Following the most devastating hate crime in Buffalo, New York’s history, President Biden visited the families of the victims killed in Saturday’s mass shooting.

Biden spoke at a press conference in Buffalo today where he denounced racial hatred, and reminded Americans that White extremists are a threat to the security of the nation. He also called on political leaders and the media to cease the harmful rhetoric that is influencing violence against minorities.

An excerpt from Biden’s speech on Tuesday:

“Hate will not prevail. White supremacy will not have the last word. Evil did come to Buffalo. It’s come to all too many places, manifested in a gunman who massacred innocent people in the name of hateful and perverse ideology rooted in fear and racism. It’s taken so much. Ten lives cut short in a grocery store, three others wounded by a hateful individual who had driven 200 miles from Binghamton to carry out a murderous, racist rampage that he would livestream, livestream to the world. What happened here is simple and straightforward: terrorism, domestic terrorism. Violence inflicted in the service of hate and a vicious thirst for power that defines one group of people being inherently inferior to any other group. Hate that through the media and politics, the internet has radicalized angry, alienated, lost and isolated individuals into falsely believing that they will be replaced, that’s the word, replaced, by the other, by people who don’t look like them and who are therefore in a perverse ideology that they possess and are being fed, lesser beings. I and all of you reject the lie. I call on all Americans to reject the lie. And I condemn those who spread the lie for power, political gain and for profit. ”