[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 8, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H5363]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


CONDEMNING THE ATROCITY THAT OCCURRED IN BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ON MAY 14, 
  2022, IN WHICH 10 AMERICANS WERE KILLED AND 3 WERE INJURED, AND IN 
 WHICH 11 OF THE 13 VICTIMS WERE BLACK AMERICANS, CONDEMNING THE GREAT 
   REPLACEMENT THEORY AS A WHITE SUPREMACIST CONSPIRACY THEORY, AND 
REAFFIRMING THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITMENT TO COMBATING WHITE 
                SUPREMACY, HATRED, AND RACIAL INJUSTICE

  Pursuant to section 6 of House Resolution 1153, H. Res. 1152 is 
adopted.
  The text of the resolution is as follows:

                              H. Res. 1152

       Whereas, on May 14, 2022, in Buffalo, New York, 10 
     Americans were killed and 3 were injured by a self-described 
     White supremacist who drove more than 200 miles to carry out 
     this racist, violent mass shooting with an assault-style 
     rifle at a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood;
       Whereas the self-described White supremacist and antisemite 
     who allegedly carried out this racially motivated, anti-Black 
     massacre with a firearm reportedly wrote a manifesto citing 
     the White supremacist Great Replacement Theory;
       Whereas the alleged gunman livestreamed the mass shooting 
     on Twitch;
       Whereas the victims who tragically died were Aaron Salter, 
     Ruth Whitfield, Pearly Young, Katherine ``Kat'' Massey, 
     Heyward Patterson, Celestine Chaney, Roberta Drury, Margus D. 
     Morrison, Andre Mackneil, and Geraldine Talley;
       Whereas the victims who were injured were Zaire Goodman, 
     Jennifer Warrington, and Christopher Braden;
       Whereas the ``Great Replacement Theory'' is a White 
     supremacist conspiracy theory that perpetuates the racist, 
     xenophobic, nativist, Islamophobic, and antisemitic falsehood 
     that non-White immigrants are being brought into the United 
     States and other Western countries to repopulate majority 
     White countries and disempower White voters to achieve a 
     political agenda, and to specifically bring upon the genocide 
     of White people;
       Whereas this hateful conspiracy theory has been cited as a 
     motivation for White supremacist terrorist attacks 
     domestically and internationally, including--
       (1) the targeting of a Tops Friendly Market in a 
     predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, in 
     2022, in which the alleged gunman murdered 10 Black people, 
     and injured 1 Black person and 2 White people;
       (2) the murder of 9 Black worshipers at the Emanuel African 
     Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 
     2015;
       (3) the White nationalist Unite the Right rally in 
     Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 that resulted in 9 wounded 
     and in the murder of Heather Heyer;
       (4) the murder of 11 people and wounding of 6 in an 
     antisemitic attack on the Tree of Life L'Simcha synagogue in 
     Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 2018;
       (5) the targeting of Muslim worshippers, in which a gunman 
     murdered 50 people at the Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic 
     Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019;
       (6) the targeting of a Walmart in a predominantly Hispanic 
     neighborhood in El Paso, Texas, in 2019, in which a gunman 
     murdered 23 people and injured 3; and
       (7) the targeting of 3 Asian-owned spas in the Atlanta, 
     Georgia, metro area on March 16, 2021, in which a gunman 
     killed 8 people, including 6 Asian women;
       Whereas this hateful conspiracy theory and White supremacy 
     inflicts harm to individuals and communities in addition to 
     physical injuries and death;
       Whereas many individuals in positions of power and media 
     institutions with widely viewed public platforms have 
     contributed to the normalization and legitimization of the 
     underlying principles of the Great Replacement Theory; and
       Whereas the people of the United States stand in solidarity 
     with those harmed by this hateful, senseless tragedy: Now, 
     therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
       (1) condemns in the strongest terms the Great Replacement 
     Theory, a White supremacist conspiracy theory that has been 
     used to falsely justify racially motivated, violent acts of 
     terrorism domestically and internationally;
       (2) honors the memory and legacy of the victims and 
     acknowledges the lasting impact that this White supremacist 
     act of violent extremism will have on the Black community of 
     Buffalo, New York, the United States, and globally;
       (3) encourages all Americans to remember the victims of 
     racially motivated hate crimes connected to White supremacist 
     conspiracy theories such as the Great Replacement Theory; and
       (4) reaffirms the commitment of the Federal Government to 
     combat White supremacy in all forms by developing the 
     coordinated, whole-of-government approach to address White 
     supremacist violence.

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