U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Tuesday that “racism is an American problem.”
President Joe Biden’s AG made his comments during an ABC News interview with Pierre Thomas.
AG Merrick Garland to ABC News: "Racism is an American problem. It's plain to me that there has been and remains discrimination against African-Americans. We do not yet have equal justice under law."
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 20, 2021
AG Garland Refuses To Comment On Chauvin Trial
While he wouldn’t reference the ongoing Derek Chauvin trial when asked, Garland did say, “I intend to wait until the verdict before I will say anything, and I would urge the American people to do the same.”
Garland’s answer here differs from other politicians who commented on the case before the verdict – President Joe Biden and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey among them.
When host Thomas asked Garland if he “believes there is bias and pockets of racism in law enforcement,” Garland replied, “Racism is an American problem.”
Garland added, “I think that.. umm.. it’s plain to me that there has been and remains discrimination against African-Americans and other communities of color, and other ethnic minorities.”
“I think it’s reflected in discrimination in housing and employment and the justice system. … We do not yet have equal justice under law,’ said Garland.
Garland also addressed the street violence that plagued the summer of 2020, “I also saw the videos last summer, all through the summer.”
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Garland: ‘Many Black Americans Were Not Shocked’
Garland added, “I felt that beginning last summer, at least, there was a chance to bring this to the fore of the national consciousness, to create a moment in which we could change.”
“And like many Americans, I was shocked. But many black Americans were not shocked because they have known of this kind of treatment before,” the AG continued.
“And part of the reason that I wanted to be attorney general was I wanted to help bring that change,” he added. “All of us in our family feel an obligation – public service – and try to protect other people the way the country protected us.”
& DEMs wanted Garland for Supreme Court? He is Biden's AG Merrick Garland holds back tears as he says 'racism is an American problem' and we 'don't have equal justice' before calling for calm ahead of Chauvin verdict pic.twitter.com/7ZwaboIErU
— Blanche Victoria (@tammytabby) April 20, 2021
Garland said that in his role as Attorney General he would have the “opportunity to do some very important things. I have the opportunity now to lead a Justice Department in pursuit of civil rights.”
“I have a chance to lead a Justice Department in pursuit of the rule of law and ensuring the independence of the department, and its independence — particularly — from any kind of partisan influence in the way we bring investigations or prosecutions,” Garland finished.
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And this bozo could of been a Supreme Court Justice, thank you mitch
Then Merrick Garland is a fool with no sense of America or Americans!
Bozo the clown is a e of a well know entertainer in Chicago why is this not free speech
Bozo is a clown not a comment to be censored
Guy is truly a partisan hack for the Democrats and is using his position to go after all things conservative. no wonder why mitch didn't even give him a hearing for the Supreme court. he had no shot of passing the senate. He's a dope about white people and just playing politics for the looney base of the dem party. they are the problem.
Mr. Attorney General,@merrickgarland YOU are soooo off the guard! "Racism is an American Problem". Where have you got your education? I am an 80 year old German native; Anti-Semitism was one of the ugliest time of our country and, sadly, anti-semitism is growing again in Europe. America is the most generous and welcoming country in the entire world. Maybe you need to read up on history, history of the world, before you utter such nonsense. Black people in America are the luckiest, safest citizens. I see nothing but black wealthy people in all part of the industry, the government, businesses, entertainment, sports. What an idiot you make of yourself with such a statement. I guess you and Joe Biden are a great match.@wap,@cnn,@cnninternational,@oann,@foxnews
The democrats created the race problem and now they pontificate? It was the southern democrats that demanded their rights to own other people, one Senator from Georgia in 1850 claimed, "We can not be free unless we own slaves." A democrat. To that end they began the war of Insurrection in fear Lincoln's administration would impact on their rights, to own slaves. They lost the war and their Armies surrendered. But that did not stop the Democrats encouraging the White League, KKK, Gun and Sabre Clubs that were often rebel veterans and democrats. They murdered and lynched hundreds of freedmen to prevent them from voting and Jim crow also their invention. Such is the nature of secret societies very much a Democrat party trait, like omerta.
And the Democrats have not changed at all, they still foment racism white against black or black against white offering incentives like reparations up to 14 trillion proposed by one Billionaire and even more by others. The Democrats wanted reparations from the Union for the war they started seizing arsenals and shipyards and firing on Fort Sumter. Now they want reparations for racism? They created it. The censors won't let me write what they should go do. General Milley, this is an instance of "white" rage and he doesn't or hasn't caught on to what a racist thought that he had.
I couldn't agree with you more! I am appalled to hear Joe Biden's pick of an attorney general, @garland, and his ignorant, stupid statement!!!!!
