Racism by any other name is still racism.
President Joe Biden addressed the nation on April 20th following the announcement of the jury’s guilty verdicts against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for murder and manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd. Instead of focusing on America’s virtues as a country based on the rule of law, Biden played the spurious “systemic racism” card. Instead of focusing on America’s progress in becoming a more just and inclusive society, Biden said that Floyd’s death had “ripped the blinders off for the whole world to see the systemic racism in the United States.” He added that this “systemic racism” is a “stain on our nation’s soul.”
