Cornel West Announces Fellow Academic and BLMer Melina Abdullah As Running Mate | EURweb

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : "He and his wife, Annahita, asked and immediately my heart just soared," she said.
60% : I will never step back from saying we must end state-sanctioned violence against Black people and work towards Black freedom," she said.
60% : People within Black Lives Matter, my prayer and hope is that they'll come with us.
56% : "Abdullah downplayed concerns that her affiliation with Black Lives Matter would potentially hurt West's campaign, saying that her experience organizing local chapters around the country may be an asset.
55% : But the agenda, the Black Lives Matter agenda of ending state-sanctioned violence, of building a world where our children and our people can live and walk freely, comes with me into this race.
49% : "Abdullah, who graduated from Howard University with a degree in African American Studies before earning a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Southern California, said she "will never step away from" Black Lives Matter Grassroots, a branch of the movement that helps organize local Black Lives Matter groups across the country.
44% : "West's selection of Abdullah, a Muslim Black woman and a member of the board of directors for Black Lives Matter Grassroots, could further advance his outreach to Muslim Americans and Black Americans disenchanted with President Joe Biden.
41% : "Despite Cornel West announcing a running mate, our view remains the same: only two candidates have a path to 270 electoral votes, President Biden and Donald Trump," DNC spokesperson Matt Corridoni told CNN in a statement.
37% : "The stakes are high and we know this is going to be a close election - that's why a vote for any third party candidate is a vote for Donald Trump.

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