democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris Warned on Tuesday (October 16, 2024) that Republican Donald Trump will try to “institutionalize” harsh policing tactics that would disproportionately affect Black men across the country as he sought to address discriminatory law enforcement practices. Had promised to focus on making law.
During an hour-long radio town hall hosted by “Charlamagne tha God”breakfast clubOn the show, Ms. Harris said she would work to decriminalize marijuana, which leads to arrests, which also disproportionately impacts black men, and she acknowledged that everyday life for black people Racial disparities and biases exist in the U.S. – in home ownership, health care, economic prosperity and even voting.
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While Ms Harris worked to energize black men, Trump focused on women as he faced an all-female audience during a Fox News town hall in the battleground state of Georgia. The former President avoided questions about the degradation of abortion rights Under his watch, he waded into the country’s culture wars by vowing to ban male-born athletes from competing in women’s sports.
Trump also stuck to his recent description of his political opponents as the “enemy within” – rhetoric that exposes authoritarian rule.
Just 21 days before the final votes are cast in the 2024 presidential election, Harris and Trump are struggling to energize key constituencies in what looks to be an extremely tight election. Harris, who would be the nation’s first female president, is expected to expand her party’s advantage among female voters, while Trump is showing modest signs of progress among black men, who have overwhelmingly supported Democrats in the past.
A small change among any group can affect the election.
Ms Harris told Charlamagne that while racial bias persists, no one has the right to be voted out.
“We should never sit back and say, OK, I’m not going to vote because everything hasn’t been resolved,” she said. Win. I’m going to win, but it’s hard.”
The Vice President answered questions from the audience, as well as several people who joined the studio, including Pastor Solomon Kinloch Jr., pastor of Detroit’s Triumph Church.
When Harris was asked about compensation or possible government payments to descendants of enslaved people, he said the notion “should be studied, there’s no question about it.” It’s a position she has taken before, but Trump’s campaign quickly pushed back, saying the vice president is “open” to payments that could cost billions.
Trump has called for “a return to proven methods of fighting crime, including stop and frisk and broken windows policing.” Tactics implemented by the New York City Police Department included stopping, questioning, and sometimes searching people deemed “reasonably suspicious”. It disproportionately affected black and Hispanic men, and in 2013 the policy was found to violate the US Constitution.
Ms. Harris said part of her challenge is that the Trump campaign is “trying to scare people because otherwise they know they have nothing to go on. Ask Donald Trump to do that for Black America.” Ask him what his plan is. Trump did not respond to Ms Harris’s criticism on Tuesday, instead focusing on cultural issues that resonate with different groups of voters.
He promised to ban “men in women’s sports”, which in some cases was a reference to allowing transgender women to compete against women. The issue emerged as the central focus of Trump’s closing message, though there were relatively few examples of it across the country.
When the host pressed Trump on how he would enforce the ban, Trump said: “You just ban it. The President imposed a ban. Don’t let this happen.” Earlier, Harris stopped at a Black-owned art gallery for a conversation with Black people focused on entrepreneurship, which was also joined by actors Don Cheadle, Delroy Lindo and Detroit native Cornelius Smith Jr.
After taping the interview, Harris addressed a nearby watch party, telling hundreds of enthusiastic supporters that Detroit is a city of people “who have grit, who have tenacious passion, and who have optimism and ambition. And who work very hard for it.”
He said that “makes Detroit now and always a first-class city in the United States.” His comments come after Trump insulted Detroit while campaigning here last week and suggested again during remarks in Chicago on Tuesday that the city is “terrible.”
Ms Harris also this week announced a series of new proposals called the “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men” aimed at providing greater economic benefits to Black men – including providing forgivable business loans of up to $20,000 for entrepreneurs and Including creating more apprenticeships. Also support studies of sickle cell and other diseases more common in black men.
The focus on black men intensified last week when former President Barack Obama campaigned for Harris in Pittsburgh and said he wanted to tell black male voters “some truths,” suggesting that some people would oppose a woman as president. Not feeling the idea of. ,
The vice president’s campaign says it doesn’t believe Black men will support Trump in large numbers, especially after Harris strongly endorsed Democrat Joe Biden in 2020, with Harris as his running mate. They are more concerned about the measurable percentage of black men choosing not to vote at all.
published – October 16, 2024 08:24 am IST