The actor, who was running for governor in Texas before being approved, met briefly with President Joe Biden before addressing the White House newsroom from the auditorium. information from James Brady.
He said all the parents he spoke to expressed that “they want their children’s dreams to live on.”
“They want their loss of life to be significant,” McConaughey said.
He told the personal stories of some of the victims, showing the artwork of one girl and the green tennis shoes another was wearing.
Meanwhile, the son of Ruth Whitfield, an 86-year-old woman killed when a gunman opened fire on a racist attack on black shoppers in Buffalo, New York, on May 14 also challenged Congress to take action against “cancer of white supremacy “. and the national epidemic of armed violence.
“What are you doing? You were elected to protect us,” Garnell Whitfield jnr told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“Is there anything you personally are willing to do to stop the cancer of white supremacy and the domestic terrorism it inspires?” he asked. “If there is nothing respectful, then, senators … you should cede your positions of authority and influence to others who are willing to lead this issue.”
Garnell Whitfield, whose mother was killed in the Buffalo massacre, told Congress she had done nothing to show that the issue mattered. Credit: AP
Tuesday’s Senate hearing (AEST Wednesday) focused directly on the white supremacist ideology that, according to authorities, led an 18-year-old gunman dressed in military equipment to drive for hours in a predominantly black neighborhood of Buffalo and broadcast on direct their violent commotion.
The shooting left 10 people dead and several others injured.
“My mother’s life mattered,” Whitfield said. “Your actions here will tell us if you care and how much you care.”
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Shortly after the Buffalo massacre, a bill that would have strengthened federal resources to prevent domestic terrorism failed in the Senate at the hands of the Republican opposition.
Even at Tuesday’s hearing, Republican senators took the time to focus on the racial injustice protests that took place in the summer of 2020, citing these incidents as acts of domestic extremism.
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