On May 14, an 18-year-old gunman viciously took the lives of 10 Americans and injured three more. Eleven of the 13 victims were Black Americans.
This act of terror was inspired and initiated by a white supremacist conspiracy called the “Great Replacement Theory”— a deeply harmful ideology that describes a false plot where non-white immigrants are entering America to disempower and subjugate white people. It is a tool used to justify Islamophobia, xenophobia, and mass murder.
We can no longer wait for Congress to take action. That’s why I introduced House Resolution 1152 to clearly address the tragedy in Buffalo, NY, implement a national day of remembrance, and urge the whole of Congress to be diligent in combating white supremacy. I’m proud to say it passed with 218 votes.
The Buffalo shooting was one of the worst racially motivated massacres in New York’s history. I can remember sobbing in my car, terrified of taking my children to school as I thought about what could possibly happen to them. I just couldn’t bear it — and that’s why this work is so deeply personal and important to me and millions of Americans across the country.
House Resolution 1152 is not just a one-off action. It’s about continuing to look at where white nationalism lives and breathes in our democracy and our law enforcement.
We often believe that Republican rhetoric is so outrageous that American people aren’t going to be influenced by it. Yet, the Great Replacement Theory has been highlighted hundreds of times by conservative news sources and has been invoked by mass shooters at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2018, in El Paso, Texas in 2019, and by the Christchurch shooter in New Zealand, in 2019.
If this rhetoric radicalizes just one person to commit mass murder, then we have failed as a Democratic Party, and irreversible damage has already been done. We need to do everything in our power to push back against it.
The swift passage of this resolution is but the first of many steps in our fight to rid our nation and our democracy of white supremacy once and for all. Add your name today in support of our resolution to fight back against racist rhetoric and work to build a safe, unified, and multi-racial democracy and community that we deserve.
Peace and love,
Jamaal Bowman
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