Biden Calls White Supremacy 'Poison,' Georgia Senate Candidate Gary Chambers Agrees

In an emotional speech, Joe Biden called the Buffalo shooting an act of domestic terrorism and condemned the racist ideology of the 18-year-old shooter - a self-described white supremacist.

"White supremacy is a poison, it's a poison ... running through our body politic," Biden said, adding that silence is "complicity."

"And it's been allowed to grow and fester right before our eyes. No more, no more. We need to say as clearly and as forcefully as we can that the ideology of White supremacy has no place in America. None."

Of the 13 people gunned down, 11 were Black and two were white.  

Biden is also calling on Congress to take to “keep weapons of war off our streets and keep guns out of the hands of criminals and people who have a serious mental illness that makes them a danger to themselves or others,” said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre earlier. 

Hate Crime

"In America, evil will not win, I promise you. Hate will not prevail. White supremacy will not have the last word. The evil did come to Buffalo and it's come to all too many places, manifested in gunmen who massacred innocent people in the name of hateful and perverse ideology, rooted in fear and racism. It's taken so much," Biden said at the close of his and the First Lady's visit to Buffalo. 

Gary Chambers, a US Senate candidate from Georgia who famously tweeted a political ad of himself smoking a joint in a message to destigmatize cannabis, agreed that the Buffalo massacre was a racist hate crime. 

On this occasion Chambers lit a confederate flag on fire instead of a joint.

“Today is just another reminder that we need to burn racism from the fabric of this nation. The killer in Buffalo is the latest example of how far we have to go,” Chambers said on the day of the shooting, May 14.

“The families of the victims of this crime deserve better from this nation. The sad part is gun violence in this country is too normal, & so is racism & bigotry. We have a whole new generation of white supremacists roaming this nation. We are in extremely troubling times.”

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