PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Democratic presidential prospect Joe Biden on Tuesday blasted President Donald Trump’s action to U.S. protests over racism and police misbehavior, vowing to attempt to heal the country’s racial divide and not “fan the flames of hate.”
Speaking in Philadelphia– a city rocked by in some cases violent presentations in current days– the previous vice president sought to draw a brilliant contrast in between himself and Trump, whom he will face in the Nov. 3 general election.
Biden, who served eight years as vice president under Barack Obama, the first black U.S. president, cast himself as the candidate who best comprehends the longstanding pain and sorrow in the country’s black neighborhoods.
He stated the killing of George Floyd, the African-American man who died at the hands of Minneapolis cops last week, was a “wake-up call” for the country that need to require it to deal with the stain of systemic racism.
” We can’t leave this moment thinking we can when again turn away and not do anything,” Biden stated. “We can’t.”
He accused Trump, a Republican, of turning the country into “a battlefield riven by old resentments and fresh fears.”
” Is this who we want to be?” he asked. “Is this what we wish to pass on to our children and grandch