Thank God this idiot was no appointed to Supreme Court! McConnell really did us all a favor.
What a bullet we dodged when this pansy fool was denied a hearing for selection to the SCOTUS. For once, McTurtle came through.
Merrick Garland is a modern Bolshevik whose grandparents immigrated from Russia with their Marxist agenda. His Jewish cabal invented “racism”.
It is a world wide problem. Just because some placers pass laws to make it illegal to be racist doesn't mean that every one is suddenly going to be angles. Car theft is illegal also, but a lot of cars are stolen each and every day.
The Dem/Communists are race baiters and don't care about African Americans or anyone of color unless they can use them. The are the dividers of our country. The only way things are going to change is when the people of color want things to change and do something about it.
The single biggest problem with racism in the U.S., today, is Leftist ideology. The Leftists push division, based on race(think 'CRT') in everything. They try to find racism everywhere, even when it's not really there. Think about pancake syrup, butter, names of birds and there are many more examples. The next biggest problem is that there are people who actually believe them…or will pretend to, depending how much money they can make off the deal. Small people with even smaller minds and zero intelligence 'feed' off of this ideology that is pushed…mostly to get something they want. I wonder how it feels to be so weak and fragile that you let yourself get taken in by this type of ideology and have to rely on this to 'justify' your own actions or perceptions about life, in general…and why you fail to get anywhere. It is always easier to try and blame someone else for your own shortcomings, rather than working on those.
For me it proves the democrats in DC are the real raciss. America was at one ime prejudice of certain ethnic groups, but that was before WWII. After the war those prejudices all but vanished. We came together as one country period.
Today the D party is the one screaming RACISM! WHY?? The only answer is to divide the Americans. And the CRT is their crowning glory. To make races hate one another and esp make the whites feel guilty and again WHY?? What is their real motive? And how can we stop it?
Thank God we dodged a bullet when The frontal lobotomy Garland was told to kick rocks and denied the Supeme Court vacancy. A total loser
I think some people need to ask, where did we get black slaves from? African tribes sold Africans to the slave traders. The white Irish were the first slaves and were treated far worse that black slaves because blacks cost more while the Irish were just prisoners. Americans are the only people in the world to fight a war against each other, whites against whites, to END slavery. Everyone seems to forget this part of our struggles. I'm also tired of hearing this land is stolen. The first lands were purchased, later we fought a war. That's how all countries acquire the lands they have since the beginning of time.
And yes, there is an excuse for violence, when communist are treasonous traitors to this republic its all the excuse we need.
He's a communist..
Biden is the American problem
If it weren't for the Democratic party coddling the leftist crybabies, there wouldn't be such a thing as racism in this country I After all, it was the planters in Democratic party that founded the plantation culture and brought us slavery.
a fun fact , everyone is a little bit racist, in China the extreme is evident
in the US it's not a problem , only the left are trying to divide our country
heck; ice cream is racist, bus's are racist; a hot dog is racist
GIVE ME A BREAK
How do you spell all lies, these communist never stop with racism, blacks will never be free as long as white liberals have their way.
Garland is on a revenge rampage because he didn't get a seat on the Federal Supreme Court. Now we know why. Unfortunately he now has more power than he can handle and will use it to join n the attempted destruction of the Republic.
If you get one you will be the first to get a honest and truthful answer out of any liberal democrat.
Yes, Garland and Biden and the Democrat Party ARE the PROBLEM.
Garland, Biden, Waters, Pelosi, AOC, Tlaib and the rest of the liberal democrats are morally and mentally corrupt. They are the racists. By spreading their hate and lies they are purposely creating a racial divide. Their followers are fools for not seeing the truth. Of all the blacks killed by the police, how many were not wanted, in the act of committing a crime, resisting arrest, were armed, or fleeing the scene of a crime. To say all those people were just innocent children is the democrats rallying cry, but it is nothing but a racial lie. They hate a free America so much, they are willing to tear it apart and burn it down. They refuse to punish those that have looted, burned and destroyed, throughout the U.S.. If you vote for these left wing extremists, you are responsible for this nations collapse. I pray you are not that evil.
We sure do. Let's just look at the Biden administration covid relief bill for farmers that specifically EXCLUDES WHITE APPLICANTS. Garland should start right there, as the discrimination is in black and white (no pun intended) plain for all to see.
Thank Mitch McConnell for keeping this leftist yo-yo off the SC!
