White House press secretary Jen Psaki had an awkward exchange of views with a reporter on Wednesday after asking if President Biden “recognized his own role” in what the president described as “systemic racism” in America.
During his speech to the country Tuesday night following the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, Biden said that George Floyd’s death, which he called “murder in the full light of day”, blinds the whole world. ripped off the systemic racism in the United States. ‘
During Wednesday’s briefing, New York Post reporter Steve Nelson confronted Psaki about whether the president had contributed to ‘systemic racism’ during his decades-long Senate tenure.
“[Biden is] an architect of several federal laws in the 1980s and 90s that sent black people to jail excessively and contributed to what many people consider systemic racism, “Nelson said. Activist Cornel West said Biden was one of the key architects of mass incarceration and that “I think Biden will have to take responsibility and acknowledge the contribution he has made to mass incarceration.” To what extent does President Biden recognize his own role in systemic racism? And how does this inform its current policy positions? ‘
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‘Well,’ Psaki replied, ‘I would say one of the president’s main objectives is to address the injustice in this country, not only by his rhetoric, but also by his actions and what someone should look at. [is] his advocacy for the approval of the George Floyd Justice in Police Act, for the appointment of leaders to the Department of Justice, to address outdated policies and to ask his leadership here in the White House to address these issues in his presidency, which is currently and currently, to prioritize. today and not from thirty years ago. ‘
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Nelson followed this up by asking Psaki if Biden believes it is ‘important to accept his own guilt’ because he maintains systemic racism.
“I think I answered your question,” Psaki Nelson fired before moving on to the next reporter.