Vice President Kamala Harris: We must 'speak truth' about history of racism in America

Vice President Kamala Harris said in an an exclusive interview on ABC's "Good Morning America" Thursday that we must 'speak truth' about history of racism in America.

Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday in an exclusive interview with ABC's "Good Morning America" that she did not think the United States was a "racist country" but that it was important to "speak the truth" about the role racism has played in the nation's history. Harris, the first Black vice president, was responding to GOP Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who on Wednesday night delivered the Republican response to President Joe Biden's address to a joint session of Congress. Scott, the only Black Republican senator, said "America is not a racist country" and took issue with what he called fighting "discrimination with different types of discrimination" and trying "to use our painful past to dishonestly shut down debates in the present." "No, I don't think America is a racist country," Harris told "Good Morning America" co-anchor George Stephanopoulos. "But we also do have to speak truth about the history of racism in our country and its existence today."