Free speech is dead on this site, censorship is step prior to communism
Wasn't it LBJ who created and provided welfare incentives for women to remove men from the home, also isn't southern wh!te LBJ who created the situation of out-of-wedlock births by proxy of policy? As far as drugs well140 opioid overdoses DAILY (according to the CDC). Also blacks are over 40% of exonerations. Wh!tes make up 68% of burglaries, 66% larceny theft, 67.6 Motor Vehicle theft, 62% aggravated assault, 66 % of Offenses against the family and children. Then you have the sui!cides which is mainly wh!te male, although many times they commit su!cide after already killing their spouse or girlfriend. Wh!tes have been in America and free longer than the blacks and still have issues with violent crimes.
The democrat party is still the party of the klan, just a different incarnation.
Right. This whole racism issue isn't about the country. It's not about America. It's the problem the Progressive Democrats have WITH THEMSELVES. Everybody else needs to just step aside and let them go at it. It's their problem.
Very keen insight. I think the Dems hate themselves and hate any non-Dem even more.
Garland is one scary dude. Watch out.
Say Mr. Garland, Sir, can you answer my question about all of those "'Illegal Immigrant-Aliens And Illegal Immigrant-Alien Children (Who Illegally Use The USA's Southern Border, Like It Is An Old Fashioned UNSECURED Department Stores Revolving Front And Back Doors, Who Also Want To Illegally Sponge Off Of 'We The Legal Citizens/Peoples And Legal Immigrants Of The USA's Hard Earned Tax Dollars, Yes All Of We The Legal Peoples Of The USA's Hard Tax Dollars) That Have Been Stolen By All Of Those Blind And Deaf Autocratic, Aristocratic, Biased, Stubbornly Indoctrinated, Anti-American And Anti-US Constitutional, Communistic And Socialistic Progressive Liberal Democratic Party Members And Their Blind And Deaf, Far Left Leaning Illegally Labeled RINO Repub. Puppet Followers, Who Gives Away All Of 'We The Legal Citizens/Peoples And Legal Immigrants Of The USA's Stolen Hard Earned Tax Dollars' To All Of Those Illegal Immigrant-Aliens And Those IIA Children, Who Truly Had To Stay Inside Their Previous Home Countries Boundaries, Until They Followed, Completed That Broken US Immigration And Naturalization Act, First, And Then Each Received Their Very Own Approval, To Finally Start Their Very Own Trek To The USA's Very Own Border Line!???!!!!!! I WANT A HONEST AND TRUTHFUL ANSWER, SIR!!!
Just where is his proof of that? Nowhere, that's where. He forgets he is from the party of slavery and the party of the KKK. Maybe he needs to look at himself.
And the democrats are the ones keeping racism going, they are the party of the kkk, Jim Crowe laws, segregation and their constant lies about republicans being racists, white supremests. All this started when obama was in office always playing the race card when people didn't agree with his failed policies and his destroy America agenda. Now the dems are trying to suck up to African Americans and Latinos because they are losing so many of them switching to the republican party because they are tired of the lies and broken promises the democrats have been telling them for 50 years. So the real racism problem is the democrat party trying to start a race war with the help of domestic terrorists antifa and the blm.
What a load of hogwash. Do you even believe yourself? "all the southern segregatist Democrats became Republicans". That's the phony bedtime story you libs tell your kids to brainwash them. Ever hear of Joe Biden's best friend Robert Byrd? There's your Democrat. Grand Kleigel of the KKK. Oh maybe you mean the Democrat Governor of Virginia who loves to wear bl**kface? Or maybe you mean Tim Scott? Tim Scott, African American REPUBLICAN senator? That segregationist? You're just another spin-meister, Leftwing, liar. The Republican Party stands for Individual Freedom and Responsibility, the US Constitution (as written), God and Country, and the AMERICAN Flag. The Democrat Party is still trying to ENSLAVE US ALL.
Racism is not just an American problem. It is practiced all over the world, including in
Hong Kong against white people who are called "Gweilo," White Devils. In Laos they are called Round Eyes, which is a comparatively mild discriminatory label. – I think the only final solution will be if eventually everybody will be a multi-racial mixture.
there aren't any liberals in the democrat party now … either.
I'm old enough to remember when all the southern segregationist Democrats became Republicans. The Southern States used to be Blue States, and now they mostly Red States. Doesn't that tell you something? In those days there were liberal Republicans like Nelson Rockefeller to help pass the Civil Rights Act. There aren't any liberals in the Republican Party any more. The Republican Party is now the descendant of the Confederates, trying to protect the Confederate flag and statues.
America is very divided on this issue. The group on one side is mostly Democratic, and includes nearly all people of color. On the other side we have mostly Republicans and is nearly all white. Republicans are making a very serious mistake in disagreeing with Merrick Garland. It means a generation with the Republican Party in the minority, and few people of color.
Racism exists within all races, Garland.
