We Have To Speak Out, Have To Act: Biden Condemns Anti-Asian Violence

Without naming Donald Trump, Biden said that Americans are "learning again what we've always known: Words have consequences. It's the coronavirus, full stop."

US President Joe Biden on Friday denounced the scourge of violence against Asian-Americans, telling a community plunged into grief after this week's Atlanta murders that the nation must not be complicit in the face of racism and xenophobia. After meeting with leaders of Georgia's Asian-American community, Biden delivered a brief speech at Atlanta's Emory University and said he told the leaders that hate and violence have been "often met with silence" in the United States. "But that has to change because our silence is complicity. We cannot be complicit," Biden said. "We have to speak out, we have to act," he added, as he called on Americans to "combat this resurgence of xenophobia."