为了打开有关美国种族的部分,韦尔克向候选人描述了“谈话”-当有色人种的父母,无论阶级或收入如何,都为他们的孩子做准备,使他们有可能被警察以其他任何原因作为目标,皮肤的颜色-向拜登提出第一个问题。
韦尔克说:“我希望你直接与这些家庭交谈。” “你知道为什么这些父母担心孩子吗?”
拜登说:“是的,我愿意。” “问题的事实是美国存在制度上的种族主义。我们一直说,我们从未辜负它,我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的,所有男人和女人都是平等的。猜猜是什么?我们从来没有辜负它。”
拜登继续说:“我们必须提供更好的经济机会,更好的教育,更好的医疗保健,更好的上学机会,更好的借钱来创业。”
“而且我已经制定了一个清晰的计划,关于如何做这些事情只是为了给人们一个机会。这是关于积累财富的能力以及摆脱暴力的能力。”
当向特朗普提出同样的问题时,总统提出了拜登有争议的1994年犯罪法案,并再次表示,除了总统亚伯拉罕·林肯以外,没有人为黑人做过比特朗普更多的事情。
在对拜登发动攻击之前,特朗普说:“是的,我愿意。” “再次,他在政府任职47年。除了1994年对黑人社区造成如此伤害外,他从未做过任何事。”
他补充说:“没有任何人比唐纳德·特朗普在黑人社区上做得更多。如果你看,除了亚伯拉罕·林肯,可能是例外,但除了亚伯拉罕·林肯,没有人做我所做的事。”
特朗普继续抨击拜登,因为他没有在任职时进行任何推动的改变,并表示竞选总统是对奥巴马和拜登的直接回应。
特朗普说:“乔,我因你而竞选。我因巴拉克·奥巴马(Barack Obama)而竞选。因为你做得不好。如果我认为你做得好,我永远也不会竞选。” “我因为你而跑。”
As candidate tackle race in America, Trump tells Biden: ‘I ran because of you’
To open the section on race in America, Welker described "the talk" to the candidates -- when parents of color, regardless of class or income, prepare their children for the chance that they could be targeted by police for no reason other than the color of their skin -- giving the first question to Biden.
"I would like you to speak directly to these families," Welker said. "Do you understand why these parents fear for the children?"
"Yes, I do," said Biden. "The fact of the matter is there is institutional racism in America. We have always said, we've never lived up to it, that we hold these truths to be self-evident, all men and women are created equal. Guess what? We have never, ever lived up to it."
"We have to provide better economic opportunity, better education, better health care, better access to schooling, better access to borrow money to start businesses," Biden continued. "And I've laid out a clear plan as to how to do those things just to give people a shot. It's about accumulating the ability to have wealth as well as it is to be free from violence."
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When the same question was posed to Trump, the president raised Biden's controversial 1994 crime bill and again said no one has done more for the Black community than Trump -- other than President Abraham Lincoln.
PHOTO: President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participate in the final presidential debate at Belmont University on Oct. 22, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn.
"Yes, I do," Trump said, before launching an attack on Biden. "And again, he's been in government 47 years. He never did a thing, except in 1994, when he did such harm to the Black community."
"Nobody has done more for the Black community than Donald Trump. And if you look, with the exception of Abraham Lincoln, possible exception, but the exception of Abraham Lincoln, nobody has done what I've done," he added.
Trump went on to rail against Biden for not making the changes he's pushing when he was in office and said he ran for office as a direct response to Obama and Biden.
"Joe, I ran because of you. I ran because of Barack Obama. Because you did a poor job. If I thought you did a good job, I would have never run," Trump said. "I ran because of you."