President Biden, GOP's Tim Scott Offer Diverging Views Of Race In America
Biden talked about "the knee of injustice on the neck of Black Americans," while Scott declared "America is not a racist country." But there was some overlap on policing issues.
President Biden's first address to a joint session of Congress Wednesday and the official Republican response that followed offered two contrasting perspectives on race in America.
Biden's remarks, on the eve of his 100th day in office, came during a renewed moment of reckoning over race and justice after a former Minneapolis police officer was convicted in the murder of George Floyd, and as subsequent fatal shootings by law enforcement gripped the nation. The president issued an urgent call for action, declaring that "we have all seen the knee of injustice on the neck of Black Americans."
He called on the country to
