it s a poison. [ applause ] running through our it really is. running through our body politic. it s been allowed to fester and grow right in front of our eyes. no more. i mean, no more. we need to say as clearly and forcefully as we can that the ideology of white supremacy has no place in america. [ applause ] none. look, failure in saying that is going to complicity, silence is complicity. it s complicity. we cannot remain silent. i call all americans to reject the lie, and i condemn those who spread the lie for power, political gain, and for profit. [ applause ] president joe biden s clear eyed denunciation there of white supremacy as a poison marks a return to an issue that animated and inspired his run for the presidency, what he described at the time as a battle for the soul of america. but now the new york times reports, quote, the challenge for a president who came to office preaching unity may be how to take on those preaching hate, and in the wake of the mas
whac-a-mole is hard, okay, because this isn t whac-a-mole. because in the game of whac-a-mole, the mole doesn t jump out and shoot black americans in grocery stores, okay? it s more serious than that. they need to be fully focused on this or they need to suffer the consequences, and i do think there is a role for congress here and that pressure needs to be on the companies to take that. erroll, what is your sort of if you had to create the architecture of social media at the table doing reforms sort of from least likely to most likely, what would you put those specific reforms out there to ask them to do? well, the first thing, nicolle, is we have the technology and we have the talent, and so there s a way to put guardrails up and constraints on these platforms and rein them in. i worked on the board for life after hate for many years, and as you probably know, they re a group of former extremists, largely right wing extremists who try to rein in people who want to get out of the