Kamala Harris has earned an eleventh-hour show of support from Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim community leaders.

More than 100 Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and progressive Democrats and community leaders have signed a letter making the case for those reluctant to support Kamala Harris against Donald Trump.

“We know that many in our communities are resistant to vote for Kamala Harris because of the Biden administration’s complicity in the genocide,” the letter, published Thursday night, reads.

“Some of us have lost many family members in Gaza and Lebanon. We respect those who feel they simply can’t vote for a member of the administration that sent the bombs that may have killed their loved ones,” the letter continued. “As we consider the full situation carefully, however, we conclude that voting for Kamala Harris is the best option for the Palestinian cause and all of our communities.”

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM
    83·
    6 days ago

    This new tack that Harris is bad for Black people is as transparent as it is far fetched.

    As the California AG, she piloted programs that provided educational resources to both released prisoners, as well as at risk kids beginning in elementary schools.

    Those programs reduced truancy and improved outcomes for at risk individuals and families, who were disproportionately black. They have since become national models of social harm reduction.

    Harris supports legalization of marijuana and releasing non violent drug offenders, again disproportionately benefiting black Americans.

    Edit: Although these statements are all trivial to verify, some people may lack the basic search skills to do so. the following links provide additional information:

    Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Launches Initiative to Reduce Recidivism in California 2013

    Kamala Harris, District Attorney for San Francisco, launched Back on Track 2009

    [The program has] Been adopted by the National District Attorneys Association as a model program.

    Kamala Harris Will Legalize recreational marijuana 2024 official campaign announcement

    • Cleggory@lemmy.world
      45·
      6 days ago

      Why spout obvious lies when Google exists? There are many examples of Harris fighting to keep now-overturned convincts imprisoned as well, need I go on?

      “Defiance of the federal court order requiring the reduction of the California prisoner population is reminiscent of the Southern governors of the 1950s declaring their defiance of federal court desegregation orders,” Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley Law School, told NPR at the time. “Both were misguided efforts to undermine enforcement of the Constitution.” Added Barry Krisberg, longtime president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, “The legal arguments that the state is putting forward make no sense.”

      https://prospect.org/justice/how-kamala-harris-fought-to-keep-nonviolent-prisoners-locked-up/