From the New York Times news section, a particularly shameless work of fake news in collaboration with the Biden Administration:

Confronting Violence Against Asians, Biden Says That ‘We Cannot Be Complicit’

Vice President Kamala Harris joined the president in forcefully condemning the killings in Atlanta. “Racism is real in America, and it has always been,” she said.

By Michael D. Shear, March 19, 2021

WASHINGTON — President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris traveled on Friday to Atlanta to express grief for the victims of a mass shooting that left eight people dead, six of them women of Asian descent, describing the tragedy as part of an increase in racially motivated violence and pledging to take action against hate and discrimination.

The gruesome shootings on Tuesday in Atlanta thrust Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris into the middle of a national struggle to confront the harassment and violence against Asian-Americans from people angry about the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than a half-million people.

How much evidence is there that any of the most publicized attacks on Asians in 2021 have been motivated by Covid? This white killer says he had sex/religion motives.

Have any of the numerous black attacks been credibly linked to the pandemic rather than just to blacks acting out violently, as they have been in large numbers ever since the Racial Reckoning was declared?

“They’ve been attacked, blamed, scapegoated and harassed. They’ve been verbally assaulted, physically assaulted, killed,” Mr. Biden lamented after a meeting with leaders of Atlanta’s Asian-American community that he described as heart-wrenching to be part of.

“It’s been a year of living in fear for their lives,” the president said.

Mr. Biden expressed empathy for the victims’ families, who he said were left with “broken hearts and unanswered questions.” And he said Americans should take responsibility for failing to express enough outrage about the targeting of people of Asian descent during the pandemic that has gripped the country.

“Because our silence is complicity,” he said. “We cannot be complicit. We have to speak out. We have to act.”

Mr. Biden had by his side the nation’s first vice president of Asian descent, who was — just through her presence — a powerful symbol of efforts to reject racial animosity and bias.

“Racism is real in America, and it has always been,” Ms. Harris said, speaking before Mr. Biden. “Xenophobia is real in America, and always has been. Sexism, too.”

Ms. Harris, whose mother was born in India, confronted the doubts expressed by some, including the F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray, about whether the killings in Atlanta were racially motivated. Investigators in Cherokee County, Ga., where some of the victims were targeted at a spa, have said that the gunman told them that he had a “sexual addiction” and had carried out the attacks as a way to eliminate temptation.

The vice president offered little doubt about what she believed and whom she blamed for stoking the violence, alluding to — without directly naming — former President Donald J. Trump, who repeatedly blamed the pandemic on what he called the “China virus.”

“For the last year, we’ve had people in positions of incredible power scapegoating Asian-Americans,” she said. “People with the biggest pulpits spreading this kind of hate.”

The Biden administration, she said, would not “stand by” in the face of racial violence.

“Whatever the killer’s motive, these facts are clear,” she said. “Six out of the eight people killed on Tuesday night were of Asian descent. Seven were women. The shootings took place in businesses owned by Asian-Americans. The shootings took place as violent hate crimes and discrimination against Asian-Americans has risen dramatically over the last year.”

Anti-Asian attacks have soared during the past year, part of a pattern that Mr. Biden called “wrong” and “un-American” last week during a speech at the White House. On Friday, he, too, appeared to blame Mr. Trump and his supporters without naming them directly, saying, “We’ve always known words have consequences.”

The moment is a delicate one for Mr. Biden — a new president commanding the country’s most important bully pulpit in the middle of grieving and racial reckoning.

You know, maybe all the “racial reckoning” talk is contributing to the big increase in violence by blacks since May 25?

… A torrent of hate and violence against Asian-Americans around the U.S. began last spring, in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. Community leaders say the bigotry was spurred by the rhetoric of former President Trump, who referred to the coronavirus as the “China virus.”

In January, an 84-year-old man from Thailand was violently slammed to the ground in San Francisco, resulting in his death at a hospital two days later. The attack, captured on video, has become a rallying cry.

By a 19-year-old black.

… Mr. Biden also accused his predecessor of embracing and fomenting the very racial strife that has roiled the country and inspired acts of violence like the one that erupted across Atlanta on Tuesday. It was Mr. Trump’s reaction to racist violence in 2017 in Charlottesville, Va. — and especially his comment about “good people” among the white supremacist rioters — that motivated him to run for president, Mr. Biden has often said.

Oh, boy …