Just right next to me there is a massive amount of what appears to be blood on the ground

here.

One person was shot inside the U.S. Capitol by a member of law enforcement.

This is an unprecedented security breach in the Capitol where you have so many people here.

They do not represent America.

America is so much better than what we see today.

This isn't what America is.

The storming of the Capitol building by White extremists, loyal to Donald Trump on January

26 was violent, deadly and shameful.

But it wasn't unprecedented.

The Capitol attacker didn't stop the certification of Biden's victory.

He'll be sworn into office on January 20th along with his VP, Kamala Harris.

But where the rioters may have gained some ground is keeping a light a centuries-old

flame of weaponized whiteness.

The attempt to overturn Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election follows

a long tradition in America of white violence aimed at undoing democracy.

Now as un-American as the sacking of the Capitol building may feel, that kind of racialized

political violence is as American as apple pie.

At nearly every turn where this country bent toward freedom, there was a violent backlash,

emancipation and reconstruction were followed by a period known as redemption, and the rise

of the clan and other terror organizations who tried to lynch us into submission.

The civil rights movement was met with church bombings and assassinations.

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