-I think the fact that we have the first black-woman VP
is historic.
-I am incredibly honored by this responsibility,
and I'm ready to get to work.
-As someone who has been a part of the movement
to improve the lives of black people,
especially black people who have impacted
by policing and incarceration,
Senator Kamala Harris has a complicated history.
I think we can call for Biden and Harris
to be challenged for their past
while also being the cheerleaders for them
to win the election November 3rd.
There are so many reasons why we must beat Trump.
We're living under a government that has completely neglected
and abused the people who live
in this country and around the world.
-It's going to disappear.
One day -- it's like a miracle --
it will disappear.
-He has marginalized, attacked, neglected,
and abused almost every single group in this country,
and our work to defeat Trump also helps us
defeat the White supremacists that he has galvanized.
-I watched those very closely,
much more closely than you people watched it,
and you have, uh --
y-you had a group on one side that was bad,
and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent.
[shouting, tires screeching]
-Former Vice President Biden,
he was the architect of the crime bill.
He created a democratic establishment
that was more tough on crime,
almost, than the Republican party.
-In a nutshell, the president's plan doesn't include
enough police officers to catch the violent thugs,
and not enough prison cells to put them away for a long time.
-He was a big proponent of the idea that young, black,
and brown children were super predators.
-And, Madam President, we have predators on our streets.
-Senator Kamala Harris has a complicated history.
-When she was the AG of California,
she was also tough on crime.
She did make some reforms around reentry.
She has stayed committed to challenging Trump.
She has stayed committed to really being more expansive
in her views around the criminal justice system.
Shows me that she's grown since her days
of being the AG of the state of California.
I do think that the Biden campaign chose her
because our movement pushed for a black-woman VP.
It could have been Amy Klobuchar.
Let's remember.
Does that mean that when Joe Biden becomes a president
and Senator Kamala Harris
becomes a vice president that we stop fighting
and working for the change we believe in?
Absolutely not.
It means we fight even more.
Just a month ago, the Movement for Black Lives launched
the BREATHE Act, and the BREATHE
Act is federal legislation that looks at,
how do we divest away from punishment,
and how do we invest in mental healthcare, public education,
adequate access to housing?
We want the Biden-Harris ticket to endorse the BREATHE Act.
We want them to show up not just in saying
the words that black lives matter,
but we want them to prove that black lives matter.
We're really pushing for the DNC
to listen to the people of the community.
It's powerful to see so many people galvanize
behind the three words "black lives matter."
-Black lives! -Matter!
[crowd cheering, horn honking]
-It's even more powerful when people show up
and prove that black lives matter,
when I see legislation changing in cities and counties
and states in the nation because they're listening
to the movement and listening to the community.
-We won't forget! -Trayvon!
-I can't breathe! I can't breathe!
-When we started this movement seven years ago,
we were really clear that we wanted it
to get bigger than we can ever imagine.
We needed to transform the system culturally,
economically, and politically,
and we are doing it and we will continue doing it,
no matter who ends up being the president in November.
I think the reason
why our movement has been incredibly effective
is because we have not relied on one single leader
to be the voice box for the community.
Nobody is wedded to one movement or one person.
We're all deeply, deeply moved by freedom.
That's what we want.