Biden’s speech at Gettysburg (October 6th 2020) conceived the 2020 election as a “battle for the soul of the nation”, just as the Battle of Gettysburg was in 1863 in the midst of the American Civil War.
Cher wept:
“JOE BIDEN GAVE ONE OF THE GREATEST SPEECHES IVE EVER HEARD,AT GETTYSBURG. PA . TEARS RAN DOWN MY CHEEKS. JOE BIDEN IS THE ONLY MAN I TRUST WITH THE LIVES OF MY FAMILY.”
But most people were too busy watching the Orange Clown Show that is President Trump to even notice.
Some of the best bits:
We have no need for armed militias roaming America’s streets, and we should have no tolerance for extremist white supremacy groups, menacing our communities. If you say, “We should trust America’s law enforcement authorities to do the job,” as I do, then let them do their job without extremist groups acting as vigilantes. If you say, “We have no need to face racial injustice in the country,” you haven’t opened your eyes to the truth in America.
There’ve been powerful voices for justice in recent weeks and months:
- George Floyd’s, six year old daughter, who I met with, who looked at me and said in her small child’s voice, “Daddy changed the world.”
- Also, Jacob Blake’s mother was another. When she said, “Violence didn’t reflect her son and this nation needed healing.”
- And Doc Rivers, the basketball coach, choking back tears when he said, “We’re the ones getting killed. We’re the ones getting shot. We’ve been hung. It’s amazing [inaudible 00:13:49] we keep loving this country and this country does not love us back.”
I think about that. I think about what it takes for a black person to love America. That is a deep love for this country. That has for far too long, never been recognized. What we need in America’s leadership that seeks to deescalate tensions, to open lines of communications, to bring us together, to heal, to hope. As president, that’s precisely what I will do.
We paid a high price for allowing the deep divisions in this country to impact on how we deal with the Coronavirus. 210,000 Americans dead, and the number’s climbing. It’s estimated that nearly another 210,000 Americans could lose their lives by the end of the year; enough, no more. Let’s just set partisanship aside, let’s end the politics and follow the science. […]
Every generation that’s followed Gettysburg has been faced with a moment when it must answer this question, will they allow the sacrifices made here to be in vain, or be fulfilled? This is our moment to answer this essential American question, for ourselves and for our time. And my answer is this, it cannot be that after all this country has been through, after all that America’s accomplished, after all the years, we have stood as a beacon of light to the world.
It cannot be that here and now in 2020, we will allow the government of the people, by the people, and for the people to perish this earth.
– Abagond, 2020.
Source: video (25 minutes, on YouTube), full transcript.
See also:
- The 2020 election for US president
- Donald Trump
- Joe Biden
- Biden 2020
- Lincoln
- Gettysburg Address
- Second Inaugural Speech
- Cher
- George Floyd
- Jacob Blake
- The coronavirus
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Abagond 
Thank you, I didn’t know about this!
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