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Former Vice President and 2020 candidate Joe Biden visited a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday and told the congregation that white people "can never fully understand" institutional racism in the United States.

He had been visiting the 16th Street Baptist Church to mark the 56th anniversary of a Ku Klux Klan bombing there, which killed four black girls.

In his 20-minute speech, Biden made reference to recent attacks by white supremacists in the US, saying: "The domestic terrorism of white supremacy has been the antagonist of our highest ideals since before the founding of this country. Lynch mobs, arsonists, bomb makers, lone gunman."

"And as we all now realize, this violence does not live in the past," he said. "Those of us who are white try, but we can never fully, fully, understand no matter how hard we try."