Former Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday described systemic racism as a “left-wing fable” throughout a speech hosted by a Republican group in N
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday described systemic racism as a “left-wing fable” throughout a speech hosted by a Republican group in New Hampshire, adopting the racial politics of his former boss, President Donald J. Trump.
However Mr. Pence, a possible candidate for a 2024 presidential run, additionally distanced himself from the previous president, describing the Jan. 6 assault as “a darkish day within the historical past of the US Capitol.”
“President Trump and I’ve spoken many occasions since we left workplace,” Mr. Pence stated. “I don’t know if we’ll ever see eye-to-eye on that day.”
The speech illustrated the cautious stability Mr. Pence is aiming to strike in squaring the rhetoric of the Republican Occasion underneath Mr. Trump whereas standing by his opposition to Mr. Trump’s makes an attempt to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election.
After focusing a lot of his speech on touting the achievements of the Trump administration, Mr. Pence took intention at “vital race idea,” a graduate college framework that has discovered its method into Ok-12 public schooling, asserting that younger youngsters are being taught “to be ashamed of their pores and skin coloration.”
“It’s previous time for America to discard the left-wing fable of systemic racism,” Mr. Pence stated on the annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner hosted by the Hillsborough County Republicans in Manchester, N.H.
“America will not be a racist nation,” Mr. Pence stated to raucous applause, two days after President Biden commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Bloodbath.
Republicans have launched an lively marketing campaign in current months aiming to dictate how historic and fashionable racism in America is taught in faculties, and Mr. Pence indicated his assist of efforts to ban vital race idea by laws superior in Republican-led states. Mr. Pence had beforehand focused vital race idea in tweets and in his first speech in April after leaving workplace.
Mr. Pence’s enchantment to racial politics went past schooling. Discussing efforts to defund regulation enforcement businesses, the previous vice chairman stated “Black lives usually are not endangered by police, Black lives are saved by police,” co-opting the language of Black Lives Matter — a motion he had shunned in workplace.