'I will not participate in a conversation that simplifies this issue without recognizing one - the history, speaking the truth about it and recognizing it happened before [Trump] was in the White
While on the campaign trail in Iowa, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris had some strong words when asked if President Donald Trump is a white supremacist.
"I will not participate in a conversation that simplifies this issue without recognizing one - the history, speaking the truth about it and recognizing it happened before [Trump] was in the White House and it will continue after this guy in the White House," Harris added. This week, as Americans experienced the fallout of mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, Trump also generated ire for pointing blame at violent video games, movies and mental illness, but failing to blame alleged El Paso shooter Patrick Crusius. Authorities have said that Crusius posted a manifesto online just before the shooting and that the document contains some of the same rhetoric Trump has used in relation to immigrants.
"But if we're gonna have this conversation, let's have it in a meaningful way, because when we have seen everything from what happened in Poway [California], to the Tree of Life synagogue, to Charlottesville, to what happened in El Paso — we should all be having a conversation, and partly looking in the mirror to say 'where have we been on this and what are we prepared to do?'," she said.
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