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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Nels Abbey

It’s easy to see white supremacy as the thinking of extremists. We know that’s not true

Joe Biden delivers the 2023 Howard University commencement address on 13 May in Washington DC.
Joe Biden delivers the 2023 Howard University commencement address on 13 May in Washington DC. Photograph: Kyle Mazza/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

During Joe Biden’s recent address to Howard University, a historically Black higher learning institution, he offered a forthright perspective on white supremacy. “On the best days, enough of us have the guts and the hearts to stand up for the best in us. To choose love over hate, unity over disunion, progress over retreat. To stand up against the poison of white supremacy, as I did in my inaugural address – to single it out as the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland.”

Biden is stating what has long been established as fact in the United States, that extremist white supremacist groups are the foremost domestic terror threat. On this basis, his calling out and condemnation of white supremacy is welcome, authoritative and well intended.

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