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Politics
Griffin Eckstein

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Biden defends pro palestine protester | History Defined

President Joe Biden encouraged a crowd to listen to a pro-Palestinian demonstrator during a speech on Friday, adding that the killing of innocent people "has to stop."

The interruption during a historic apology from Biden over the federal government’s long-term practice of sending Native American youth to boarding schools, an overt attempt at ethnic cleansing that sought to strip the indigenous Americans of their culture and language. Biden called the schools, which operated for more than a century, a "sin on our soul."

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