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Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris sat with journalists from the National

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Speaker 1: Association of Black Journalists yesterday in Philly, the nadj UH.

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Speaker 1: The extended conversation with the journalists was focused on Kamala's

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Speaker 1: efforts to appeal to black men while she's campaign campaigning.

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Speaker 1: Uh VP. Harris said, I think it's very important to

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Speaker 1: not operate from the assumption that black men are in

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Speaker 1: anybody's pocket. Black men are like any other voting group.

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Speaker 1: You got to earn their vote. So I'm working to

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Speaker 1: earn their vote, not assuming I'm gonna have it just

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Speaker 1: because I'm black. Good point, good point, working for their Yeah,

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Speaker 1: she's working for their votes. So Steve, what what is

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Speaker 1: your message? I mean, if you had to say something

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Speaker 1: comic black men right now?

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Speaker 2: Simple to me.

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump Junior came out with the video that says

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Speaker 3: he's amazed how many black men come up to him

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Speaker 3: and say you're my hero. And I'm like, what, really,

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Speaker 3: No man who came up to you? What black dude

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Speaker 3: came up to Donald Trump Jr. And said You're our hero.

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Speaker 3: I've been black longer than most I ain't ever thought it.

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Speaker 2: Tell it about shit.

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Speaker 3: I don't know nobody I know I know a whole

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Speaker 3: lot of black dudes. Matter of fact, most of my

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Speaker 3: friends it's black dude. Most of them, it's black dudes.

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Speaker 3: I ain't hurt not now one of them say Donald

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Speaker 3: Trump Jr.

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Speaker 2: Was their hero.

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Speaker 3: Now, I have also heard Van Jones come out in

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Speaker 3: total and complete support.

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Speaker 2: Of Kamala Harris. Yeah, I'm in complete support.

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Speaker 3: Now I hear some black dudes who border line on

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Speaker 3: the fence. But like she said, you don't belong in

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Speaker 3: anybody's pocket.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, just because I'm black, that doesn't mean you

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Speaker 1: have to vote for me. Dill didn't wasn't in agreement

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Speaker 1: with VP Harris at first, he said that, he said that,

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Speaker 1: he apologized publicly, and now he's yeah, he did absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Look I want us to be in support of her. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: just on some.

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Speaker 3: Basic levels, Yes, just on some basic levels.

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Speaker 2: Let's just talk about what the option is here in

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Speaker 2: this election.

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Speaker 3: Would you rather your children look up in the White

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Speaker 3: House and see her or him?

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Speaker 2: Just this basics?

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Speaker 3: What would matter most to your family if they looked

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Speaker 3: up in the White House and saw her or him?

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Speaker 3: How do you explain to your children and your grandchildren

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Speaker 3: you voting for a man with thirty old felony convictions, assault,

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Speaker 3: blatant racist acts towards black people, blatant. Yeah, so now

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Speaker 3: listen to me. That alone says she's a she's just

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Speaker 3: a more decent person. I was watching this cat out

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Speaker 3: came across my feet. Applies Times was on here talking

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Speaker 3: about and he made so much sense.

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Speaker 2: Now he cuts through the whole thing, which was really

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Speaker 2: the draw for me. I was, man, this.

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Speaker 3: Right here, just tell me how this blank gonna be

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Speaker 3: in the whack? And you know, I was that was

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Speaker 3: that and I felt that. But yeah, man, she's appealing

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Speaker 3: for the vote, and I'm appealing to brothers to get

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Speaker 3: out to the polls and let's do our job for decency,

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Speaker 3: for just what it would mean for us, not only

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Speaker 3: as a country, but for just us as a people.

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Speaker 3: The representation that it sins, the message that it sins.

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Speaker 3: It's just a better she is just a better person, period.

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Speaker 3: Because if you are us and we don't vote, it's

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Speaker 3: a vote for him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, true, that's true. Yes, because I'm trumpsys man.

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Speaker 3: They go into the Pope, they confessed, all them militia groups,

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Speaker 3: all them proud boys, skin heads, they showing up because

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Speaker 3: that's they got.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well all right, she's a guy coming up

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Speaker 1: next it is a nephew and the prank phone call

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Speaker 1: for today.

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