Vice President Kamala Harris agreed with Sen. Tim Scott that \
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The vice president's comments were in response to Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who gave the
Republican Party's rebuttal to
President Joe Biden's speech to Congress on Wednesday.
Biden noted that global terror networks had largely moved beyond Afghanistan and white supremacists posed a bigger threat than foreign actors.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden identified white supremacy as a domestic terror threat that the country must remain vigilant against in his first joint address to Congress on Wednesday.
In discussing his order to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan, Biden noted global terror networks have largely moved beyond the country and that white supremacists posed a bigger threat than foreign actors.
"We won't ignore what our intelligence agencies have determined to be the most lethal terrorist threat to our homeland today: White supremacy is terrorism,” Biden cautioned
So as for the first link, this was Tim Scott's statement:
"A hundred years ago, kids in classrooms were taught the color of their skin was their most important characteristic.
And if they looked a certain way, they were inferior. Today, kids again are being taught that the color of their skin defines them, and if they look a certain way, they’re an oppressor," Scott said in his speech
"It’s backward to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination," the senator continued.
And Kamala's response, again, in the first link:
"Well, first of all, no, I don't think America is a racist country, but we also do have to speak the truth about the history of racism in our country and its existence today," Harris said while praising Biden's comments on race and domestic terrorism in his first joint address to Congress on Wednesday.
"He spoke what we know from the intelligence community:
One of the greatest threats to our national security is domestic terrorism manifested by white supremacists," Harris said,
referencing reports from federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies identifying
white supremacists as a persistent and rising terror threat.
"And so these are issues that we must confront, and it does not help to heal our country, to unify us as a people, to ignore the realities of that," the vice president said. "The idea is that we want to unify the country but not without speaking truth and requiring accountability where it is appropriate," she urged.