‘This is our moment. This is our mission,’ Joe Biden said as he accepted the Democratic nomination for president
Joe Biden lambasted Donald Trump’s racist comments Thursday night, calling the President’s comments about white supremacists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville “a wake-up call for us as a country, and for me, a call to action.”
“At that moment, I knew I’d have to run. My father taught us, silence was complicity. I could never remain silent or complicit,” Biden said. “At the time, I said we’re in a battle for the soul of this nation — and we are.”
He recalled a conversation with the 6-year-old daughter of George Floyd the day before Floyd’s funeral.
“She looks in my eyes and she said, I quote, ‘Daddy changed the world. Daddy changed the world.’ Her words burrowed deep into my heart,” he said.
“Maybe George Floyd’s murder was a breaking point. Maybe John Lewis’s passing an inspiration,” Biden said. “America is ready, in John’s words, to lay down the heavy burden of hate at last and begin the hard work of rooting out our systemic racism.”
“In this dark moment, I believe we’re poised to make great progress at the end — that we can find the light once more,” Biden said.
