Drew Angerer/Getty Images President Joe Biden claimed during a White House movie screening this week that some white people “still want to” lynch black people.
Biden made the remarks on Thursday during a screening for “Till,” a film about Emmett Till, the 14-year-old black boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955.
“You know, folks, lynching is pure terror, enforcing the lie that not everyone belongs in America and not everyone is created equal,” Biden said. “Pure terror to systematically undermine hard-fought civil rights. Innocent men, women, children hung by a noose from trees. Bodies burned, drowned, castrated.”
“Their crimes? Trying to vote. Trying to go to school. Trying to own a business. Trying to preach the gospel. False — false accusations of murder, arson, robbery,” Biden claimed. “Lynched for simply being black, nothing more. With white crowds, white families gathered to celebrate the spectacle, taking pictures of the bodies and mailing […]
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