KAMALA HARRIS IS MAKING HISTORY AS THE FIRST BLACK OR INDIAN WOMAN AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET FOR EITHER MAJOR PARTY.

BUT WHILE BLACK VOTERS TEND TO VOTE DEMOCRATIC, NOT ALL ARE LINING UP TO ENDORSE HARRIS.

THE ADVOCACY GROUP, BLACK LIVES MATTER RECENTLY CALLED HARRIS'S CANDIDACY INTO QUESTION AS WELL AS THE PROCESS BY WHICH SHE'S BEEN NOMINATED.

JOINING US NOW VIA ZOOM TO EXPLAIN IS SIOBHAN DUNN NEWSOME, CO-FOUNDER OF BLACK LIVES MATTER GREATER NEW YORK.

WE SHOULD MENTION WE HAVE REACHED OUT TO THE CHICAGO BLACK LIVES MATTER GROUP, BUT THEY DECLINED.

SIOBHAN NEWS AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.

WE APPRECIATE IT.

A CITY, SO MUCH FOR HAVING ME.

SO LET'S START WITH THE STATEMENTS THAT BLACK LIVES MATTER RELEASED LATE LAST MONTH.

IT READS IN PART, QUOTE, WHILE THE POTENTIAL OUTCOME OF THE HARRIS PRESIDENCY MAY BE HISTORIC, THE PROCESS TO ACHIEVE THAT MUST ALIGN WITH TRUE DEMOCRATIC VALUES.

WE HAVE NO IDEA WHERE KAMALA KAMALA HARRIS STANDS ON THE ISSUES.

SHAVANO WHAT ARE WHAT IS IT THAT YOU'RE MOST CONCERNED WITH THE HARRIS CANDIDACY?

THIS FROM OLD CLICHE POLITICAL RHETORIC, BUT I'M AFRAID I'M WORK.

THE SCENE.

I THINK EXPERIENCE IN LAST 4 YEARS OF HIS ADMINISTRATION, BLACK FOLKS NOT PROGRESSED.

WE'VE SEEN DEI DO AWAY WITH.

WE'VE SEEN CRITICAL RACE THEORY DO AWAY WITH WE'VE SEEN A WEALTH GAP WE POLICE BRUTALITY ON RISE IN MAJOR CITIES.

IF I GEORGE FLOYD, YOU KNOW THE WORK ALL THE PROGRESS THAT OUR OUR ON THE GROUND, WHY BY BEING A WRECKAGE, IT'S NOT LIKE A BIG THING.

IT'S TOLD IN RACE AND IN THIS ADMINISTRATION AND WITHOUT CLEAR POLICY IN WHERE WE'RE HOLDING A TIMETABLE.

WHAT'S TO SAY THAT NOT GOING TO BE ANOTHER 4 YEARS OF THE SAME.

AND TO BE CLEAR IS SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'RE CONCERNED ABOUT, FOR EXAMPLE, A DEI THAT ARE THAT TEND TO FALL UNDER ON EITHER EDUCATION OR OR CORPORATE PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS.

I MEAN, DO YOU HOLD THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION RESPONSIBLE FOR SOME OF THOSE EFFORTS BEING DIMINISHED OVER THE LAST 4 YEARS.

ABSOLUTELY.

TO YOU AND I REMEMBER THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AGING MYSELF.

REMEMBER THE TAIL END OF THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION, BUT PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS THE LEADER OF THE FREE LEADS UP TO THAT PARTY IN THAT CAN TO GET THE LAST IS LACK THE PEOPLE AND WE'RE NOT SEEING SO YES, ASKED WHY DON'T NEED THAT?

PRESIDENT IS IN CHARGE THINGS THAT SEEM TO BE LOCAL AND STATE LEVEL.

ABSOLUTELY.

BUT HIS PASS TIME WITH BOTH WERE CAMPAIGNING.

THESE ARE THE FROM WE CALL BIDEN, HARRIS ADMINISTRATION PROMISE REFORM TURNED AROUND UNDER SAFER AMERICA ACT FUND THE POLICE TURNED AROUND UNDER THE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL PROMISE NOT TO STATE MONEY IF THEY D BEEN THE SO ALL THESE THINGS AT UNDER THE HANDS OF THE PRESIDENT.

THAT'S WHEN THE ARGUE THAT THIS COUNTRY WE I'M OKAY WITH REGARDS KAMALA HARRIS IN HER RECORD AS A DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CALIFORNIA, ARE THERE ASPECTS OF THAT THAT YOU FIND PARTICULARLY TROUBLING?

I'M ABSOLUTELY ADD THOSE TO SAY TO THAT ASKED HERE IN NEW YORK STATE GOVERNOR CUOMO AND ONE OF THOSE LAWS WISE OF POLICE SHOOTINGS THAT OCCURRED PULLED OUT OF A LOCAL TV AND GETTING TO THE STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL.

THE SCENE PROPOSED AFTER MIKE BROWN IN 2014 IN KAMALA HARRIS.

THE CLIENTS THAT TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT, HE ACTUALLY SAID IT WOULD BE BAD POLICE CARS.

YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, CALIFORNIA NEVER THAT KAMALA IS ALWAYS THERE TO PLACE, BUT HE REALLY GOT TO GIVE GREEN.

AND YOU LOOK AT THE STATE OF AMERICA, THE STATE BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA, HOW VERY AND THE MOST LIKELY TO BE IN POVERTY?

IT'S SCARY TO HAVE A CANDIDATE WHO WAS GOING TO GO OUT TIE.

I WANT TO GET A LITTLE BIT MORE OF THAT.

BUT SHABANI, YOU'VE ALSO EXPRESSED CONCERNS ABOUT THE PROCESS BY WHICH SHE HAS BEEN NOMINATED.

CAN A LITTLE EVERYTHING AMERICANS VOTE BECAUSE THEY WERE 18 IS USED TO A DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY.

WE ARE USED TO SUPER TUESDAY.

WE WERE OF THAT.

IF YOU LOOK AT POLLING DATING BACK TO 2021, KAMALA HARRIS IS NUMBERS WERE WORSE THAN A MONTH.

RIGHT THINGS.

IT'S NO REALISTICALLY.

HATE TO SAY AS A BLACK WOMAN DO EVEN BUT KAMALA HARRIS WILL NOT GET KNOW THAT ELECTED IN THE PRIMARY AND JOE BIDEN SO.

RIGHT NOW WE'RE IN A PLACE WHERE THERE'S NO HOUSE COMING OUT OF AND WEBSITE.

DONALD TRUMP IS ON CASE BUT 20 CAMPAIGN PROMISES RIDICULOUS.

OF COURSE THERE THE CRAB ONE, EVERY WORKER LIVED IT'S FILLED WITH RACIST RHETORIC, BUT IT WILL NOT HE'S GOING TO DO EVERYTHING HIS EVEN BY WAY OF THE EXECUTIVE ORDER IN KAMALA HARRIS.

HE'S TAKING THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE AND ESPECIALLY THE BLACK FOCUS SAFETY KERRY, DEMOCRAT PARTY OR PRI.

THERE'S NO THE.

SO YOU'VE SAID THAT, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE OF ALL OF THIS, YOU PLAN TO WITHHOLD YOUR VOTE BECAUSE YOU DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE VOTING FOR EITHER MAJOR PARTY CANDIDATES.

HOW DID IT FEEL TO ARRIVE AT THAT DECISION YOU?

WELL, ASHLEY, OUR 2016 ON TRUMP AND CALM.

SORRY, SO MUCH SO HILLARY WAS CAN WATCHED LAST HOUR.

BUT HONESTLY WITH NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE THEY CASE I AM ON THE SCHOOL WORKING STANDS IN THE ONE OF THE NATION'S POOR THING BRUSH AND ISSUES IN THE HALF.

I HOPE THE PEOPLE WE SPOKE OUT.

FROM THE BOTTOM UP, WE SPOKE TO EVERYONE FRIDAY MORNING AT 08:00AM EASTERN STANDARD TIME.

WE ARE WATCHING THE MAYBE WE CAN GO OUT IN SUPPORT.

KAMALA HARRIS.

THAT WEBSITE IS GOING TO BLACK AGENDA DOT COM AM EASTERN STANDARD AND LEAD A LIST DEMANDS.

A LIST POLICIES I WANT TO VOTE FOR I WANT TO GO BACK TO THAT OLD DEMOCRACY WHERE YOU HAD A CANDIDATE PROMISE YOU THINGS THINK WILL BUILD THEM BACK TO IF THEY DIDN'T.

YOU VOTED FOR SOMEONE OUT WE GO BACK TO DEMOCRACY AS WE KNOW THAT NOTHING HAPPENS FOR MARGINALIZED PEOPLE UNLESS THERE IS LEGISLATION AND RIGHT NOW, THERE IS NO THERE IS NO LEGISLATION WE ALSO SEE I'M CORI AND ALL BOWMAN THAT THE DNC IS GOING TO HAVE A GREAT EXCUSE TO IT CALMLY IS IN FACT, THE IT NEEDED HAVE THE BOARD CONGRESS.

2 WE HAVE TO SUPPORT THOSE PEOPLE, RIGHT?

MIND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WILL RUN CONGRESSIONAL LEVEL.

AND ALSO WHAT IS HER CAMPAIGN GOING TO DO?

IT?

WE FACE SHE LEARNED SORRY, JUST WE'RE JUST ABOUT OUT OF TIME.

SO I WANT TO BE SURE IT SOUNDS LIKE SHE COULD EARN YOUR VOTE BETWEEN NOW AND BUT IT WOULD BE A MATTER OF RESPONDING TO SOME OF YOUR CONCERNS.

I WANT GO.

PARTICIPATE IN THE SYSTEM JUST LIKE MY GRANDPARENTS PEOPLE FOR AND WE NEED 3 JUST THE 3 TOPPINGS AND WILL COMING RIGHT.

AND YOU OF COURSE, THAT YOU DID.

YOU MENTIONED YOUR WEBSITE OF ON AND OF COURSE, FOLKS CAN GO TO OUR WEBSITE TO FIND OUT ONCE THEY CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR.

UNFORTUNATELY, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO LET YOU I HOPE THE WEATHER IS GREAT