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Biden on Racism: Whites 'Can Never Fully Understand'

Associated Press

   BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA - Visiting a black church bombed by the Ku Klux
   Klan in the civil rights era, Democratic presidential candidate Joe
   Biden said Sunday the country hasn't "relegated racism and white
   supremacy to the pages of history" as he framed current tensions in the
   context of the movement's historic struggle for equality.

   He spoke to parishioners at 16th Street Baptist Church in downtown
   Birmingham as they commemorated the 56th anniversary of the bombing
   that killed four black girls in 1963. "It's in the wake of these
   before-and-after moments when the choice between good and evil is
   starkest," he said.

   The former vice president called out the names of the victims -- Addie
   Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley. He
   drew nods of affirmation as he warned that "the same poisonous ideology
   that lit the fuse on 16th street" has yielded more recent tragedies
   including in 2015 at a black church in South Carolina, in 2018 at a
   Jewish synagogue in Pittsburgh and in August at an El Paso, Texas ,
   Wal-Mart frequented by Latino immigrants.
   

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