In the evening’s opening address, Michelle Obama, the former first lady, also mentioned racial tensions.She linked Trump’s isolationism and rejection of foreign treaties to what she described as her distant policies at home.She alluded to Trump’s exit from the Iran nuclear deal negotiated through her husband, US President Barack Obama, in 2015.
“Internationally, we have turned our backs, not only on agreements forged through my husband, but also to alliances defended through presidents like Reagan and Eisenhower,” he said.”And here at home, while George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and a Still Being Killed an endless list of other people of no fault color, who claim that the mere fact that a black life counts is teased in the highest office in the country.”
Taylor and Floyd were killed by the police; Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, in March and Floyd in Minneapolis in May.Their deaths led to national protests opposed to police brutality.