“I’m saying this wherever I go,” the president told the university’s graduating class.
President Joe Biden speaks at Howard University's commencement in Washington, Saturday, May 13, 2023. | Patrick Semansky/AP PhotoPresident Joe Biden denounced white supremacy as the “most dangerous terrorist threat” to the nation in his commencement address to Howard University’s graduating class Saturday.
Addressing the 2023 graduates of the university at the Capital One Arena in D.C., Biden depicted the U.S. as a nation roiled by internal conflict and alluded to core messages of both his 2020 and 2024 campaign platforms. “Fearless progress toward justice often means ferocious pushback from the oldest and most sinister of forces,” Biden said. “That’s because hate never goes away. … It only hides under the rocks. And when it’s given oxygen it comes out from under that rock. And that’s why we know this truth as well: silence is complicity. We cannot remain silent.”
Still, in an apparent reference to former President Donald Trump, Biden acknowledged that the path toward that future is by no means easy.
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