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It Has to Stop

Floor Speech

Date: May 16, 2023
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. BOWMAN. Mr. Speaker, last Sunday, May 14, marked the 1-year anniversary of the horrific mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.

America can only move forward if we acknowledge what is killing us in droves--white supremacist extremism.

Congress needs to lead and say clearly to the country that white supremacy is an existential threat.

Last year, a man, radicalized by the great replacement theory, drove 2 hours to a Black neighborhood in Buffalo with an assault rifle and opened fire. Ten lives were lost, and we are still collectively mourning.

We are also mourning the lives of those lost in other racist attacks, including in Allen, Texas, at the hands of a neo-Nazi extremist.

These once-fringe ideologies are now being openly promoted by too many in the Republican Party, which is seeking to criminalize migrants, ban Black history curricula, take away food from children and healthcare for all, and fan the flames of a culture war.

It has to stop.

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