What made Joe Biden's video stand out | By DeanObeidallah for CNNOpinion
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Joe Biden's presidential announcement video on Thursday clocked in at just over three minutes and did something urgently needed in the 2020 race: put President Donald Trump's history of hate front and center. By doing so, Biden acknowledged the pain -- the real pain -- that so many marginalized communities have felt since Trump launched his campaign in June 2015 and demonized us.
Biden began his video with two powerful words that set the tone for what followed:"Charlottesville, Virginia." He then explained that Charlottesville is the home to Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the iconic words,"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.
Lemon: Trump's a bigot. That's evidence, not my opinion 02:26Then Biden turned to the event that has become synonymous with Charlottesville when he explained,"It was there on August of 2017 we saw Klansmen and white supremacists and neo-Nazis come out in the open, their crazed faces illuminated by torches, veins bulging and bearing the fangs of racism -- chanting the same anti-Semitic bile heard across Europe in the '30s.
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