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starting, we re joined by president of the historic black college and university who will be able to focus on providing the best experience possible for those students. but instead, they re having to worry about more bomb threats against their institutions. too often native americans, disabled americans face harassment, discrimination, and violence and victimization. unfortunately, such hate-fueled violence and threats are not new to america. there s a through line of hate for massacres of indigenous people to the original sin of slavery, the terror of the klan, immigration, violence against the irish, italians, chinese, mexicans, so many of those related to our history. there s a through line of violence against religious groups, anti-semitic, anti-catholic, anti-mormon,
starting, we re joined by the president of a historic black college and should pro-just on presenting the best possible for their students but instead worry about more bomb threats against their institutions. too often native americans, disabled americans face harassment, discrimination and violence and victimization. unfortunately, such hate fueled violence and threats are not new to america. there s a true line of hate from massacres of indigenous people to the original sin of slavery, the terror of the klan to anti-immigration, violence against the irish, italian, chinese, mexican, so many of those laced through our history. there s a through line of violence against religious group, anti-semanti-semitic,
out and carrying torches nazi flags and banners, chanting the vile and accompanied by white supremacists, david dukes and and an innocent young woman is killed. when the last guy was asked, what do you think, he said he thought there was some fine people on both sides. look, folks, there are core values that should bring us together as americans. one of them is standing together against hate, racism, bigotry and violence. long haunted and plagued our nation. another core value is standing
this, hate fueled violence is borne into the fertile soil of a toxic division and we won t solve the problem by going after the extreme fringes alone. we have to confront the ways in which our toxic division fuel the crisis for all of us. our differences. certainly don t turn a fellow american into a sworn enemy. building bridges across divides doesn t mean we re sacrificing our own beliefs and our core values. to be a nation of hope and unity and optimism we have to recognize we re not helpless in the face of hate. and fuel violence. we re far more united than divided but we have to focus on it, the vast majority of americans are overwhelmingly united against such violence. the vast majority of us believe in honesty, decency and respect for others. patriotism, liberty, justice for all, hope and possibilities. i know we can do this together. i really mean it.