[Sen. Kamala Harris]
Harris: “Right now, we have a president who turns our tragedies into political weapons. Joe will be a president who turns our challenges into purpose. Joe will bring us together to build an economy that doesn’t leave anyone behind.”
Photo: YouTube
Fannie Lou Hamer
Kamala Harris: Let’s Fight for the “America We Know is Possible”
NAACP: Kamala Harris’ VP Appointment “Defining Moment in U.S. History”
[Kamala Harris\NAACP]
NAACP: “We recognize the overwhelming significance of this moment and what it means for this nation. We must not allow coverage of Sen. Harris’ historic candidacy to decline into ugly racist and sexist stereotypes and attacks.”
Photo: YouTube
Black Women Leaders Denounce Racist, Sexist Attacks Against VP Candidates
[Black Women\Vice-President Pick]
Black Women Leaders: “Regardless of your political affiliation, whether it’s the media, members of the vice-presidential vetting committee, a former Governor, a top political donor, or a small-town mayor: We are not your Aunt Jemimas.”
Photo: Rachel Noerdlinger
KWAME TURE’S 1966 “BLACK POWER” SPEECH: “WE HAVE TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT”
[Black History\Kwame Ture\Stokely Carmichael]
Ture: “It’s time black people got together. We have to say things nobody else in this country is willing to say and find the strength internally and from each other to say the things that need to be said…We have to set the record straight.”
Photo: YouTube
FANNIE LOU HAMER: “IS THIS AMERICA, THE LAND OF THE FREE?”
[Celebrating Black History Month\Fannie Lou Hamer]
Fannie Lou Hamer: “I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off of the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?
Photo: YouTube
FANNIE LOU HAMER’S SPEECH AT 1964 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION: BLACKS FACE POLICE VIOLENCE TRYING TO VOTE
[Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer]
Fannie Lou Hamer, in 1964: “I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?”
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
