In Atlantic City speech, Kamala Harris outlines plan to close racial wealth gap

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Ian Sams @IanSams 12h12 hours ago
“She’s a remarkable speaker,” said Brooks, 36. “I’m impressed with her vision for not only the country but in our communities.”

Her sister, Amanda Brooks, 34, said Harris sounded like she had a strategy. She called the speech “inspiring.”


Kamala Harris speaks at the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Leadership Conference, Saturday Vernon Ogrodnek for the Press


In Atlantic City speech, Kamala Harris outlines plan to close racial wealth gap

____“We are better than this,” Harris told the crowd of hundreds as they gave her a standing ovation. “As I stand here before you today, as a serious and, as they call it, top-tier candidate to be the next president of the United States, I will tell you that we have a fight in front of us.”

Harris, who spoke during the Leadership Conference of Omega Psi Phi, one of the nation’s largest black fraternities, also talked about being raised as a daughter of the Civil Rights Movement and the work she’s done for criminal justice reform as a prosecutor, district attorney and attorney general in California.

Harris talked about her “3 a.m. agenda” — the issues she said she wants to solve that keep the majority of Americans up at night, including the racial wealth gap.

Harris’ three steps include changing the way credit scores are assessed to include rent, utility and other bills on time, create stronger anti-discrimination lending laws and require enforcement, and invest $100 billion to allow 4 million families in red-lined and federally subsidized housing to cover a down payment and closing costs on a home.

“By taking these steps, we could shrink the wealth gap in the United States between black households and others by at least one third,” she said (video).


Yahoo: Race is 'America’s Achilles heel,' Harris tells African-American group

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ — Sen. Kamala Harris told one of the nation’s largest African-American male fraternities Saturday that the issue of race and racism is “America’s Achilles heel” and that Russia will try to exploit this weakness.

Harris, a top contender for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, made the comment in the context of discussing Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, which she said was “a campaign of misinformation targeted on America’s Achilles heel, which is race, and focused on black folks.”

Russian agents wanted to “break whatever unity exists” among Americans and tested different messages “to see what can get the American public going at each other, pointing fingers at each other,” Harris said on “The Breakfast Club,” a popular radio show on Power 105, a New York hip hop station.

“They did it then. They will do it now,” Harris said.


watch speech: (42m)

(...my dad was Omega Psi Phi - top row, 3rd from the right)