United States President Joe Biden on Friday condemned violence that Asian Americans faced since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, say...
United States President Joe Biden on Friday condemned violence that Asian Americans faced since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, saying “it is wrong, it is un-American and it must stop,” AFP reported. Biden was delivering a speech on the one-year anniversary of the pandemic.
During his term, former President Donald Trump had repeatedly used racist and xenophobic terms like “Chinese virus” to refer to the coronavirus that was first detected in China’s Wuhan province.
Biden decried the “vicious hate crimes against Asian Americans who have been attacked, harassed, blamed and scapegoated” over the pandemic. “Too often, we’ve turned against one another,” Biden said. “At this very moment, so many of them, our fellow Americans – they’re on the frontlines of this pandemic trying to save lives and still, still they’re forced to live in fear for their lives just walking down streets in America.”
Pres. Biden on surge of violent crimes against Asian Americans: "It's wrong, it's un-American, and it must stop." https://t.co/NHmIngHgtj pic.twitter.com/2m7jOvJdJa
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) March 12, 2021
Biden also lamented the deaths of American citizens who lost their lives to the pandemic, AP reported. “We all lost something, a collective suffering, a collective sacrifice,” he said. “I know it’s been hard, I truly know...I carry a card in my...
