law,
criminals only face jail time on their most serious crime if all
charges are from a single act.

    “The Chauvin trial was a just result. What’s happening in Ohio
where the police officer had to use deadly force to prevent a young
girl from being stabbed to death is a different situation, in my
view,” Graham said.

The Republican senator was referring to the fatal officer-involved
shooting of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant in Ohio last week. Bryant of
Columbus was seen on body camera footage being shot by an officer
after she lunged at another young woman while holding a knife.

In a subsequent Fox News interview on Sunday, Rep. Karen Bass
(D-Calif.), the former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus,
opposed Graham’s remarks.

“My response is, at some point in our country’s history, we have got
to figure out a way to talk about race where we can talk about it
objectively and people don’t feel individual guilt,” Bass said.

She added, “You can look at each of our institutions. Why is there
such massive inequality when it comes to education, when it comes to
health care? Why does that exist? And so we have to figure out a way
to talk about it. Right now, to say it doesn’t exist does not help
anyone.”