'This is our crossroads.' Speaking at Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, Sen. Cory Booker calls for extensive action on gun reform and a conversation about combatting white supremacy.
2020 presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker stood at the center of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, Wednesday morning and delivered a powerful speech focused on the rise of white supremacy in America, following this weekend's deadly mass shootings in Texas and Ohio that left 31 people dead.
The New Jersey senator has been extremely vocal on racism following the weekend shootings. On Monday, he tweeted that President Donald Trump is"weak" and"wrong" adding that,"White supremacy is not a mental illness, and guns are a tool that white supremacists use to fulfill their hate."White supremacy is not a mental illness, and guns are a tool that white supremacists use to fulfill their hate.
"It was planted in fertile soil because the contradictions that have shadowed this country since its founding remain a part of our body politic," Booker continued. He added,"It was sewed from the highest office in our land, where we see in tweets and rhetoric, hateful words that ultimately endanger the lives of people in our country."
"If the answer to the question, 'Do racism and white supremacy exists' is yes, then the real question isn't who is or isn't a racist, but who is or isn't doing something about it," he said. "We know that these are not problems that will just go away," Booker said."Inevitably, this is a hard and painful and difficult work. It will take sacrifice and struggle."
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