NEW YORK, CMC – A day after Caribbean-American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for President of the US, a significant Caribbean-American Democratic political membership in Brooklyn, New York, of which Clarke serves as an govt member, has thrown its full assist behind Harris’s bid for the presidency.
The Rt. Rev. Silveta A. Hamilton-Gonzales, the Jamaican-born interim president of the Progressive Democrats Political Affiliation (PDPA) and founding father of the Brooklyn-based QKingdom Ministries, Inc., advised the Caribbean Media Company (CMC) completely that her membership has no hesitancy in endorsing Harris.
For over 4 a long time, PDPA was chaired by the matriarch and President Emeritus Dr. Una S. T. Clarke, Congresswoman Clarke’s Jamaican-born mom and former New York Metropolis Council Member, the primary ever Caribbean-born girl elected to the Metropolis Council.
“PDPA is within the marketing campaign with Vice President Kamala Harris,” mentioned Rev. Hamilton-Gonzales. “On this pivotal historic second, PDPA endorses Vice President Kamala Harris as the subsequent president of the US of America.
“This Brooklyn, New York political membership is in alignment along with her essential insurance policies that resonated with immigrants,” added Rev. Hamilton-Gonzales, stating that, throughout her 2020 presidential run, Harris’s “progressive stances on immigration had been one of many central focuses of Caribbean Individuals.
“Vice President Harris wished immigrants who had been within the nation illegally to be eligible for presidency healthcare,” she continued. “This coverage is designed to save lots of human lives.
“Simply as necessary to PDPA is the intersectionality that immigrants struggled with for years, however we embraced,” Bishop Hamilton-Gonzales mentioned. “Now, Vice President Harris’ id is forcing the nation to have interaction within the advanced dialog concerning the nuances of race and ethnicity which have usually been left intentionally ignored. PDPA is a consultant of range.”
She mentioned Central Brooklyn, “a potpourri of ethnicity, faith, and tradition, has been the blueprint in anticipation for this dynamic, progressive Vice President Harris’ motion – a second that can proceed to help the evolution of America right into a extra democratic, progressive, inclusive nation, an ideal Union.”
Hamilton-Gonzales additionally mentioned that Congresswoman Clarke is “the image of a progressive motion that has been touring all through Central Brooklyn for many years and continues to remodel the communities for a second resembling this.”
She mentioned the Clarkes’ mother-daughter duo “have been on the cusps of the political transformation within the Democratic Get together and, by extension, the gatekeepers for Chisholm’s voice of fact to energy.”
The daughter of Barbadian and Guyanese immigrants, the late congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, was the primary girl to hunt the Democratic Get together nomination for President of the US.
Hamilton-Gonzales famous that the Clarkes are “robust supporters within the presidential marketing campaign with Vice President Kamala Harris.
“They’ve constructed an aura of political independence by their audacity for change,” she mentioned. “It’s apparent that Vice President Kamala Harris, the primary Black girl to be the Democratic Get together’s nominee for president, will probably be strengthened by their legacy.
“From the inception of its existence, PDPA turned the voice of the unvoiced individuals via Dr. Clarke’s unimaginable management and the elected officers nurtured by her exceptional counsel and political expertise,” Rev. Hamilton-Gonzales added. “Her profound imaginative and prescient, religion, and professionalism stay influential and inspirational for future political generations.
“Now, on this unprecedented second in America’s historical past, her contributions are captured and inextricably certain to this new exuberant democracy and political actuality,” she continued.
In endorsing Harris on Thursday, Congresswoman Clarke mentioned she has had “the privilege of figuring out” her “for a few years and dealing alongside her on a number of points near our hearts throughout her tenure in the US Senate.
“However properly earlier than my first alternative to take action, I had already heard a lot on her distinguished character and the dignity with which she carries herself, in addition to, in fact, our widespread Jamaican heritage,” mentioned Clarke, who represents the predominantly Caribbean ninth Congressional District in Brooklyn.
“But, it was not till I stood by her aspect and felt the complete breadth of her power and keenness that it turned clear to me that she is a person who actually embodies the ethos of Caribbean resilience that defines our tradition and group,” added Clarke, first vice chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). “She is a girl who has been pushed again but nonetheless pushes ahead.”
The congresswoman mentioned Harris’s “persevering spirit ” has so profoundly resonated with Caribbean Individuals and the American individuals.
“As America faces this nice inflection level, and its individuals start to deliberate on their selection that can determine the trail our nation takes within the a long time forward, there is no such thing as a doubt in my thoughts that Vice President Kamala Harris is the chief we have to steer us via this pivotal motion, and in the direction of the longer term, so many are relying on,” mentioned Clarke about Harris, whose father is retired Jamaican-born economist Dr. Donald Harris.
Clarke described Harris as “a joyful warrior, unafraid to reject hate and unapologetic of who she is and what her story says.
“I’ll take nice pleasure in casting my poll in her title come November, and I’m immensely grateful that she may have offered myself and tens of hundreds of thousands extra Individuals the prospect to play our half within the historical past she is creating,” she mentioned.
Earlier this week, a newly fashioned digital group referred to as Caribbean Individuals United in Assist of Kamala Harris for President started strongly pushing for the election of the primary Caribbean-American Vice President in the US.
The group’s Steering Committee, which was fashioned on July 22, includes members who’re primarily New York residents.
The seven-member Committee includes former New York Metropolis Council Member Una S.T. Clarke, Congresswoman Clarke’s mom; New York State Senator Kevin Parker, consultant for the predominantly Caribbean twenty first Senate District in Brooklyn; Former Suffolk County, Lengthy Island legislator Jacqueline Gordon-Davy; school administrator and group activist Sherrill-Ann Mason; educators and group activists Martin Felix and Fadhilika Atiba-Weza; and political advisor Ernest McD. Skinner.
Dr. Clarke advised CMC that Harris is “competent and has the {qualifications} for the place.
“I really feel assured that she will be able to win,” mentioned the trail-blazing Clarke, an elected New York Metropolis delegate to the Democratic Conference in Chicago subsequent week. “It turns into simpler once we all put our heads and hearts collectively.
“I didn’t go into politics for politics’ sake however to make a distinction for all individuals,” she added. “Kamala Harris has immigrant roots. All immigrants, together with Caribbean-Individuals, ought to assist and vote for her, if they will, within the Presidential Elections.”
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