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Vice President Kamala Harris this week sounded an alarm for a woman’s right to choose and the ability to vote against gun violence, as she urged members of the NAACP’s national convention in Atlantic City to protect hard-fought constitutional guarantees she warned are now being eroded.
“Freedom and liberty and democracy are on the ballot, and we have to make sure our voices are heard,” she said, in a speech clearly aimed at laying out what was at stake in the coming 2022 midterm elections.
The vice president’s speech was part of an effort to highlight the accomplishments of President Joe Biden’s administration over the past two years. Harris, the first woman and first person of color to serve as vice president, spoke of economic inequities that still fall disproportionately on Black communities and women.
“We see and are prepared to address the disparities that are holding so many people back in our nation — disparities that we see in education, in economic opportunity, in housing, healthcare, and more,” she said.
She recalled a recent funeral she attended in Buffalo for a grandmother gunned down amid a racist mass shooting that killed 10 people and injured three others at a supermarket. She spoke of a visit she made to Highland Park in Illinois, “where there were strollers and lawn chairs were scattered up and down the street where there was supposed to be a parade.”
