Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday reacted to Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott’s response to President Biden’s Wednesday address before Congress.
Scott reflected on the idea of a unified nation amid party disagreements and racism in America in his speech, saying that while he gets “called ‘Uncle Tom’ and the N-word — by ‘progressives'” — he believes “America is not a racist country.”
Harris agreed with Scott in a Wednesday interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” in response to a question about the senator’s follow-up remarks.
“I don’t think America is a racist country, but we also do have to speak truth about the history of racism in our country and its existence today,” the vice president said.
She added that she applauds the president “for always having the ability and the courage … to speak the truth about [racism in America].”
“One of the greatest threats to our national security is domestic terrorism manifested by white supremacists, and so these are issues we must confront,” she said. “It does not help to heal our country — to unify us as a people — to ignore the realities of that, and I think the president has been outstanding and a real national leader on the issue of saying let’s confront the realities…knowing we all have so much more in common than what separates us.
Harris added that she and Biden want to “unify the country” but not without “speaking truth and requiring accountability as appropriate.”
White supremacy is not the problem, but those who push it on us as the problem are.
Being against Marxism does not equate to being a white supremacist but this is how marxists and their media allies frame the discourse.