'Hate only hides. It doesn't go away. If you give it oxygen it comes out from under the rocks.' Former VP Joe Biden delivered an impassioned speech to commemorate the 56th anniversary of the bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
"Hate is on the rise again, and we're at a defining moment again in American history," said Biden, who served as vice president to the United States' first black President Barack Obama."Hate only hides. It doesn't go away. If you give it oxygen it comes out from under the rocks.
"Biden gets emotionalIn an emotional moment, Biden talked about the experience of losing a young child, later recounting the deaths of his wife and daughter in a car accident and his son Beau's passing from cancer."When you lose a child so young as many of us have experienced in different circumstances, the loss is always punctuated by questions no matter how much time passes.
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