Elizabeth Warren boldly endorses Black Lives Matter in speech about racial inequality
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren gave a speech on Sunday concerning racial inequality and called for broad policing reform.
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren gave a speech on Sunday concerning racial inequality and called for broad policing reform.
“None of us can ignore what is happening in this country. Not when our black friends, family, neighbors literally fear dying in the streets,” Warren said. “This is the reality all of us must confront, as uncomfortable and ugly as that reality may be. It comes to us to once again affirm that black lives matter, that black citizens matter, that black families matter.”
She went on to compare the current Black Lives Matter movement to the civil rights movement in the 1960s and further criticized restrictions such as housing inequality and voting restrictions.
“Economic justice is not — and has never been — sufficient to ensure racial justice. Owning a home won’t stop someone from burning a cross on the front lawn. Admission to a school won’t prevent a beating on the sidewalk outside,” Warren said. “The tools of oppression were woven together, and the civil rights struggle was fought against that oppression wherever it was found — against violence, against the denial of voting rights and against economic injustice.”
The Black Lives Matter movement was quick to celebrate the speech.
“Senator Warren’s speech clearly and powerfully calls into question America’s commitment to black lives by highlighting the role that structural racism has played and continues to play with regard to housing discrimination and voting rights,” said DeRay Mckesson, a prominent activist. “And Warren, better than any political leader I’ve yet heard, understands the protests as a matter of life or death — that the American dream has been sustained by an intentional violence and that the uprisings have been the result of years of lived trauma.”
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