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At this point it seems likely to happen with Harris and Rice as the two leading candidates. Interesting article in that it acknowledges the lack of enthusiasm for Biden among young black voters, and young voters of color. It's not that these people would ever vote for Trump but there is concern they don't show up.
Biden's looking good right now but ultimately people have to turn out.
Black Lives Matter co-creator: Biden must choose a Black woman for VP
Joe Biden will soon choose his running mate, and Black Lives Matter co-creator Alicia Garza says it had better be a Black woman.
“A Black woman in particular and not just a woman of color,” the Oakland resident told The Chronicle’s “It’s All Political” podcast, because “Black voters are who essentially made Joe Biden the presumptive nominee. That’s facts on facts.”
The facts being that Biden’s campaign was floundering until Democratic Rep. James Clyburn, South Carolina’s most powerful Black elected official, endorsed him before that state’s primary in February. That locked in South Carolina’s substantial African American vote for Biden, who had been thumped in the first three primary and caucus states.
Four days later, voters in most of the Super Tuesday states — California was an exception — followed South Carolina’s lead, and Biden was suddenly on his way to locking up the nomination.
Garza’s demand is a sign of how far the movement has come. Now, “Black Lives Matter” is painted down the middle of streets in New York, Washington, D.C., and Oakland. Two in 3 Americans polled for a Gallup survey released last week said they support the racial justice protests that have occurred in more than 2,000 cities since George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis police custody in May.
Four years ago, few Democratic office-seekers would even say the words “Black Lives Matter.” Now, the party’s presidential nominee-to-be isn’t just saying the words, he’s listening.
Garza, now a principal in the Black Futures Lab think tank, said the “Biden Plan for Black America” sounds a lot like what her organization is proposing. Among his proposals: He’s calling for a $15,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers to help Black families build wealth, promising to pump $70 billion into historically black colleges and universities, and wants to triple funding for schools with low-income students.
Garza said this is a next step for the movement: getting politicians to enact policies that help the Black community.
“It is heartening to me that after months of lobbying, we’re starting to see that this campaign is listening and recognizing that Black communities are not only central to them winning a presidential election, but Black communities are also central to making sure that our democracy survives,” Garza said.
Black people are among the most loyal Democratic voters, Garza noted. Now is the time for Biden to acknowledge their support, she said, not after the election.
“There are some people who are so fearful that (President) Trump will win the election in 2020, that there’s no room to actually push the Biden campaign to be better and to do better,” Garza said.
That is why, in addition to the policy proposals and a vice presidential nominee, Garza wants Biden to nominate an African American woman to the Supreme Court. None of the 114 people who have served on the high court has been a Black woman.
“Black communities in this past primary really showed up and showed out to ensure that this particular candidate would become the presumptive nominee,” Garza said. “We need to actually see a reflection of that gratitude in relationship to who Vice President Biden surrounds himself with, and that includes who will be on the ticket next to him leading up to November and beyond.”
But Garza acknowledged that there is not great enthusiasm for Biden among young Black voters — or young voters of any color. Biden also needs to talk to Black voters who are not potential homeowners, don’t have access to college or can’t find a job because they have a felony record, she said.
He needs to reach “those of us who are being pushed out of the economy, those of us who may have several family members who are incarcerated,” Garza said. “These are the kinds of issues that will expand the electorate and ensure that more of us turn out.”
For many young black voters, Garza said, “the choice is not between Biden or Trump. It’s whether to vote or not to vote. And that’s a huge problem.”
Garza is not happy about the whisper campaign against one of the top candidates on Biden’s short list for vice president, California Sen. Kamala Harris. A CNBC story anonymously quoted Biden donors who were trying to dissuade him from choosing Harris in part because she was seen as “too ambitious.”
“Too ambitious” is rarely used to describe white men in politics, Garza noted.
“It sounds like it came from a white guy,” she said.
Joining Harris on Biden’s short list are Los Angeles Rep. Karen Bass, former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth and Tammy Baldwin, Rep. Val Demings, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, former Georgia legislator Stacey Abrams and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. Only Warren, Baldwin and Whitmer are white. Lujan Grisham is Latina, and Duckworth is Thai American.
Garza didn’t express a preference, but said Harris is one of the “very talented and qualified Black women” on that list.
She says that unlike many other progressives, she isn’t troubled by Harris’ history as a prosecutor, both as San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general. Garza points out that San Francisco’s police union had an adversarial relationship with Harris, though statewide law enforcement unions were behind her by the time she was running for a second term as attorney general in 2014.
“If you were to listen to the police unions, you would have thought she was Huey Newton,” Garza said.
“What is important is that Sen. Harris has really demonstrated that she’s a fighter,” Garza said. “And I think that voters across the country want to see a fighter, because we want to win.
“We don’t want to do this ‘kumbaya’ type of thing. We’re in a moment right now where we have to actually state what our values are and what they’re not,” Garza said.
“And we’re going to have to go toe to toe with a machine that is hellbent on disrupting people’s ability to participate in the elections, and certainly is hellbent on taking this country into a direction that we should never go in.”
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics...e-15450363.php
Susan Rice would be a far better choice . Never ran for public office, not from CA, stellar academics.
Rice was born in Washington, D.C., and attended Stanford University and New College at the University of Oxford. Rice said that her parents taught her to "never use race as an excuse or advantage", and as a young girl she "dreamed of becoming the first U.S. senator from the District of Columbia".[5]
Rice was a three-letter varsity athlete,[9] student government president, and valedictorian at National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., a private girls' day school.[10] She attended Stanford University, where she received a Truman Scholarship and graduated with a BA with honors in history in 1986. She was elected Phi Beta Kappa her junior year.[11][12][13]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Rice
I'd prefer a one-legged bearded cross-dresser.
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
Biden will pick someone who he is comfortable with and who has his policies in mind.
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Earl (08-01-2020)
Garza for VP!.......
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
Isn't Rice only half black? Does that count?
Keep changing the names. It doesn't change the meaning.
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Earl (08-01-2020)
Earl (08-01-2020)
Susan Rice’s name may figure prominently in Durham’s report.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
Black men, white men and women need not apply for the second highest position in America.
The best qualified could be brown or red or purple...they need not apply.
The Democrat party, racist from the top down.
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