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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
Biden's Note to Stanford Rape Victim Chanel Miller: 'I See You' (Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/after-brock-turner-trial-joe-biden-sent-note-to-stanford-rape-victim-chanel-miller-i-see-youWhen she received a letter from the White House in 2016, Chanel Miller was still living in anonymity.
She was known to the world as Emily Doe, the extraordinarily articulate and courageous survivor of sexual assault whose attacker, Brock Turner, served just three months in county jail after he was caught molesting her unconscious body near a dumpster at Stanford University in January 2015.
After her 12-page victim-impact statement to Turner went viral, Vice President Joe Biden felt compelled to reach out.
In his letter, he wrote, simply: “I see you.”
“What did it mean that the vice president of the United States of America had stopped every important thing he was doing to write, ‘I see you?’” Miller asked in her new memoir, Know My Name, which was published Tuesday.
“You have given them the strength they need to fight,” Biden told Miller. “And so, I believe, you will save lives.”
Miller’s new memoir echoes her powerful victim-impact statement, which was viewed more than 18 million times on BuzzFeed alone before it was read in its entirety on both CNN and in Congress. The book is a wrenching and intimate story of sexual assault, survival, self-discovery, trauma, family, and friendship. It’s a beautiful, revealing self-portrait. It’s funny, and it’s heartbreaking, and it’s an inspiration.
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She was known to the world as Emily Doe, the extraordinarily articulate and courageous survivor of sexual assault whose attacker, Brock Turner, served just three months in county jail after he was caught molesting her unconscious body near a dumpster at Stanford University in January 2015.
After her 12-page victim-impact statement to Turner went viral, Vice President Joe Biden felt compelled to reach out.
In his letter, he wrote, simply: “I see you.”
“What did it mean that the vice president of the United States of America had stopped every important thing he was doing to write, ‘I see you?’” Miller asked in her new memoir, Know My Name, which was published Tuesday.
“You have given them the strength they need to fight,” Biden told Miller. “And so, I believe, you will save lives.”
Miller’s new memoir echoes her powerful victim-impact statement, which was viewed more than 18 million times on BuzzFeed alone before it was read in its entirety on both CNN and in Congress. The book is a wrenching and intimate story of sexual assault, survival, self-discovery, trauma, family, and friendship. It’s a beautiful, revealing self-portrait. It’s funny, and it’s heartbreaking, and it’s an inspiration.
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If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden