Mike Pence couldn’t bring him to acknowledge the value of Black lives during a recent interview about George Floyd, police brutality and Juneteenth.
After being pressed by an interviewer on television to say the “Black Lives Matter,” the Vice President fumbled through his words for a while before deciding to instead reply that “all lives matter.”
During an interview with Philadelphia ABC affiliate WPVI-TV, the vice president was asked by anchor Brian Taff to “utter those words’ Black lives matter.
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“Forgive me for pressing you on this, sir,” Taff followed up with Pence, “but I will note you did not say those words, 'Black lives matter,' and there is an important distinction.
People are saying, of course all lives matter, but to say the words is an acknowledgment that Black lives also matter at a time in this country when it appears that there's a segment of our society that doesn't agree.