The Democratic party is the problem; it's supporters are some of the most ignorant, badly informed, and poorly educated segments of society. It's reliance of a nearly unanimous and ignorant black vote means it has to cater to anti-cop, anti law enforcement rhetoric. The black members of Congress fan the flames of racism daily with their willingness to blame white people for all of the problems of the black population. Waters, Clyburn et all are nothing but pimps, hustlers, liars as well as minstrel show and vaudeville acts who belong on stage at the Apollo theater than in a serious legislative body. Furthermore the black population is beset by multiple cultural pathologies that bring them into contact with the criminal justice system-dysfunctional families, high levels of crime, school dropout rates, out of wedlock birth rates, alcohol and drug abuse and other problems that make it less likely that they can function in the mainstream of society with a high degree of moral and intellectual competence. These are self inflicted problems and will not be solved by voting. White people are not responsible for these problems. But Democrats are responsible for encouraging this politics of victimization and grievance among black people. My belief is that black people who ferment violence should not be allowed to vote at all. And I favor tightening up voter laws to guard against fraud .
The entire Biden cadre of Marxist fellow travelers is attempting to foment revolution in this country by continually stirring up the gullible paranoid professional victims and their apologists . Every day these people hammer away at how horrible America is and what a dreadful group of people our country's founders and founding principles were . They glorify people who are truly the worst examples of humanity George Floyd is only the tip of the rotten dung heap . The Democrats are sickening . ………… and they wonder why people don't like them .
Know why Garland didn't make it to the Supreme Court? As a judge he insisted that the Benghazi raid as caused by a video. Susan Rice and Hillary Clinton were proven to be liars when they went on TV a supported the same idea. When something is a known LIE you do NOT defend it.
UH…Excuse me. Racism is all over the world since beginning of time. Garland YOU are an IDIOT. What is an American Problem is the Democratic Party constantly trying to DIVIDE and CONQUER this GOD GIVEN COUNTRY.
It's not an American problem. It's a Democrat Party problem. They've been racists for centuries, going back to the early days of this country—-they owned the plantations, they invented the KKK, Jim Crow, segregation, fought against the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, created the inner-city plantations that keep blacks enslaved in big cities, destroyed the black family, and cannot let go of seeing everything through the lense of skin color and "complexion". They are obsessed by it, consumed by it, and hurting everyone around them by it. The Republican Party came into being to FREE the slaves and end slavery, and are the exact OPPOSITE of the racist Democrats. They believe in INDIVIDUAL identity and freedom. They reject defining people by their skin color. In this regard the Republican Party is the Party of Martin Luther King, Jr. They aren't the racists. The Democrats are.
Garland is an idiot and a bought and paid for Anti-American Communist sympathizer at best.
I think your stupidity is the problem
What is causing the so-called racism , is the Democratic Socialist Party with thier own narratives and the FAKE opinion networks like cnn and msnbc . The democrats want to divide the country by constantly brainwashing the blacks that this country is a racist country . This way , they can keep them voting for democrats .
I think racism has escalated since Obama did his very best to make it more violent instead of lending his voice to peace, since he is not 100% black his mom was white he had a totally different perspective n this. He chose violence and hate speech. Now with this guy in there pouring gas instead of water on a already out of control fire, we are so far behind in relations with this issue. So if this guy. ( forgot his name) says it's bad he is right. It got worse and still is getting worse under the Democratic regime. That is how a non politician sees it. You know the actual person living with the problems . theses numb brains are doing
Racism, can be argued, is everywhere. It started with the caveman and has been with us ever since. It is not uniquely American though the left wants us to believe that, that's part of their tool chest for power. Racism does exist here, though it would be fair to say it mostly lies in democratic controlled cities. We country folk just kinda get along with everybody. The same can be said of slavery. That was not solely an American invention but I'm sure some the native tribes did partake in that practice. Slaves were here at the time of Christ and let's not forget the black tribes of Africa who first sold the black man to white man that transported them throughout the world. None of that makes it right, it just was. And let's end this conversation with the fact that it was the democrats that promoted slavery in America and still promote it to this very day……they just call it something different today
Sorry, I took Attorney General Merrick Garland for one of the @scotus. My mistake. However the same applies. Shame on YOU< @aggarland
Keep drinking the coolade Garland…you are getting more like Biden with each passsing day.
Shame on you, Judge Merrick Garland, to even utter the words 'racism". How can we rely on the highest court in the country, that has become primarily leftist oriented. YOU ALL NEED TO RESIGN, JUDGES OF @SCOTUS, except for Clarence Thomas.
Garland's the creep that managed the cover-up of Okla City – bombed by the ATF and FBI. "A Nobel Lie". And Okla City Officer Terry Yeakey murdered by the FBI. No autopsy required by law after the "execution" of Army Intelligence employee Tim McVeigh.