Joe Biden, Learn the Names of the Children You Are Killing
Norman Solomon
The People's Voice
To: President Joe Biden
You’ve often spoken of how much you care about children and how terrible it is when they’re murdered. “Too many schools, too many everyday places have become killing fields,” you said at the White House last spring on the one-year anniversary of the school shooting in Uvalde. At the time of that tragedy in Texas, you had quickly gone on live television, speaking gravely.
“There are parents who will never see their child again,” you said, adding: “To lose a child is like having a piece of your soul ripped away. . . . It’s a feeling shared by the siblings, and the grandparents, and their family members, and the community that’s left behind.”
And you asked plaintively: “Why are we willing to live with this carnage? Why do we keep letting this happen?
Where in God’s name is our backbone to have the courage to deal with it and stand up to the lobbies?”
The massacre in Uvalde took the lives of 19 children. For nearly three months, the ongoing massacre in Gaza has taken the lives of that many children every few hours.