President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris offered a rallying cry to Black voters during a Juneteenth celebration at the White House, listing their administration’s achievements and urging supporters to fight efforts to roll back those gains.
“The past few years our freedoms have been put at risk by racism that’s still too powerful for us,” said Biden following a concert on the South Lawn. “Choose love over hate, union over disunion, progress over retreat. Choose to remember history, not erase it, to read books not ban them.”
Harris, the first Black and female vice president, took veiled swipes at tougher voting restrictions enacted following the 2020 presidential election as well as efforts to restrict the teaching of critical race theory.
