President Joe Biden will host a cultural summit at the White House next month to address the rise of violence and extremism in the United States and lay out a vision “for a more united America,” officials said Friday.
The United We Stand Summit, which is scheduled for Sept. 15, seeks to “counter the corrosive effects of hate-fueled violence on our democracy and public safety,” the White House said in a statement.
National civil rights advocates have been urging Biden to hold such an event since he took office 19 months ago.
Campaign promise:
I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide, but to unify.
Who doesn’t see red and blue states, but a United States.
And who will work with all my heart to win the confidence of the whole people.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 23, 2020
Following a recent spate of hate-motivated crimes — which included the mass shooting deaths of 19 children at an elementary school in Texas — the president is recommitted to delivering on one of his biggest campaign pledges, to “heal the soul of the nation.”
The summit will follow other deadly mass shooting attacks in recent months — at a July 4 parade near Chicago and a hate-motivated attack at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y.
“As President Biden said in Buffalo after the horrific mass shooting earlier this year, in the battle for the should of our nation ‘we must enlist in this great cause of America,'” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
“The United We Stand Summit will present an important opportunity for Americans of all races, religions, regions, political affiliations, and walks of life to take up that cause together.”
A variety of groups have been invited to the event to highlight cultural unity. National civil rights and religious leaders, members of the law enforcement community, anti-gun violence advocates and even former members of extremist groups will also attend when Biden delivers a keynote address.
A detailed list of attendees and speakers will be released at a later time.
Administration officials say the event is an opportunity for Democrats and Republicans to unite on an issue that Biden sees as critical to the future of the country.
“Our nation has endured a disturbing series of hate-fueled attacks,” Jean-Pierre added, condemning other recent violence in Oak Creek, Wis., Pittsburgh, El Paso Poway, Calif., and Atlanta.
Jean-Pierre noted Biden´s executive and legislative successes concerning hate crimes, such as the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, the first-ever National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism and the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act — which is considered the most significant gun safety legislation in more than three decades.
The president´s planned summit will follow other recent developments in high-profile cases. This month, three Georgia men who were involved in the killing of Amaud Arbery in 2020 were convicted on federal hate crimes charges. Two were given life sentences and the other 35 years in prison. That´s in addition to their life sentences at the state level.
The White House on Friday also noted the recent five-year anniversary of the hate-motivated killing at the infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 — an event that Biden said ultimately persuaded him to run for president.
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Ex-Senator Biden (although at times he still thinks and says he is a Senator} needs to read his Senator Barry Goldwater Quotes:
“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
Justice too long delayed is justice denied.” Let all American political crime families receive the Justice they have dodged and been denied, and make January 6th a national holiday, and Ashley Babbitt the white equivalent of the black Rosa Parks.
THERE IS NO Unifying, with what the left is shoving.
Rosa Parks Refused to go to the back of the bus and for that act HER BODY was placed in the Capitol rotunda, Booker T. Washington Once Said, ” There’s a certain Class of Negro…”
To fully advance the Lying, Treasonous, Demonic, Socialist Democrat Party’s destructive beliefs and agendas is to divide our citizens with hate and promote – racism, open borders, radical feminism, abortion-on-demand, the LGBTQ lifestyle, unfettered sexual identity, transgender, same sex marriage, child indoctrination into sexual confusion and perversions, the pagan Liberal left Democrats must do away with GOD, our Constitution, common sense, morality, Christian values and free religious exercise altogether.
Under the Disguise of “anti-discrimination.”
It’s not going to be unify America. It’s going to be unify democrats against white people. He will probably only talk about racism against poc , not against white or religious or Conservative people.
He should begin by looking into the Democrat Party, many of its highly placed operatives condoned the violence of 2020 to the point of setting up funds to pay fines and bail, others have labeled persons expressing their Constitutional right of free speech and expression as extremists to the point of having the FBI consider them terrorists. The backing of BLM and ANTIFA says quite a bit about where the summit should focus its study and will be the places to be overlooked!
AND Many said “Get out there, and make lives a living hell, for conservatives. SO THEY FLAT OUT INCITED a lot of it.
And it Starts right here In the White. The FAKE and PARASITED Administration and Joe (China) Biden. Pretending President is One of the BIGGEST hater of Whites and Latinos. Biden has been a BIGOT from the Time he entered Congress over 50 + Year’s Ago.
chairman mao biden does not even know what day it is much less holding a peace conference to vilify and destroy american conservatives.
mostly white christians.
This will be a thinly veiled attack on conservatives, Republicans, white people, Christians and anyone the radical left hates.
Who wrote Biden’s tweet? A kindergartner? So tired of hearing about “hate” crimes. All crime is caused by hate and envy. A “summit” led by Sleepy Joe Biden? What a joke. It’s called a circus. It’s too late for unity. Biden became the “Hater-in-Chief” on day one and continues his campaign of hate. This is a real Communist regime that changes our language and words to try to say the opposite of reality. The haters are wanting unity. What a lie. No Republican should participate in this sham. It’s 1984!
AND when the left gets to DEFINE What is and isn’t a hate crime, you can bet ONLY WHITES get blamed.
According to those on the extreme left it is the white people that are causing all the problems so in the eyes of the DEMONcrats the white people need to be gotten rid of and there are those that have even said as much, look at some of the things that al shapton have said about killing off all the white honky crackers, and yes he actually said that around 8 years ago and then again not more than 2 years ago.
Yea, it seems to many, that the extreme left, WANTS TO eradicate the white race.. AND some of them even LAUGH about it.
Slo Joe and his “people” are simply delusional, without proper brains. This summit will accomplish NOTHING positive and will be one more drain for the gubment purse. This is the worst president (doesn’t deserve a capital p) in my memory.
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Don’t listen to the American people. Finance a Study and Summit Circus to figure out what they are complaining about. There’s no need to do anything serious since this administration knows full well what they are doing.
America crashing isn’t a crises, it’s a feature of their terms of doing lucrative personal business with China, Russia, Islam Inc., etc..
Jean-Pierre noted Biden´s executive and legislative successes concerning hate crimes, such as the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, the first-ever National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism and the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act — which is considered the most significant gun safety legislation in more than three decades.
Interesting how they leave out the BLM/Antifa riots and street take overs.
This whole summit stuff that the biden is putting is in most part going to center up on the gun violence in the country, the biden and those in the SATAN WORSHIPPING DEMONCRAT PARTY think to this day that guns get up walk around and shoot people by themselves. The swamp monster biden himself all but said that. If you notice the DEMONcrats never blame the person they always blame the tool, even the so called media never blames the person they always blame the gun as if the gun has some sort of power to make people do bad things. No this summit is not going to be about unity looking at the ones that are going to be there it is going to be about racism and guns.
there’s days i honestly would LOVE TO SEE guns animate themselves, to go ‘shoot’ someone. JUST TO LAUGH at the leftists response if it ever HAPPENED..
Right! The democrats have to look “good” every once and a great while!!!! After they’ve done the damage with still more to come from them!
Joe needs to check with the puppet master before doing anything, if he doesn’t, NO ice cream for joe.
ITUSER , When there are People in the House , Senate and the White House Push this Narrative beyond PURE Hatred. Starting with Biden , Harris , Pelosi , Schumer , Schiff , Water’s and the rest of the Parasites in Joe (China) Biden FAKE Administration. And not Leaving out the Rino’s , Clowns and Parasites in the House and Senate of DemoRats.