President Biden denounces attacks against Asian Americans
During his first primetime address to the nation, President Joe Biden denounced violent attacks against Asian Americans during the coronavirus pandemic as un-American, calling on the attacks to end immediately.
Discussing how the pandemic had served to divide and antagonize Americans on a range of issues, Biden called out "vicious hate crimes against Asian Americans who've been attacked, harassed, blamed and scapegoated."
"At this very moment, so many of them, our fellow Americans, are on the frontlines of this pandemic trying to save lives," Biden said of Asian Americans who have worked in front-line jobs during the pandemic. "And still, still they are forced to live in fear for their lives just walking down streets in America. It's wrong, it's un-American and it must stop," Biden declared in his condemnation of the attacks.
The president's comments, in sharp contrast to the inflammatory and often xenophobic remarks of his predecessor, come after weeks of outcry from the Asian American community.
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