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Rachel Noerdlinger
Mercury LLC
August 10, 2020

MORE THAN 100 BLACK MALE LEADERS SIGN STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY REQUIRING A BLACK WOMAN VICE PRESIDENT

 

As someone who has said throughout the campaign that VP Joe Biden needs to choose a Black woman VP, the urgency for that pick has gone from something that SHOULD happen to something that HAS to happen. It disgusts us that Black women are not just being vetted in this VP process but unfairly criticized and scrutinized.
 
Was Joe Biden ever labeled "too ambitious" because he ran for president three times? Should President Obama not have made him the VP because he had to worry about his "loyalty" when he clearly had AMBITIONS to be president himself? Why does Senator Kamala Harris have to show remorse for questioning Biden's previous stance on integrated busing during a democratic primary debate?
 
Have Democratic Party leaders, allies, or donors ever required Joe Biden to show remorse for the 1986 or 1988 Anti-Drug Abuse bills, which established mandatory minimum sentencing and subsequently crack-cocaine sentencing disparities, and by his own admission, led to mass incarceration? What about the 1994 Crime Bill? Let’s be clear about the kind of remorse and reckoning that matters in 2020 when the Black community is still suffering the consequences for these oppressive measures. So, Black women are the only ones required to stay in their place and to show remorse for even questioning their own oppression?
 
For too long Black women have been asked to do everything from rally the troops to risk their lives for the Democratic Party with no acknowledgment, no respect, no visibility, and certainly not enough support. More than 700 Black women signed on to a letter demanding a Black woman VP. And we, black men, stand in solidarity with them.
 
Failing to select a Black woman in 2020 means you will lose the election. We don't want to choose between the lesser of two evils and we don't want to vote the devil we know versus the devil we don't because we are tired of voting for devils—period.
 
In solidarity, 
 
Sean “Diddy” Combs                                                            
Lenard “Charlamagne Tha God” Mckelvey 
Michael Bennett 
Bishop William J. Barber 
Ben Crump, Esq. 
Chris Paul
James Gee 
Jeff Johnson 
Dr. Wes Bellamy 
Dr. Michael Eric Dyson 
Rev. Jamal Bryant
Mysonne Linen
Shelley Davis 
Will Packer 
Karim Webb 
Eddie Glaude 
Deon Taylor
Randall Pinkett
Brandon J. Johnson 
Timothy “Timbaland” Mosley  
Nigel Talley 
Van Lathan 
Corey Jacobs 
Marcus L. Martin MD 
Quinton Harrell 
Evans Ross 
Jason Martin 
Robert Wright 
Corey Gamble 
Wayne Barrow
Felix Stallings Jr. 
Karriem Mack 
Malcolm Davis 
Rodriquez “Jacquees” Broadnax
Al Harrington 
Roy Davis Jr. 
Chad Elliott Jr.
Richard Morris 
Tarik Brooks 
Omari V. Bouknight 
Tyrone “Ty Dolla $ign” William Griffin Jr. 
James Vaughns 
Emmanuel Omolabi 
Terrence J. 
Detavio Samuels 
Maurice Barrow 
Nick Cannon
Cedric The Entertainer Kyles 
Deondre Whitfield 
Kirk Lightburn 
Dr. Rickey White 
Cartier Brown 
Freddy Jackson
Omar Epps 
Matthew J. Middleton 
Jay Lundy 
Doug E. Fresh 
Mark Wesley 
Myron Adoteye 
Earl Stevens 
Brandon Marshall 
Doug Baldwin 
Kam Chancellor 
Tuma Basa 
Ples Jones 
Jonathan Randle 
Chris Robinson 
Rep. Derwin Montgomery 
Horace Levon Linnen
Ronald Bacon 
Derek " Chuck Bone" Osorio
NeAndre Broussard
Aliaume Damala Badara “Akon” Thiam
Anthony Williams
Ray Muhammad
Dennis Rogers, PhD 
Brandon Scott 
Brian Rowland
Johnathan Randall
Jermaine Reed
Rep. Jewel Jones
Gregory Jones
Eric Gerald 
Leon Keel
Ron Samuels
Conrad Neblett
Kwame McLeod
Stephen Green   
Bakari Kitwana 
Cliff Albright 
Phil Hughley
Anthony Anderson 
Javin Joyce 
Eddie Francis 
Jerry “JB Smoove” Angelo Brooks
Baye Adofo-Wilson 
Collins Pettaway, III
Genaro Stewart 
Rev. Mark Thompson 
Rashaad Lambert 
Omar Beasley 
Mark Anthony Neal 
Joe Dillard Jr. 
Al B. Sure! 
Van Jones 
Thomas Wilson
Alvin Waters
Calvin Waters
Montez Cornelius
Rev. Herbert Daughtry
Bakari Sellers 
Pastor Michael McBride 
Rev. Tony Lee 
Zuo Reeves 
Rahim Jenkins 
Bill Bellamy 
Richard Gant 
Rev. Lukata Mjumbe 
Bobby L. Fuse
Eric Gantt
Koko Archibong
Terrence Charles
Jeff Rush
Channing Johnson
 
NOTE: This statement of solidarity is in response to the more than 700 Black women who signed a letter calling for a Black woman Vice President
 

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